Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
11-26-2007, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 844
Re: Crazy Women! Film and TV characters
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This is a colorful actress who played alot of very strange characters.
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Heh. Karen Black! When I saw this thread my answer was gonna be Karen Black in almost...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-15-2007, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 635
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-14-2007, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 331
Re: buying options straddles
"is there any downside to this?"
It's called "time decay". Options erode in value over time. If the underlying instrument doesn't move much you can get anhilated. Often you will need a very...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-13-2007, 03:30 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 635
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-13-2007, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 635
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-25-2007, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living
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All the traders traded with the SAME counterparts and other traders from competing firms for the most part day in day out.
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Don't know exactly but they probably have...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-25-2007, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-23-2007, 04:00 PM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living
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can you give some examples of particular trades of this type that you have made in the past?
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Okay, here's a dead arb. When the Crude Oil delivery contract first...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-09-2007, 09:15 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 134
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-09-2007, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 134
Re: LOL_Niederhofferaments
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I understand you're a scalper. I've heard you guys take high-probability trades but get a few pretty sick outlyers go against your positions. You must have a very strict and conservative...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-08-2007, 09:01 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 134
Re: LOL_Niederhofferaments
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The S&P500 futures contract is known as 'the rocket' for being very volatile - but its not.
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The S&Ps are tame puppies compared to the Russell 2000 and Midcap and if you...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-07-2007, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living
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I'm sure this is pretty firm specific but, how many hours per week does a first year trader work?
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Typically from open to close. I know a lot of guys that got into...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-06-2007, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living
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how good at math to you have to be?
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Depends on the kind of trading. Heavy arb stuff you should be good at math. For market making in options you need the ability to...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-05-2007, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 202
Re: \"Lost\" Albums
An oldie but a goodie most of the kids here probably have never heard of.
A Scratch in the Sky - The Cryan Shames
This is a near perfect album from the late 60's. I'm guessing 1967. The Cryan...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-05-2007, 10:11 PM
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Replies: 129
Views: 465
Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living
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So for a COMPLETE newb, what can I do now to prepare for this moment?
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It depends? Keep reading and learning. I come from a market maker environment. There are lots...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-03-2007, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 202
Re: Style of Trading
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have you tried to backward test these systems if they wouldve worked in the past? can you say how risky these systems are and if it quite surely works or you just got lucky?
this would...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-03-2007, 09:27 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 202
Re: Style of Trading
For daytrading/market making I trade noise. I take a highly correlated spread and fade the fluctuations and hope it doesn't break out on me. I will also sometimes trade short term flucuations on...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
10-02-2007, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 386
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-02-2007, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 111
Views: 420
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-29-2007, 05:34 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 445
Re: Official Big Lebowski Thread
I love this movie but I still like Raising Arizona a little bit better. Both definitely reward you for repeat veiwings. The one thing about it I didn't really like was the dream sequence. It felt...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-29-2007, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 75
Re: Technical analysis software
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CQG is the best charting/TA software out there but expensive
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Yeah. I use CQG and it's strongest aspect is that their data is extremely clean and fast. Years ago I...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-28-2007, 12:36 PM
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Replies: 91
Views: 369
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-28-2007, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 380
Views: 2,603
Re: TV Wednesday
Yeah the Office was very disappointing last night.
Best new show I have seen so far this season is Reaper. It's pretty funny and interesting in an offbeat kind of way although I'm not sure if it...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
09-27-2007, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 488
Re: Decisions to join or not join the military
I joined the Navy right out of college. Partly because the job market and economy at the time (1975) sucked pretty bad and partly because I wanted to serve my country and see the world. And I most...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-25-2007, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 86
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