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    trading movies

    "Trader" A documentary about a day in the life of Paul Tudor Jones. Blockbuster had it a few years ago.
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    Making deposits

    As of May 15th, due to some rule changes following the USA Patriot Act, futures brokers have tightened the rules regarding the ownership of funds. I can only accept funds which are directly titled to a customer account of the same name. If someone deposits funds in an account named to...
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    Making deposits

    Nkhoi, A visa check has the same problems as direct visa funds. Ownership of funds. Rules for accepting money for futures trading are pretty strict.
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    broker

    Arizona, Couple of questions. How do you plan to access your account and place your trades? Will you need any special services? Your volume of 3-10 contracts, to be honest if that's your volume for the whole summer, it wouldn't be worth someone's time to do the paperwork to open the...
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    When to quit?

    If you had a loss level, stick to it. It's part of trading discipline. Shut down til the next tax year and spend the time studying the markets. They'll still be here when you're ready to try to learn actual vs paper trading again.
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    Making deposits

    Marrol, Visa would not be accepted because technically that is Visa's money that would be being deposited into the account. It's against the rules for me to accept funds from one entity on behalf of another entity. It's not a matter of a percentage fee as was suggested. If that were the...
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    Making deposits

    No. There is an issue of ownership of money. These days funding is normally done by individual check, or bank wires.
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    Self Clearing Firms

    All brokers bad bad bad Try steal poor me money all time Me not need pay for anything Me find broker who work for free Me not worry they go belly up Me know it costs quarter pick up phone Me only want pay quarter Come on. Maybe Don's response was a little flip but degenerating into this...
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    Bad hair day/metals

    Hello fellow lunat.... I mean metals traders, Today's feature was large fund selling following yesterday's technical failure. Expect another two days of fund selling to pressure the gold and silver. Typically, fund action in the physical commodities lasts three days with today being day one...
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    RISK and futures

    $100,000 worth of stuff, be it stock, bushels of corn, or sewer covers, will fluctuate in price like $100,000 worth of stuff. The main reason futures are considered high risk investing is the amount of leverage (and risk) you are allowed to take on. You can trade $100,000 worth of corn and...
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    Self Clearing and Pricing

    Funny thread. Instead of Don & Def being the only ones taking heat for being in business, I figure I probably deserve a little too. I agree that everything in the financial business should be free. Of course we'll get exactly what we pay for. Why isn't anyone asking what the electricity...
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    You call this work?

    If someone thinks trading is not work, they've never done it before. Let them think what they wish.
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    Options Firms hiring traders

    It's called "Upstairs" because the trading floors usually occupy the lower floors of the building and when you need to visit your clearing house you are actually going upstairs from the trading floor.
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    Can you buy "the index"?

    thereuare, Commissions are charged per contract traded. Also, I didn't realize I had only sent one day of data. I had thought I was sending the complete data files. I have a system glitch that I won't be able to fix til monday.
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    Can you buy "the index"?

    They should have come through as .prn files. Did they not?
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    Can you buy "the index"?

    thereuare, INITIAL MAINTENANCE MULTIPLIER SP $19,687 $15,750 $250 X INDEX ES $3,937 $3,150 $50 X INDEX NQ $19,500 $15,600 $100 X INDEX EN $3,900 $3,120 $20 X INDEX I have the last few months of data, but there will be a few gaps from the places where I...
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    Can you buy "the index"?

    Basis risk in the stock indices is purely a function of interest rates. With interest rates as low as they are I would consider it to be an insignificant factor. All three choices mentioned could be valid, tracking stocks, futures, or baskets. I used to do arbitrage in the Nasdaq futures vs...
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    Trading halt.

    Today there will be a two minute halt in trading in U. S. equities and indices, including electronic markets, from 9:29 to 9:31 C.D.T to commemorate the closing of recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site from September 11th. Matthew Shelley
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    question about foreign currency trading

    roumeo, What's your background, and why did you get an interview if you know nothing about the job?
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