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    trading as limited company in UK

    No reason not to use your current accountant, he doesn't need specialist knowledge until you start making serious money. Advantage about going through your Ltd while learning is that you can socialise the losses.
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    Corporate Bonds -What have I missed

    Hmmmmmmmm The 12.75's are annual 30/360 vs semi-annual (act/act) for the 7.869's moodys have them as Baa3 vs Ba1 S&P's ratings are BBB vs BB- Fitch have them both at BBB+ But, 1) only £57.2m issued vs £596.65m 2) these are both examples of those issues that were recently subject to a High...
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    Bloomberg / MS Excel Automation

    Why aren't you using YLD_CNV_MID? + why are you going from mid yield to mid price to exposure. Why not just use MID? (pretty sure EXCEL <GO> in Bloomberg will give you Excel help
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    Time value lost overnight and during trading day - more in either?

    Legal ownership of any financial instrument is transferred on settlement date. In fact this is actually (usually?) a date AND a time. Thus, the time value of a derivative is not calculated as continually depreciating but rather as "stepping" down where the steps occur at the time of each...
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    Time value lost overnight and during trading day - more in either?

    None lost intra-day unless the instrument is continuously settled. ie any trade I do today is settled after COB ie at a single point in time.
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    Daily bites from Pro Trade FX

    One of those well respected ones such as Cyprus, BVI or The Sechelles perhaps Says a lot about the broker imo. I would expect this to be public information available on your homepage.
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    Insults

    Have this list in notepad ready to cut and paste into the chat window when on-line gaming . . . Does your mummy know you're playing with the internet? With your wit you should be on the stage. There's one leaving in 5 minutes. Bless . . . he's 14 and thinks he has a 14" ***** That's the...
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    Looking for a programmer

    Would be helpful if you could at least specify skill-set, language and location . . . Would imagine it would be something like C#, Fix Protocol knowledge and London based? If so you're gonna get no change at all out of £500 per day for a script-kiddie and should budget for at least £750 to...
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    looking to buy 4 screens and brackets

    keep an eye out here for bargins http://www.hotukdeals.com/tag/monitor
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    Confessions from the City

    Been in the City since 1985 . . . story is total BS
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    Sam Goldberg futures mastery-no info

    Guys, we know you're bullsh1ttting us you know you're bulsh1tting us Give it a rest
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    Chancery Lane Traders

    The tone and phraseology of your three posts lead me to be very . . . "sceptical" about that claim.
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    Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Trading Forex

    +1 Pont 3 (leverage) covered by point 4 (money management) Are you guys claiming to be a professional outfit? . . . Ahhhh, just been to your web-site. Even worse, you're claiming to be teachers! "Up to date market reviews, technical analysis and news exposés provide PrimePair visitors with...
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    prospreads.com

    Open Chrome https://login.prospreads.com/Citrix/AccessPlatform/auth/login.aspx See the "Citrix" part of the url . . . .that's a BIG clue as to the technology used :cool: ie their app is NOT accessed via a browser, you simply use a browser to log-on to your account area. While I'm reluctant...
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    Has anyone evaluated 'Trading in the Buff'

    None at all, you can't copy-write that sort of thing.
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