Trade Here Now!
Article :
June/July 2007
From Amsterdam to Zurich, Beantown to Buenos Aires: presenting our inaugural ranking of the 50 greatest trading cities in the world.
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City Group
Posting :
Rich Blake
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04/04/2008
We are now rolling out our new issue featuring our annual Trader Monthly 100 chronicling the sickest cash hauls of 2007. While you’d think I’d be totally stoked having worked on this project practically nonstop since the end of December, in actuality, though the April/May issue is only now about to drop, I’m full steam ahead on the next one. This next issue (June/July) will for the second time chronicle the 50 Best Trading Cities in the World. Our first installment did not exactly take the world by storm though I did notice Citadel’s website links to the piece. I want this next Top Cities package to be all it can be, hence this column informing readers what I’m cooking up.
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Links of Luxury
Article :
June/July 2007
For a man like you (read: stressed-out, demanding, cash-rich), not just any golf resort will do. You need fairways like carpets, pillows like clouds — and a surfeit of world-class links capable of quenching the most obsessive-compulsive golfing habit.
Behold the world’s MOST CLASSIC resorts . . . for traders.
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Gimme Shelter
Article :
April/May 2006
Why burn your valuable vacation time booking a measly five-star hotel room when you could walk through the front door of a private luxury home and stroll out the back door into paradise? Behold the finest residence-club properties in the world -- and the keys to making them yours.
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Into Africa
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
Tired of, you know, civilization? Answer nature's call in wildest Uganda.
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Hawaiian Punch
Article :
December 2005/January 2006
Kauai? Because it offers Hawaii's finest in luxury, most spectacular golf and greatest array of exciting ways to break a femur. That's Kauai.
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Luxe Redux
Article :
June/July 2005
Spurred by the opening of the lavish Borgata, a slew of sleek new venues are popping up all over Atlantic City, turning this once faded joke into a mini-Vegas on the ocean
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Vineland
Article :
June/July 2005
A spacious Italian villa with bottle-ready merlot grapes out back? Bellissimo!
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The Call of the Wild
Article :
June/July 2005
Scale Kilimanjaro, then get mauled by a cheetah on a Tanzanian safari
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The Vegas 100
Article :
April/May 2005
There are thousands of diversions in Sin City - but most are sucker bets. In honor of the centennial of the ultimate trader playground, we've pulled out the top 100 plays that Las Vegas has to offer
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Long-Range Bomber
Article :
April/May 2005
With speed, smarts, size, comfort and prodigious length, the new Gulfstream G550 is the bizjet set's new MVP (Most Valuable Plane)
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Norway Island, British Columbia
Article :
April/May 2005
Yo, Canada! It's not just for frigid hockey hooligans anymore
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Selling Shares
Article :
February/March 2005
An eighth is enough? When you're talking about fractional jet ownership, it might be
better than having it all
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The Land of White Greens
Article :
February/March 2005
This April, dozens of golfers will trek nearly 1,000 miles above the Arctic Circle to battle freezing cold, polar bears and one another for the title of World Ice Golf Champion. Care to join them? Bring your rifle
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Paraty, Brazil
Article :
February/March 2005
Sun, sand, bikinis: This place put an extra a in party
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Air Apparent
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
The Cessna Citation CJ3 isn't merely the newest - and best - starter plane on the market. At $400,000 for a sixteenth-share, it's your personal invitation to the jet set
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King Kong
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
Seven years after being handed over by the British, Hong Kong is more raucous than ever, with luxurious digs, succulent cuisine and nightlife that knows no bounds
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Mahare, French Polynesia
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
Cast yourself in South Pacific, complete with the grass-skirted lovelies
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Cabo, Off the Hook
Article :
October/November 2004
Baja's 24-hour pleasure palace has gone luxe with marlin fishing, Jack Nicklaus golf, a flesh smorgasbord . . . and the most over-the-top six-star resort in the hemisphere
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Rolling Carnival
Article :
October/November 2004
Speed all day, party all night: At the Bullrun, an eight-day trans-America exercise in excess, fast cars yield all sorts of trouble
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Cornish Cay, Bahamas
Article :
October/November 2004
A pirates' playground for under $5 million
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Best Free Guide to Destination Clubs and Private Residence Clubs
Posting :
Recommendations
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05/09/2008
Destination clubs and private residence clubs offer a great way to enjoy luxury residences in great locations without the hassles or financial commitment of second home ownership.
Perfect Escapes published an unbiased and free guide that explains the industry, the players and questions you should consider when thinking of joining.
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New and Free Guide to Destination and Private Residence Clubs
Posting :
Dealmaking
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05/09/2008
Destination and private residence clubs offer a great opportunity to enjoy luxury residences without the hassles or financial commitment of second home ownership. This guide helps you understand the market, the players and questions to consider.
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Rare Weekend 5.08.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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05/08/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Word Problems For Hedgies
Article :
May 2008
Mind-benders? Always great. Mind-benders that entertain with scabrous class ennui? Totally awesome. And we’ve got a mess of them here. (One not-even-cream-of-the-crop example: If a hedge-fund manager makes $900 million and is taxed at a rate of 15 percent, how many factory workers making $32,500 and being taxed at a rate of 25 percent does that make a sucker of? Show your work!)
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Turks and Caicos Islands: R&R Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/turkscaicos_rrescapes.html
Turks and Caicos Islands: Active Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/turkscaicos_activeescapes.html
Turks and Caicos Islands: Feel Like "Belonging"?
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/turkscaicos_belong.html
Destination of the Week: Turks and Caicos Islands
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/turkscaicos.html
San Francisco: R&R Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/sanfran_rrescapes.html
San Francisco: Active Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/sanfran_activeescapes.html
Destination of the Week: San Francisco
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/sanfran.html
Chart of the Day: VIX
Posting :
Mark Whistler
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05/05/2008
The VIX is falling, something that could be bullish for markets if confirmation ensues.
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Flying between New York and London?
Posting :
Rudy Maxa
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05/02/2008
Now that both Maxjet and Eos--two pioneers in the all-business-class, discounted-ticket airline category—have shut down, how can an executive on a budget avoid flying coach between New York and London?
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‘Emerging’ Vs ‘Frontier’
Article :
May 2008
Investing in one of these markets is now so lucrative, you simply cannot afford to treat it as a mere option anymore. Investing in the other is fraught with tricks, traps and potholes. Plus, like Botox, nobody really knows its long-term effects. But if you know what to look for, you just might make a mint. Let the following be your primer.
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Rare Weekend 4.17.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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04/18/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Resistance Is Futile
Article :
April 2008
Overshadowing today’s utterly ludicrous revelation that gaffes on the part of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now threatening to strip the U.S. of its triple-A credit rating, is the Delta and Northwest hookup – a union that might not save our dunderheaded economy from its own credit faux pas, but is sure to roil airline stocks for the opportunistic trader. Assuming that this merger is not tripped up by airline regulators or employees, the combined carrier would boast revenue of $35 billion and very likely change the fabric of the entire airline industry (just look at today’s news of Sir Richard Branson’s run at a U.K. airline, Dubai sovereign wealth fund possibly in tow).
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Travel: R&R Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/bermuda3.html
Destination of the Week
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/bermuda.html
Travel: Active Escapes
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http://www.traderdaily.com/travel/bermuda2.html
Rare Weekend 4.10.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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04/10/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Brace For Bad Air
Article :
April 2008
If you happened to be traveling through Chicago’s O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth International or New York’s La Guardia airports in recent days and you experienced hideous flight bottlenecks, we are sorry to report that this is probably just a foretaste of the feast to come. With jets weirdly failing FAA inspections left and right (just Monday, nine MD-80s operated by American didn’t pass muster, resulting in hundreds of groundings and more than one thousand flight cancelations) here’s what to expect in the coming weeks, as scrutiny of passenger planes only picks up.
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Rare Weekend 4.3.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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04/03/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Venture: High Society
Article :
April 2008
When canvassing the South Pacific, here’s how to stage a mutiny against crowded cruise ships and puddle-jumpers by traveling in the most luxurious way: island-hopping by helicopter.
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Rare Weekend 3.27.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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03/27/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Citi’s Humbling
Article :
March 2008
The stock of Citigroup is less prized these days than that of Bank of America, JPMorgan and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Not long ago, it was the biggest U.S. bank by assets. What the Sam Hill happened?
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Fashion: Power Tools
Article :
March 2008
The clothes may make the man, but it's the accessories that make the money man. Here’s how to swing that bling.
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JPMorgan’s Bonus Play
Article :
March 2008
JPM’s CEO Jamie Dimon is a smart man. And in his many travels, he’s picked up on some distinct subtleties in the dealings of men that have allowed him to persuade them to do exactly what he wants. Chief among them: money talks.
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Rare Weekend 3.20.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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03/20/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Angel Investor
Article :
March 2008
We always knew the capitalist portion of the criminal mind could be put to good use. We just never thought anyone would actually leave a high-paying job to prove it. How Catherine Rohr decided to ditch her job to do just that.
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Taiwan: Place Yor Bets
Article :
March 2008
Jim Rogers has a yen for Taiwan. A look at how the famed “investment biker” and co-founder of the Quantum Hedge Fund with George Soros got to be all hot and bothered over China’s so-called breakaway province.
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This Week In Wall Street History March 17-23
Posting :
This Week in Wall Street History
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03/17/2008
Today’s financial services giant and Dow Jones Industrial Average member, American Express humbly began as a horse driven, express shipping business this week on March 18th 1850.
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Friday Levity: From The Hooker’s Mouth
Article :
March 2008
The Freakonomics blog, via The New York Times Web site, gets up close and personal with a high-class prostitute who tells it like it is on all things Spitzer (withholding all the surname jokes today) and the ins and outs (no pun intended) of servicing the rich, the famous and the merely moneyed in the world’s oldest profession.
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Rare Weekend 3.13.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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03/13/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Insider Surfing
Article :
March 2008
Let the tourists splash around in the kiddie pools of Waikiki. For the trader who yearns to ride the waves of Hawaii’s more remote secret spots, the Kapalua Resort has a fixer for you.
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Put/Call Ratio
Posting :
Mark Whistler
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03/10/2008
The put/call ratio is on the rise again, something investors will want to keep an eye on!
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Head Butler - Music - Alexander Nevsky
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
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03/07/2008
The greatest score in all of film --- so good that it inspired John Williams' shark theme in “Jaws” and James Horner's music for “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
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Everyone’s An Addict
Article :
March 2008
Let us put this very simply: America may be addicted to oil, but the Middle East (and specifically the oil cartel effectively controlled by Saudi Arabia) is addicted to our addiction. We like the black wet stuff. They like the dry green stuff. It’s an unsexy quid pro quo that binds us. So, there was never any doubt that Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would never, ever, EVER increase oil output. That would mean fewer barrels at $104 a pop for them, and with the dollar tumbling, that price ain’t what it used to be. All OPEC can possibly do, no matter how much our president begs, is not slash how much oil they’re already pouring onto the market. But, as this story clearly illustrates, even that is not guaranteed.
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Rare Weekend 3.6.08: Your Weekend Starts Now
Posting :
Raredaily.com Rare Weekend
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03/05/2008
The newest and hottest in fine dining, nightlife, travel and men's style, from New York City to Los Angeles.
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Back In The USSR!
Article :
March 2008
We scoured Trader Monthly’s international “archives” to unearth this 1989 Soviet edition — and excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights.
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Bonus Retreat: Buyer’s Market
Article :
March 2008
Which luxury indulgences are most deserving of your bonus cash? We polled our readers, and the survey says these following items are the year’s top capital investments.
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Friends of Trends & Countertrends
Posting :
Raymond Lee
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02/27/2008
According to the author Richard L. Weissman you can trade with the trade or trade against the trend (i.e. with the countertrend) and make money either way.
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Blackstone Goes For Gold As Oil Tops $102
Article :
February 2008
Black gold, that is. (And being Blackstone, what could be more appropriate?) In a $2 billion partnership likely to be announced today, the massive private-equity firm’s bid on oil refineries is well-timed, as the sinking dollar boosts oil futures prices to a new record high. More on how deep-pocketed investors are increasingly chasing down less conventional opportunities like this one in hopes of booking fatter returns.
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Why The Superrich Love A Good Recession
Article :
February 2008
Or a stag-cession, as the case may be. Some choice words from Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, publicly anointed boy who would be king and self-ordained rich-guy activist.
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The Trip of a Lifetime for Investors
Posting :
Mark Whistler
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02/20/2008
Investors seeking to explore the investment possibilities in China might love this journey in April!
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Almighty It Is – But Here’s What It’s Not
Article :
February 2008
If you, like us, have been watching too many National Treasure movies, you’re probably a little confused at this point about the true meaning of that seal on the U.S. dollar and whether there really is a golden city beneath Mount Rushmore. We cannot attest to the latter, but when it comes to the greenback, we want to set the record straight.
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Head Butler - Books - The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
Posting :
Jesse Kornbluth
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02/08/2008
“The Alchemist” has sold more than 30 million copies, been translated into more than 50 languages and published in more than 150 countries --- in short, I have no trouble believing that this is one of the world's most popular books.
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Fall Guy For Trading Losses
Posting :
Raymond Lee
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02/06/2008
When Societe General "suddenly discovered" recently that it lost $7-Billion USD, it blamed its loss on a low level employee. Maybe he did it and maybe he didn’t. Is he guilty or is he merely the victim of office politics?
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This Week in Wall Street History: February 4th-10th
Posting :
This Week in Wall Street History
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02/04/2008
With the patronage of millionaire mentor Cornelius Vanderbilt, two captivating sisters, Victoria Claflin Woodhall and Tennessee Celeste Claflin, opened the first women's brokerage firm in the Hoffman House Hotel, NYC - this week on February 5th, 1870.
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Insider Surfing
Article :
February/March 2008
Let the tourists splash around in the kiddie pools of Waikiki. For the trader who yearns to ride the waves of Hawaii’s more remote secret spots, the Kapalua Resort has a fixer for you.
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Back in the USSR!
Article :
February/March 2008
We scoured Trader Monthly’s international “archives” to unearth this 1989 Soviet edition — and excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights.
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