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    good site for free economic data releases?

    superb - thanks for the quick response
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    good site for free economic data releases?

    wondering if anyone can help with which sites do you guys use to keep track of all the important economic announcements - FOMC minutes/ Non-Farm payroll / Intrest rate decisions etc ?
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    London Academy of Trading

    has anyone here done the course with these guys? I spoke to them on the phone a while back and they sounded very legit. I asked a lot of questions and they were all answered properly. There must be someone in london actually offering genuine prop training, if its not these guys, would be glad to...
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    WANTED: 7 City Unit 3 Derivatives 2012 edition

    wondering how many pages are these books - is there anyone who has done both Unit 3 and then gone on to do Unit 7 - financial derivatives or Unit 9 - commodity derivatives? Is there much overlap between these modules?
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    MetaStock XENITH users?

    Anyone using this yet and got any feedback ?
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    Metastock on MacBook Pro

    how did you get on with this in the end? - I am thinking of doing the same soon and was wondering if you had any issues
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    If you starting out trading options again - what would you do differently

    the title says it all really! If you starting out trading options again - what would you do differently?
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    Options trading software - retail platforms

    Hi guys, I have always used direct market access platforms for day trading (Sterling Trader Pro, lightspeed, Fusion, Hydra) etc - but I am looking to trade options at present and don't want to pay the $250 dollar a month fees for data and software for DMA at the moment, and am therefore...
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    Is Naked trading the last chance saloon?

    y totally agree with the journey part of this - havent gone back to totally naked on all charts, still use a few simple MAs but i use but might experiment with that at some point.
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    UK tax for US prop firms

    anyone got any advice or resources on how you deal with all the legalities of getting paid from your brokerage account in the US? do people that do this set themselves up as a limited company or is there another way to do it?
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    US markets to london markets transition

    anyone else doing this now or in the past out there that can help with this?
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    Trading arcade London

    im looking for the same thing - let me know if anything comes up - I love trading but all the time in isolation is starting to get to me
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    Multi Monitor Setup and Data backup

    bear in mind that if you get graphics cards with silly onboard ram then this will eat into your address space and possibly decrease your accessable ram on 32bit windows Vista and XP systems. Its been a while since i looked but the last time I did the top of the range cards were offering 756mb...
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    Ram?

    im on 64 bit vista with 4gb ram tradestation and it runs like a dream. this thing will keep me going for the next 5 years I recon. Or until I need to by a machine with more humidity proofing for when i move to my desert island - which ever is sooner :D
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    New tradestation user - help needed with analysis indicators not showing properly

    ]Hello gents, Just signed up to tradestation on friday afternoon and absoultely blown away by how good it is compared to the charts I was using through sterling trader pro before. Cant imagine the fun im having being able to put together everything Ive been needing for months on these easy to...
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