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A Day at a Time | |
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Just What Is Day Trading? | |
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In and Out | |
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Discipline: The Big "D" | |
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Nothing Held Overnight? | |
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A High-Performance Jet | |
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A New Revolution, an Old Idea | |
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Put It in the Bucket | |
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The Dark Ages | |
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But I Thought This Was an Investing Book | |
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Help for All Mankind | |
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Pure Capitalism | |
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Maximum Liquidity | |
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The Public Market | |
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What Does This Have to Do with Day Trading? | |
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Not Just a Job | |
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Can I Quit My Job? | |
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Just How Much Can I Make? | |
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Tax Time | |
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Who Wins and Why? | |
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Does Anyone Important Do This? | |
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What We Assume You Already Know | |
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Warning, Warning! | |
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What Not to Expect | |
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The (Re-) Emergence of Day Trading | |
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The Electronic Revolution | |
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Vacuum-Tube Logic | |
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The Renaissance Trading Faire | |
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The Electronic (Market) Age | |
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Net Gains | |
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Getting Connected | |
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It Drives Fast, but What Good Is It? | |
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The Three I's: Information, Information, Information | |
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High-Performance Information | |
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The Three A's: Access, Access, Access | |
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High-Performance Access | |
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New Rules and Tools | |
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Tool Change: DOT and SuperDot on the NYSE | |
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Tool Change: SOES on NASDAQ | |
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Rule Change: Limit Order Protection Rule | |
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Rule Change: Teenies | |
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Future Rules and Tools | |
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Commission Remission | |
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A Bigger Roller Coaster | |
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The New Right-to-Work State | |
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Is This Bud for You? | |
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Day Traders Come in Different Colors | |
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Peas, Carrots, Beans, or Corn | |
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A Question of Style | |
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Timing--What Makes You Tick? | |
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What It Takes | |
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OK, How'd You Do? | |
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There Are So Many Good Things to Buy | |
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Making the Shopping List | |
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Liquidity | |
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Volume | |
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Movement | |
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Access to Information | |
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Easy Access to Trade | |
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Stocking Up on Stocks | |
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Stock Markets | |
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Stock Prices | |
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Other Options? | |
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What Is an Equity Option? | |
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Option Prices | |
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A Transfer of Risk | |
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Equity-Option Pricing | |
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At, In, or Out of the Money | |
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What About Day-Trading Options? | |
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Fire in the Bellies | |
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Commodity Futures | |
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Financial Asset Futures | |
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Fingering the Indexes | |
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We Pick Stocks. Why? | |
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To Infinity, and Beyond | |
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Why All the Fuss? | |
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Who's Making Such a Stink? | |
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The Disapproving Parents | |
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Badges? We Don't Need No Stinking Badges! | |
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"Know Your Customer" | |
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Online Threats | |
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Who's Making the Market? | |
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Planners Pan it | |
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Flat, Busted, Broke | |
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Changing the Rules | |
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A Trip to the Markets | |
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Trading Places: The NYSE | |
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Wall and Broad | |
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A Star Is Born | |
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A Little More History | |
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Big and Small, but Mostly Big | |
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Making the Day Trader's List | |
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The Big Apple Auction | |
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Enter the Auctioneer | |
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Front-Row Seats | |
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An Auction Specialist | |
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The Specialist's Specialty | |
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Who He (She) Is, What He (She) Does | |
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A Question of Balance | |
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The Reward System | |
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Electronic SuperDots | |
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Why SuperDot? | |
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What This Means to You | |
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Anatomy of a Trade | |
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Cast of Characters | |
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Setting the Stage | |
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Act One | |
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Act Two | |
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Act Three | |
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Epilogue | |
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Other Dance Floors | |
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Trading Places: The NASDAQ | |
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Cyberfloor | |
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A Negotiated Market | |
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Enter the Computer | |
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Maker's Market | |
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Market Makers Are People, Too | |
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What Does a Market Maker Do? | |
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Market Makers Under the Microscope | |
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Market Makers Play Rugby | |
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The Rumor Mill Grinds On | |
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Electronic Everything | |
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No Yelling on This Floor | |
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Swift, Silent Execution | |
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Hot SOES | |
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Why SOES? | |
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SOES rules | |
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The Infamous SOES Bandit | |
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ECN: A New Network | |
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ECNs--Why and What? | |
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Finding the ECN Channel | |
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Keeping the Ratings Up | |
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Pause for Station Identification | |
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Anatomy of a Trade | |
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Act One | |
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Act Two | |
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Act Three | |
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On the Move | |
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Comparing NASDAQ and NYSE | |
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30-Second Review--NYSE | |
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30-Second Review--NASDAQ | |
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So What's the Big Difference? | |
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Indexing the Market | |
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Can 30 Represent Thousands? | |
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Fine, but How Do I Use? | |
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So Quoth the Market | |
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What's in a Quote? | |
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Who Pays for Quotes? | |
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Fundamental Changes | |
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Behind the Scenes | |
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All a Matter of Time | |
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Technical Changes | |
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Sense of the Action | |
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Up, Down--Cash in Either Way | |
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Sell Me Short | |
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Rules, Rules, Rules | |
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Day Trader's Armaggedon | |
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Tools to Keep You Informed | |
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Watching the World Go 'Round | |
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A Window Seat | |
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So Many Forms | |
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Smart News | |
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The Whole Point Is Advantage | |
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Daily Fishwraps | |
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A Financial Paper | |
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The Journal | |
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Investing in IBD | |
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Get with the Times | |
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The Squawk Box | |
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See NBC | |
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Mountains in Bloom | |
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Nighttime TV | |
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The Others | |
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And on the Radio | |
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A Net Full of News | |
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Really Free | |
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Semi-Free | |
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Paid For | |
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Research Like a Fool | |
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Zack's Fifth Avenue | |
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Fool's Commentary | |
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Tech Talk | |
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More Information, Please | |
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A Bigger Radar Screen | |
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Kinds of Radar Screens | |
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What's It Gonna Cost? | |
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Learning Your Lesson | |
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Power Push | |
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The World at Your Fingertips | |
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Just the Features, Please | |
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Double Half-Caf Light Foam No-Cal | |
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Let's Take a Closer Look | |
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Map, Please | |
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A Look at the Sticker | |
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Getting Wired | |
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Where Do I Sign Up? | |
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Look Ma, No Wires! | |
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FM--No Static at All | |
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Cool Gadgets Aren't Free | |
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The Store Window | |
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Create the Perfect Chart | |
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Omigosh, Statistics? | |
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Tech Tools | |
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Net-Based Tools | |
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Software Packages | |
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The Rules Committee | |
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A Couple of Favorites | |
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For a Day Trader's Eyes Only | |
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The Virtual Coffee Pot | |
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Cream and Sugar | |
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Don't Skip Batting Practice | |
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The Short List | |
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On the Local Scene | |
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The Rumor Mill | |
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The Day Trader's Buzz | |
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Re-Enter the Fool | |
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Book 'Em, Danno | |
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Integration Without a Bus | |
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A One-Stop Shop | |
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Tools of the Trade | |
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May We Take Your Order? | |
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Mark It "Market," "Day," or "Good Till Cancelled" | |
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Make Mine Market, Please | |
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A Day at a Time | |
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Good Till What? | |
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Fill or Kill | |
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Canceling the Flight | |
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Backing Out | |
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Catching an Earlier Flight | |
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Know Your Limits | |
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Buy Limit Orders | |
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Sell Limit Orders | |
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Using Your Limits | |
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Stop Me Before I Fall Again! | |
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Buy Stop Orders | |
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Sell Stop | |
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Putting a Limit to a Stop | |
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Paying the Freight | |
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The Long and Short of It | |
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Selling Yourself Short | |
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But You've Gotta Know the Rules | |
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Putting Your Shorts On | |
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Shorting at the Margin | |
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Losing Your Shorts | |
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Shorting as a Strategy | |
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Living at the Margin | |
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At the Margin | |
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Terms, Conditions, and a Few More Terms | |
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Current Market Value | |
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Initial Margin Requirement | |
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Debit Balance | |
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Equity | |
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Excess Equity | |
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Minimum Maintenance Requirement | |
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The Margin Hit List | |
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What's the Point? | |
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What Does Margin Cost? | |
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The Daily Numbers | |
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"Dear, Your Broker Is on the Phone..." | |
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How Much Do I Need? | |
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Will You Take a Check? | |
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Lock, Stock, and Barrel | |
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Should You Use Margin? | |
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Getting It Online | |
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Trading at the Speed of Light | |
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Sedan or Performance Machine? | |
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The Internet Chevy | |
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The Direct-Access Corvette | |
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Brokering the Internet | |
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Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry | |
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Full Service Meets E-Service | |
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At a Discount | |
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"E" from the Ground Up | |
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Kicking the Tires | |
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Features and Services | |
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Performance and Dependability | |
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Router Rooter | |
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Manual Backup | |
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Ease of Use | |
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Cost | |
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Minimum Requirements | |
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Checking Out the Service Department | |
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Customer-Service Desk | |
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Training, Education | |
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Security | |
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What Does Consumer Reports Say? | |
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On the Magazine Stand | |
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On the Web | |
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Taking It to Level II | |
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A Color Radar Screen | |
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Remember the Market Maker | |
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Supply and Demand | |
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Picking Up the Echo | |
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Ground School | |
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Back to Level I | |
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Locking In on the Crowd | |
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What Do I Hear Bid? | |
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An Offer We Can't Refuse | |
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So What Happens Now? | |
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And Now, Live from Level II | |
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Bells and Whistles | |
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The Corner Color Bar | |
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Market Maker Watch | |
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A Time for All Sales | |
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At Your Local Avionics Store | |
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What's It Gonna Cost Me? | |
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Training Wheels | |
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A High-Performance Trading Jet | |
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An Advanced Weapons System | |
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Engines and Controls | |
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Launch Your Own Invasion | |
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What's in the Cockpit? | |
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The Instrument Cluster | |
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For Your (Many) Eyes Only | |
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Tickering Around | |
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Tick This | |
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On Alert | |
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You've Locked In--Now What? | |
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A Trader's Joystick | |
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Immediate Execution | |
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Confirmation | |
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Flipping to the ECN Channel | |
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Divergence | |
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Preferencing | |
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Time in Force | |
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Changing Your Mind | |
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Let's Take a Closer Look | |
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Hotkeys | |
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Picking Out Your Jet | |
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Speed, Climb, Payload, Cost | |
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A Checklist | |
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Information and Decision Support | |
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Trading and Execution Support | |
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Account Management | |
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PandL Performance Tracking | |
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What About Training? | |
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OK, Who Makes These Jets? | |
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Are Internet Brokers Seizing the Opportunity? | |
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Is It in Your Defense Budget? | |
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How Do They Charge? | |
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Minimum Requirements | |
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Trading in the Parlor | |
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Trading-Room Advantages | |
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Where to Look | |
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Licensed for Action | |
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Reading the Tea Leaves | |
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Getting an Attitude | |
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The Day-Trading Picnic | |
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Data Doesn't Replace Judgment | |
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I Thought My Computer Could Do This | |
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IS It a Random Walk? | |
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Applying Science to Chaos | |
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What's This Have to Do with the Markets? | |
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Why Have an Attitude? | |
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Be with the SandP | |
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Let's Be Futuristic | |
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What Do the Arbs Say? | |
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Declining Your Advances | |
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Does the Market Have Bad Breadth? | |
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Making It Cumulative | |
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A Tick in Your Arms | |
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Making Us All Tick | |
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Arms Strength | |
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Strength Is All Relative | |
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Relative to What? | |
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Are We Relatively Strong Today? | |
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Do I Have to Go to the Gym? | |
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Getting Sentimental | |
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A Sentimental Journey | |
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Getting Really Technical | |
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Nestle's Data Crunch | |
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Not Just for Decoration | |
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Timing Isn't Everything | |
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Pick Me a Few Good Ones | |
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Keeping It Simple | |
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The Art of the Chart | |
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What Are We Looking For? | |
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The Long and Short of It | |
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Compare and Contrast | |
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Smoothing Out the Bumps | |
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Fast Lane, Slow Lane | |
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On with the Show | |
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Strength Is All Relative, II | |
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RSI in Your Eye | |
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Mighty 'Mo | |
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At Home on the Trading Range | |
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Everybody Over the Wall! | |
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Stochastics, Anyone? | |
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Higher Highs, Lower Lows | |
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Say, What a Cute Pattern | |
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Head and Shoulders Above the Rest | |
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Love Triangles | |
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Little Round Tops (and Bottoms) | |
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Cups and Handles | |
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The Trend Is Your Friend | |
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Moving with the Averages | |
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Crossovers | |
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One More for the Road | |
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A La Carte Menu | |
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In a High Enough Wind | |
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Fall into the Gap | |
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Just in Case You Want More | |
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Free Charting | |
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And Not Free | |
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In the Bookstore | |
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Games People Play | |
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Market Makers Are People, Too | |
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The Human Factor | |
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Brokering and Dealing | |
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As a Broker | |
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Deal Me In | |
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And They Are Also Day Traders | |
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Fine Used Cars | |
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Must We Always Compete? | |
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You're One of the Crowd, Now | |
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The Market-Maker Card Game | |
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Drawing for an Ace | |
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Is This Guy Bluffing? | |
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Straight, Flush, or Pair of Deuces | |
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Capturing the Spread | |
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Playing the Market | |
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Wild Cards | |
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Bluff Hand | |
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Finding the Poker Face | |
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One or Many | |
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The Spread Catcher | |
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The Market Player | |
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A Man with an Ax | |
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The Bluffer | |
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Let's Return to New York | |
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What's the Difference? | |
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Get Out Your Magnifying Glass | |
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Hitting Your Limits | |
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A Piece of the Action | |
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Steady as She Goes | |
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Chasing the Spread | |
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Uh-Oh. Time to Sell? | |
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Is There a Man with an Ax? | |
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Getting Clocked | |
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Oh, Baby. It's Getting Worse | |
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Whew. Glad That's Over | |
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What's Going on Now? | |
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Clocking In | |
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On Our Way | |
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Developing Your Own Day-Trading Style | |
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The Day Trader's Playbook | |
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It's Never Pure and Simple | |
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Without Further Ado | |
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Scalpin' Teenies | |
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How and Why | |
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Making It Work | |
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Cutting In | |
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Gotchas | |
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Best-Laid Plans | |
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Down Broadway | |
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Meant for Momentum | |
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How and Why | |
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Making It Work | |
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Gotchas | |
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Best-Laid Plans | |
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Down Broadway | |
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Filling the Gaps | |
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What's a Gap? | |
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The Day Trader's Play | |
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Down Broadway | |
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Shadowing the Ax | |
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Is the Ax Sharp? | |
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The Day Trader's Play | |
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Down Broadway | |
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Is This Event on Your Calendar? | |
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Down Broadway | |
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Tactical and Practical | |
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Getting Personal | |
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No Two Day Traders Are Alike | |
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Science | |
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Art | |
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A Question of Style | |
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Compulsories | |
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Involved or Committed | |
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Does It Make a Difference? | |
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Style Points | |
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No Pain, No Gain | |
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Time Commitment | |
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Market Appetite | |
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Fast Lane or Slow Lane? | |
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The Day Trader's Day | |
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An Unalarming Beginning | |
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The Morning News | |
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Turn On, Tune In | |
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Ding ... And They're Off | |
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Decide Your Daily Fate | |
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Trade, Trade, Trade | |
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Midday Breather | |
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Getting Ready to Close | |
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Day Is Done | |
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Aftermath | |
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Personal and Practical | |
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Trading at the Speed of Thought | |
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A Bigger Picture | |
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The Day Trader's Trifecta | |
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A Question of Balance | |
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Counting Your Chips | |
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Keeping Track | |
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Setting Aside Risk Capital | |
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Diversification | |
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Knowing When to Get Big | |
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Dealing Yourself In | |
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Five-Card Draw or Seven-Card Stud? | |
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Choices | |
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Learn by Doing | |
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Tool Catalogs | |
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Computer Considerations | |
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Practice Hands | |
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Good on Paper, Bad on Paper | |
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Going Back | |
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Second Best for Awhile | |
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In the Red | |
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Staying at the Table | |
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Brain Training | |
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Brain-Eye Coordination | |
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Learning How Your Brain Works | |
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The Future of Day Trading | |
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Online Investing | |
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Another Population Explosion? | |
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At Your Friendly Neighborhood ECN | |
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After the Sun Goes Down | |
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Day Trading Across Borders | |
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The NYSE Wants to Play, Too | |
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Taking It Home with You | |
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Appendices | |
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Trading Terms | |
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Market-Maker and ECN Symbols | |
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"Plain Talk About Online Investing" | |
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Index | |