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Just bought 22,000 shares of C average fill of $3.96 Holding for up to 5 years. Hoping to net a cool million. ~$45 share. Let's see how this does compared to active trading.

I recommend looking at the craigslist casual encounters section for your city.

Does anyone trade the YM or ES outside of standard cash session market hours? Is there less manipulation from the algos outside of the cash market hours?

Robert, Thank you for your thoughts. I have followed your trading in the P/L for the past year or so. While the whole Vegas thing is enticing, I'm not that type of gambling man - although some here on ET might argue my odds of success at the roulette wheel are better than trading! I'll...

Oh, cmon :p

Thanks all for the great feedback so far, especially from those that don't post much.

Trading is not a diversion. I am very risk adverse which is what makes the decision hard. I will self admit that I have some fear of failure. I have confidence that I don't have many of the delusions many have approaching trading but still, it is a tough endeavor. I am largely...

This is what I am thinking too. Just not sure if there is something I am overlooking.

I have contemplated an MBA and determined it is not a good fit for me. I am not interested in working for someone else or in a corporate environment. There are too many MBAs, the degree is a commodity now except for maybe the best students in the very top schools. I don't see any sense in...

My initial response is to stay in Chicago and continue working and trade on the side. She really doesn't want a LD relationship while in Med School and she knows that there isn't really anything for me in Michigan professionally for the 4 years she is in school. We are coming back to Chicago...

B.S. in Business from University of Illinois Been working for 5 years in project management related work

Hi all, I have a unique situation I would like some unbiased advice on. I know that is in short supply around here. I'm 26 and engaged to a girl that will be attending a top rated D.O. program medical school. She is going to become an oncologist. In doing so, it will require us to move...

Great thread. Probably one of the few with at least some capital to trade with on this site. Looking forward to your journal.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=34992 A group of Alaron Trading Co. creditors are trying to force the Chicago-based futures broker into bankruptcy protection, saying they are owed more than $5 million. Alan Freeman, a broker from Chicago; Barry Hirsch, a broker from...

+1

Perhaps Microsoft should lay off the division that creates viruses for the purpose of selling anti-virus software instead.

You can always be waiting for things just about to come out or within a few months. Just pull the trigger on something already

greatly reduces your chance of financial instability and increases your chance at finding long term success in a profitable business venture.

No, a loser is those who pay their bills on time and save. They will lose to inflation and to bail out those without responsibility. Not to mention, this is an excellent customer for the bank. Losers never overdraw or carry balances. They can't afford to have those deadbeats as customers.

44 percent of Chicagoans have just one month cash cushion Chicago Sun-Times July 22, 2009 In the face of rising unemployment, Chicagoans have little financial cushion if they lose their jobs, said a survey released Tuesday by Country Financial. Forty-four percent of survey respondents...