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    trading from Phuket

    thanks for the helpful replies. I'm only going to be there a week so I won't be getting my own line. I guess my query was more about whether the hotels wifi or cafes internet was good enough to trade from. regards
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    trading from Phuket

    Hello, Has anyone ever traded from Phuket? Is the connection good? Any input appreciated. Thanks.
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    Economics books

    Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard is the best book for beginners in economics. It starts with very simple concepts and then builds from there.
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    Vancouver Real Estate - Would you Buy?

    Vancouver's real estate market is supported by the billion dollar drug trade. On a smaller scale, it is like Miami in the cocaine days when people would buy up properties with cash just to park their money somewhere. We should see a pullback but I don't think there will be a collapse like in...
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    Greece's Debt Crisis - How Does This Happen?

    at its simplest greece's problem is too many leeches (public sector) and not enough producers (private sector).
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    Wall St. 2 "Money never sleeps" trailer

    read the wall street journal???? it's not 1950. speed dial bloomberg? on his rotary phone? why on earth would you phone bloomberg? you can tell by how someone speaks if they know the game and leboeuf clearly DOES NOT. it's not a big deal of course, I wouldn't expect him to know anything...
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    Wall St. 2 "Money never sleeps" trailer

    no way lebouef traded a live account from 20k to 300k. if he did anything, it was a paper account.
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    Is any part of your trading based on intuition?

    There is an exchange in Rounders which I feel is relevant: Mike McD: "I'm gonna call you or else I won't respect myself tomorrow morning." Teddy KGB: "Respect is all you have left in the morning." In trading, intuition is all you have left in the morning. All the best traders keep it...
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    The Latest Trend: Suing Collection Agencies

    wow, great read.
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    Why some traders are bitching about the lack of volatility?

    there are literally no pullbacks in this market. it is pure ground and pound. there used to be deep pullbacks but now the market always dies at the high and then after a while grinds higher. for individual stocks, low volume combined with sub pennying makes trading a lot more difficult. like...
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    bypassing the NBBO

    Greetings, Is there anyway to bypass the best bid or offer? for eg. let's say the offer is 12.60 on NSDQ. Could I using a different ECN trade above the 12.6 without touching the 12.60 offer? I know generally you are not allowed to do this and you are always supposed to hit the...
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    execution speed from trading overseas

    thanks for the replies.
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    execution speed from trading overseas

    Hello, Does anyone have any experience trading NYSE or Nasdaq from Asia? I heard that the execution is significantly slower if you are trading from China than if you were trading from the US. Any experiences people have trading from far away, anywhere, not just Asia, would be appreciated. I...
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    Calculating the real value to society of different professions

    by any legitimate standard bureaucrats and politicians would have to be at the absolute bottom. their value to society is not only nil but actually negative.
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    money of the prop firm

    It is very easy to get huge BP as long as it is intraday. You can get enormous BP at places like Swift, Title and WTS with tiny bank but overnight positions are not allowed.
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    If you buy corporate bonds now, are they likely to be worth more in the next panic?

    haha the "panic" is likely to be caused by some type of corporate bond default or sovereign debt default. corporate bonds are one of the last places you will want to be. short term US tresuries is where you want to be.
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