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    What's your favorite trading quote of all time?

    "My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil." -- J. Paul Getty Not a trading quote per se, but just as appropriate.
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    canadian income trusts to be taxed

    Is Canadian withholding and the foreign tax credit the only tax implications facing US based investors? I won't calculate depletion again for a 30% yield. (well, maybe)
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    Feasting on Amaranth's portfolio

    Notice the massive volume spike in many of their holdings last friday a.m. Would that be their broker/dealers providing liquidity? If so, why wouldn't they have been handled as private transactions?
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    Quitting SMOKING!!!!

    I dunno, but for me there are two sides of the coin to deal with. The physical part is the easy part. You have patches, gum, whatever to help with the physical withdrawal. Patches, by the way, give you the most vivid dreams when you leave them on at night. The mental part is the hard part...
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    Will they please stop publishing great books!

    If you buy a lot of books, you may find something worthwhile at Edward R. Hamilton. I have purchased a literal ton of books from him over the years.
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    Deep Impact at the End of May 2006

    I was planning family camping trip in the Lincoln National Forest in southern New Mexico for the latter part of June. When I go to the forest service website to find campgrounds and such I find that the entire Lincoln National Forest has been closed down due to extreme fire danger - no access...
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    College

    University of Missouri - Columbia is well known for their journalism school.
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    friday US equity action

    When I find both Wheeling-Pittsburgh and Broadcom on the most percentage gainers list, tells me that this is an interesting market. Don't know and don't care if it's a bull market or bear market, but it's an interesting market -- and there are trades to be made.
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    Closed-end Fund Income Investing

    Timely subject for me, don't know how I missed this thread before. I picked up some CIK - CS Asset Mgmt Income Fund price $3.81 disc. -10.17% yield 9.40% just yesterday. I wasn't thinking of tax loss selling when looking at their chart...
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    Earnings Calendar?

    earnings.com
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    Best Retailers to short now till EOY?

    Missed out on shorting ARO AEOS ANF and BEBE from early July. URBN is one apparel retailer that still comes up on my short screens.
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    Career advice for bank robbers and the myth of buy and hold investing

    What you have exposed here is that by being selective with the data you use you can pretty much prove anything you want. A buy and hold investor would have been reinvesting dividends throughout. If you had a chart for the same time period that includes that power of compounding -- even...
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    Margin Call on an IB IRA account (Need Suggestions)

    I hope developer17 provides an update on this situation. It seems to me that the IRA account could not go negative. The loss on liquidation wipes out all cash and equity in the account and the account ceases to exist. The excess loss becomes a "separate" matter between developer and IB...
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