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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 | |