During this week, we saw a 158 year old investment bank file for Ch. 11, another ended it’s 94 years of independence, America’s biggest insurer getting bailed out and entering the federal conservatorship, gold making it’s biggest 1 day move in history, the credit crisis spread outside the financial industry and a huge panic in [...]

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Damn. The Ides of March. I HATE this day, not because I’m a big Julius Ceasar fan, but because of what’s this day inevitably brings - April 15th.
This post will not mean much to most of you, but I’ve FINALLY found something that makes sense for K-1’s. I’m not sure why the hell my firm [...]

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I’m so excited about about going into the office tomorrow and seeing what the market will do, I’m not too sure if I can sleep tonight… Here’s what the international market did yesterday and maybe a bit of a preview tomorrow morning:

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Wow. -416.02. This is BY FAR the craziest thing I’ve ever seen at work, especially the massive sell off around 2pm. I remember thinking around lunch time that today’s sell off is probably done and I thought about taking my money and going home. But that 10-15 minutes from 1:55 to 2:10 (central) was INSANE. [...]

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Not that I’m recommending anyone to take their money and “gamble” in the market, but CNBC has been talking about this ALL day. So I figured that some of you might be interested, Zecco.com is a new discount brokers that’s offering free (commission-free) trades to their customers. Now I have to admit that I’m always [...]

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It’s been a few days, but I didn’t want to say anything until it actually materialized. Since now that April is officially over, I can F-I-N-A-L-L-Y say that I’ve earned my first paycheck. I’ve managed to dig myself a nice little whole, but as Ice-T said, “It ain’t about the come up, it’s about the [...]

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Remember my series 7 fiasco? Just when I thought failing a test by 1 single question is bad, I think I managed to find something to make it worse:
I am writing to inform you of a scoring issue that affected the outcome of the Series 7 examination administered to you on March 8, 2005. NASD [...]

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This week’s been awful. Low volume, slow movement. With today being the last trading day of 2005, CNBC spent about 10 minutes talking about if the Houston Texans should try to lose the game to get Reggie Bush.
Needless to say, today’s going to be bloody awful. I’ve been leaving the office early the last two [...]

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What the hell is wrong with me?!? ’tis the day before Christmas Eve, and I’ve never been this exitced about going into work. I think mostly it’s because no one will be there. And I’m hoping that there’ll be huge 95 cent crosses that come across my tickers.
I’m having a very difficult time making [...]

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It’s been a rough week trading, a lot of dumb (and VERY costly) mistakes. This is what I look like this week in there:

LOL. Don’t worry, I think I’ll live. =)

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