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    nobody mentions FEB 2013 was 236,000 jobs

    Nothing makes much sense.
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    Harry Reid says glad markets closed Monday

    Because no deal. But he is mistaken, the market is actually open on Monday. So Reid is saying the markets should fall basically. And if Bernanke has the banking holiday off, maybe there will be no buyer for once? Will shorts get paid? The dow went up 420 on hopes of a deal. Any...
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    prop vs. retail brokers

    Everyone who is a trader, at some point becomes a day trader from time to time too. Even if right now you think in terms of longer term swing trades. There will be times when you want to join in the action. You'll see key reversal, news or other juicy setups, and then having the 30-1 margin...
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    prop vs. retail brokers

    10-1 or 15-1 leverage intraday is a must for pairs trading and really a must for making a six figure living unless you have 600k+ figure account already. Even if you don't consider yourself a day trader now, once you start devoting full time to trading, you will probably start seeing...
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    Why did Japan bond yield spike up when Japan's monetary easing was announced?

    When your currency is falling 2% a week, the bigger question is why don't bond rates rise to say 5-10%. The yen just went from 80 to 100. a 25% loss. but yet people want to still buy japanese bonds at under 1%. I would want 10% to own one of those. We are in a huge soverign credit...
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    Home prices have really gone up the last few months.

    Seems like its mostly California and Arizona and Vegas that are up alot. There is nothing going on at all in the 2 places i own homes. Tallahassee,fl and Asheville NC. Nothing. I think its where these hedge funds went in and bought ever home foresale in the bubble markets is where prices...
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    Tepper Top this market Down

    The market has gotten the YEN so low, it can easily have a move from 101.80 to 98.80 which will be used as excuse to shake tree of all these johny come latelyies to the Nikkei. 9000 to 15000, then past 5 days on TV i've heard person after person come out and recomend Japan. Where were they up...
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    Tepper Top this market Down

    We need more sellers. Look at the key stuff, crude aapl SLB gold. would like to see some banks join in.
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    Why is there no inflation?

    Inflation is like a market. There are bears and bulls. We are in a bear market for inflation right now. Though the fundamentals could be there for a bull, the price action just hasn't materialized yet. Inflation could be similar to BBY at $12. The buisness wasn't that bad, but the market...
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    How you deal with the Stress and Anxiety?

    Yes, it does age your body considerably. Really there is no way to prevent the insane stress. To be a successful full time trader, you probably need to sit in front of the computer for at least 8 or 9 hours a day. I probably do more like 11 hours a day during the trading week in front of the...
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    don't bother watching them tonight

    The japanese will be trading in their yen and buying the s&p futures all night long. Maybe after the up open that is coming in the morning, we can get a couple red bars. Good luck.
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    My over 6-year trading experience in a nutshell

    I'm one of the few successful traders that made it. Having many huge (7 figure) years over the last 10 years. But since 2007 I have had some down years to go with up years. And I think my high water mark was in 2007. I got almost back to that high water mark after 2009-2010 big run. But had...
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    XHB is cruising for a bruising

    This is silly season, funds marking up last years winners. I used to trade builders at 1.5 times book and 6 PE's in 2003 and 2004 when the bubble was just kicking in to gear. Now the co's have worse balance sheets, worse land positions, worse demographics, worse homeownship trends, and wall...
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    senate bill raised payroll taxes 2%

    Were people expecting this? I was surprised by this today, i hadn't heard that they were going to let it go back up. This will be a big hit to peoples pay checks.
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    Mini Apocalypse 2012 flash crash in the ES

    I saw -41 on my screen, but then it popped back to -31 and -28 faster than i could see.
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    There will be presents under shorts Tree!

    I saw -41 for a second. Wow.
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    There will be presents under shorts Tree!

    CNBC breaking in on 8pm Walmart Documentary means one thing. Panic.
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    how many fiscal cliff rallies can there be?

    Is there a a maximum number of fiscal cliff rallies that I can expect? I'd like to know so i can get short when we hit that number. I'm counting 6 so far since 1355 s&p.
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    Silver price debate

    I think it might be all about india. India controls the gold price. And silver is mostly a function of the gold price. I.E. India controls the silver price. Its a national past time in India to collect gold. Instead of a savings account, they will buy little 1 gram pieces of gold or...
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    Why is HOV getting diluted in 2012?

    The motivation is that they are insolvent with negative 500 million shareholder equity. So they sell more shares whenever possible to stay in business. more or less. The only reason the stock is over $2 share is because people love to believe that maybe the lowest priced home building stock...
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