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    If you want to fail as a trader, study TA

    Sometimes you get what you pay for. Inexpensive can translate into hugely expensive. Just wait until you make your first error or have a technical problem on your end and need to get someone on the phone. Your minimum commission broker will suddenly become very expensive. I have no...
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    If you want to fail as a trader, study TA

    "stuff like the current trend, important price levels, narrow & wide bars, etc, etc, etc.." Isn't that what charts illustrate?
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    CTA Startup

    All the information is available at the NFA site. You can download the guides. But you will have to read them yourself. For now, you might want to take a look at this sample performance calculator...
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    software recommendations

    Well....any charting software will show those simple patters. It is for you to eyeball the patterns. If you are talking about a sw program that points out the patterns, that is a very different thing. It would take some heavy duty programing and even there it is only a tool that sometimes...
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    Victor Niederhoffer in Vogue Magazine??

    Strange....VN daughter is like the father. She measures her self on where she went to school, the fancy feathers of resume accomplishment. Those statements are glaring, and telling of an off sence of values or self worth. She write well and I guess it is an interesting father/daughter...
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    to save the USA and make it great again, people must abolish The FED

    That did not help the Spanish. They had the gold and still lost. But yes, the dollar will continue to go down and down over the next decades. Simply too much debt and too little production.
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    to save the USA and make it great again, people must abolish The FED

    To save the US, the country has to stop living beyond its means and get out of national and household debt. Become a society and economy based on production and not on consumption. Stop imperialism. It will take a while, but unlikely to happen when one looks at the prevailing values of the...
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    Sugar No. 11

    Corn sugar is used in the US, but not in all parts of the world for coke and pepsi. During passover, sugar cane is used is some parts of the country. Corn sugar is getting a bad rap from nutritionist, but at these prices, it is a substitute.
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    Sugar No. 11

    Was visiting the Middle East this week and news reports there are that arrest are being made in Pakistan and India of large suppliers for hoarding sugar. This could be a sentiment flag and the kind of news that comes out near a major top.
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    IFTA Conference in Chicago?

    In October.....who is going? www.ifta2009.com
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    Is USA going into Recession?

    Recession or not (republican or Democrat?) is not the right question and diversions of what political party claims are only that -- diversions from the truth. Never before has the US seen 500K home neighborhoods being abandoned. Yet that is now happening. 300/bu oil will be here sooner than...
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    IB"security"...nearly cost me my job. awful

    Good point. And this incident is nothing new at IB. IB is essentialy an electronic platform, developed by a large and good market maker, also made available for retail and and semi or professional users. While execution might be cheap there is a price for ultra automation -- poor service...
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    IB"security"...nearly cost me my job. awful

    Look, if you want a good to great order platform go to IB. If you need the services of a real broker (which your corporate outfit would need) got to a real broker. Some of the real brokers with services also have excellent execution platforms. If you are managing money for others IB is...
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    Quadriga Superfund - Managed Futures

    It's volatile and in keeping with the nature of trend following strategies, and many of the funds out there that trade this strategy. If you invested in the peak of performance in 2002, you are underwater. If you invested early in 2004, you are underwater with negative annual returns...
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    What Is TradeBolt

    Thank you SteveH.
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    Beans in the teens

    It is a world wide demand driven run on the price. The demand is real. The rest of the gain complex does have a degree of correlation. Beans has been the laggard in the complex.
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    Save the COT report.

    Quick, write a letter to the CFTC to save the COT data re-packaging industry and its vendors. This reporting and resulting data requirement grew out of the Hunt Bros. silver squeeze. Markets and participant make up have changed big time over the last 20-some years. The COT data and...
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    israeli ground invasion this weekend, signal of bottom for the market?

    For almost two generations now Palistinians and Arabs have been successfully demonized by the US media. Once a people is dehumanized it is easy to murder them. Israeli media is even more even-handed than the propaganda machine in the US. Tragically most Americans have no understanding...
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    israeli ground invasion this weekend, signal of bottom for the market?

    It is an unfolding disaster and unlikely to benefit anyone. For those who are old enough, go back to the news 20 years ago as Israel invaded Lebanon previously. The rhetoric (right to defend itself, blah blah blah,) was exactly the same. Nothing changes. The stakes are higher this time...
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    Programming for Traders

    I will buy it! Seriously, there is market for it. Talk to the folks at Wiley's Trader Press Division. (Not sure that is the exact name, but John Wiley and Son's has a division dealing with trading education books. )
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