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    Case Shiller Housing reports

    Download their spreadsheet from their site. They only cover 20 cities, though.
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    What's your favorite trading quote of all time?

    Pay Attention or Pay the Offer
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    Question about health insurance for full time trader

    owned - thanks for the laugh - Let's see if that blowhard returns and offers you an apology.
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    market crash of 1987

    I was an options MM at the time. Some of the rules went out the window. Floor traders who had negative net liq were allowed to continue trading, including opening positions. Prices went far out of whack. I assumed I was wiped out around mid day Monday, but because of the insane...
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    DJ Nymex Exec: Side-By-Side Trade Likely Within 30 Days

    Now we need gold and silver to go electronic.
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    Good Trading Quotable Quotes

    Pay attention or pay the offer.
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    black friday

    Black Friday falls on a Sunday this year. The market will be closed then. Sorry to disapoint.
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    How Bad Would Avian Flu effect the Stock Market? Down 10, 20,30 %

    During various outbreaks of the plague, wealth increased. The living inherit the wealth of the dead. The wealth is divided amongst fewer people, ergo per capita wealth increases.
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    Long Oil at Open

    Don't forget - the October QMs will expire before the storm even gets there.
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    Katrina a 5, Oil at?

    This article explains how Ivan's oil damage was caused by undersea mudslides
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    Katrina a 5, Oil at?

    the QMs open at 7pm EDT. Here are the two relevant questions. Where does the price open? And will it be profitable to buy on the open?
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    CTAs: manage QEPs only?

    Gnome - you're facts aren't quite right. The dollar limit for non-registration applies to CPOs, not CTAs. Non-registered CTAs cannot hold themselves out as CTAs and cannot exceed 15 clients. There is no cap on the amount of funds. Both registered and non-registered CTAs can have clients who...
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    YUAN Revaluation = Bullish!!

    Fo Ma 7 Pa America - everything they buy at Target and Walmart goes up, as well as their adjustable rate mortgage. Oh yeah! It's bullish for the US economy. NOT!
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    How to determine the strength of a trend

    How to determine the strength of a trend ? Hurst Exponent.
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    Congratulation Bob Bright ....

    Bob Bright was on the other side of my first floor broker execution many years ago. Congrats Bob!
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    trap of Statistics?

    As Mr. Bollinger is fond of saying... "Statistics, sufficiently tortured, will confess to anything."
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    Circle T trader looses 12 mil on google

    It sounds like Tobias is looking for a scapegoat for his poor performance. His $250 mil fund is down 'high teens' percent this year. Assuming 18%, that's $45 million and the Goog loss is not much more than a quarter of that. Methinks he doth protest too much.
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    IB & Energy Complex

    It would be nice to see what the market depth is. TWS says I need to subscribe to the feed to see depth, but the account manager says I'm already subscribed and the feed is free.
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    IB & Energy Complex

    The question remains unanswered. Will IB offer the QMs after they move from Globex to Clearport?
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    Ltcm

    In a nutshell. All of LTCM's various bond positions/spreads/derivatives were priced off of the 30-year. Their models never anticipated the govt deciding to stop issuing new 30 year paper. It wasn't something they thought could happen.
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