Remember mnx? Yeah, he was a real ... <img src="http://www.productsales.com/sjc/sigs/braskey%5B1%5D.jpg"/> "A ten-foot-tall, two-ton son of a bitch who could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing!" " mnx is the father of every kid in this town!" "He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! .......And he hated irony!" "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx was in a production of, 'The King & I?' On opening night, mnx chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews." "His cover version of Limp Bizkit's "My Way" appeared on the soundtrack for "Titanic". The pope himself thought the song crackled with energy but he didn't like the sound of burning preschoolers in the background!" "He'd eat a homeless person if you dared him!" "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off looking for a bar and we can't find one. Finally mnx takes me to a vacant lot and says, 'Here we are.' We sat there for a year and a half and sure enough someone constructs a bar around us. The day they opened we ordered a shot, drank it, and then burned the place to the ground. mnx yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found em!'" " mnx once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!" "If you drop a phonograph needle on mnx's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds.'" mnx would put on a white tie & tails & walk his pet cobra through the park on a leash. He named the cobra Beverly & taught it to fetch & dial a phone. Then one day it bit the maid, so with tears in his eyes mnx had to shoot the maid. "One time I was with mnx in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. mnx goes up to the deer and says, 'I'm mnx! SAY IT!' Then he manipulates the deer's lips in such a way as to make it say, 'mnx' ... It wasn't exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!'" "His poop is used as currency in Argentina." "He sweats Gatorade" "He once breast-fed a flamingo back to health." "I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury." "He sheds his skin once a year." "He makes brooms somewhere in Georgia." "He did 3 tours in 'Nam...... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran mnx!" "I once saw him eat a whole live chicken." "His favorite movie is 'One on One' with Robby Benson." " mnx was a two ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!" " mnx had a four day heart attack...a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese." "He had a pet cobra named Beverly that he taught to fetch and to dial a phone." "He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road." "He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child." "They found $60 in change in his stomach." "He did all the makeup on the 'Planet of the Apes' movie." "He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault." "mnx drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin.'" "They say Gene Roddenbery got the idea for Star Trek from listening to mnx talk in his sleep." "He date raped David Bowie." "He once inhaled a seagull." "The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress." "It was the sight of mnx's naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane." "He once had sex with a cigarette machine." "He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident." "He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel." "He once ate the Bible while water skiing." "He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls." "He sired a baseball team... an orchestra if you count the bastards!" "You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe!" "He has dandruff the size of mice!" "He jogged with a fridge on his back!" " mnx was a 10 foot monster who slept with all our wives! And punched us all in the face! And we loved him for it!" "His first name is ! ....... I'm drunk." "He's a ten foot tall beastman who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi." "He orchestrated the merger between Unicef and Smith & Wessen." "He went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million." "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx went hunting? mnx decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all begged for their lives... except Fleagle." "We once had a bachelor party for mnx. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it." "mnx once hosted the Grammys and gave every award to Corey Hart." "He has a toenail on the end of his penis." "mnx once got his wife pregnant and gave birth to a delicious 16 ounce steak. The after birth was sautéed mushrooms." "mnx's family crest is a picture of a baracudda eating Neil Armstrong." "mnx ranked 18th in the AP College Football Pool." "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx was in a production of, 'The King & I?' On opening night, mnx chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews." "He breast feeds John Madden." "mnx named the group Sha-Na-Na. They did NOT want to be called that." "They use mnx's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee stadium." "mnx directed that commercial where the women play basketball in high heels." "All the 'Yes' album covers are mnx family photos." "He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom." "Did I ever tell you about the time he taught his son how to drive? He did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. mnx said it would've happened sometime." "mnx's semen can form into a liquid human - like the guy from 'Terminator 2'" "mnx still believes in Santa Claus, and he wants to put him in porno films." "He thinks the Iron Man is gay." "He framed Roger Rabbit." "The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on mnx - except for the apple tree planting and not raping men." "He gave a hand job to a manta ray." "He's a big fella, goes about 6'4", 280. He loves his Scotch!" "Oh yeah, he's a big guy! Goes about 6'7", 385." "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx showed up at my daughter's wedding? You know my daughter, she's a beautiful girl. Well, mnx shows up... and you know he's a big fella.... goes about 7'8", 530. Well, he's standing right between me and my daughter at the ceremony. He's got no right to be there, but he's drunk and he's mnx! Well, long story short: the priest accidentally marries me and mnx! We spend the weekend in the Poconos - he loves me like I've never been loved before!" "He's a hell of a salesman!" "Did you know mnx is the godfather of my son?" "He sleeps eight hours a night! ........ well, he was pretty normal when it came to that." "Well, anyway.. he shows up at the church in his golf pants, caked in mud. Well, ol' mnx pushes the priest aside and says, "I'll baptize that piece of calimari!" Then he pours Scotch all over my baby son and says, "There! You're baptized!".... And he is blind to this day!" "Did I ever tell you about the time mnx sold me into slavery? Oh, yeah! He puts me on a ship to Thailand, right? And I'm chained to a pipe. Meanwhile, ol' mnx, he's back in the States siring three beautiful children with my wife!" "I hate mnx.. but I respect him!" "Best damn salesman in the office!" "Best damn trader on the Bull Market!" "Darryl Hawkins has a summer home in mnx's groin!" "mnx used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady." "Best damn snowmobile salesman there ever was!" "He uses Old Spice after shave as nasal spray!" "He fashions graven images from frozen sea water!" "He brushes his teeth with a meat cleaver and rock salt!" "This one time, mnx burned a CD with nothing but the sounds of his bowel movements and the screams of his man-servants. It went triple platinum within the month." "He owns the PAX network." "He thought "The Princess Diaries" was both "charming" and "sweet depiction of one girl's emergence from youth into womanhood"." "He made Styx BITE IT!" "They say he bleeds peppermint vodka." "Did I ever tell ya about the time that mnx and I took a hot air balloon trip over Los Angeles? mnx brings an atomic bomb and drops it on the city! Then, he looks at me and says, 'It would have happened sooner or later.'" "The movie "Deliverance" was based on mnx's experiences as a kindergarden teacher." "His memoirs are tattooed on Ruth Buzzi!" "He's producing Battlefield Earth 2!" "He receives radio messages from Mars on his scrotum!" "His big toe is holding up Australia!" "He took The Blair Witch to his senior prom!" "He makes N'Sync keep Chris!" "He invented 'The Cleveland Steamer'!" "Most people don't know this, but mnx has children! This one time, he was banging a hooker and wouldn't ya know it, his semen shoots straight through her tailbone, up through the ceiling and into the sky where it hit a plane! Nine months later, every woman on that plane had mnx's children! When they tried to get child support... he paid it every month." "His pubic hair was woven into the Sir Lankan flag!" "His favorite actor is Greg Kinnear!" "His middle name is Julian!" "He uses live elk for toilet paper!"
In case anybody didn't get it, or thought I was being more of a jerk than usual, the praise for mnx reminded me of those dumb "Bill Brasky" skits from SNL. Yeah, I'm old... mnx sounds like a great guy. Good trading to all
You know what? I didn't intentionally share anything freely, except maybe mumble a few things to people in my own office. Back at that time swifttrade office managers were able to see other traders positions, trade lists, open orders etc... Some office managers even left their software running open for all their traders to see... This went on for a long time before our office decided to not share anymore... We were sharing with about 5 other offices at the time (not every office, that might have made things much worse...) I suspect that this is how FCCT got his start on miln but I'd have to let him comment to be sure. At times I think I'd be way better off had nothing gotten out but at times I wonder how much of a difference it would make... I don't know about echo but at swift if someone is doing well, others are going to know about it. And if others know about it they're going to eventually find out what you're doing... I don't know how you can keep your methods a total secret when you trade in an office with others.. Do you discuss your pnl with others in your office Rearden? What do you say when they ask what your trading / how you trade etc? Or do you trade remote? There's only about 5-6 others here in the office I trade at but we've taken more of the teamwork approach at this point. I might have come up with some good tricks in the past but I'm hoping if I have a little difficultly in the future that someone else might have some pointers for me. good trading to all. mnx
I know exactly what you mean. This market made me want to scream most of the day. I hate this light volume, trendless crap. If this market existed in physical form I'd slug it. LOL
I got shredded going from ES, ZB, and ZN. And it wasn't huge losses (total of $400). It was just stops getting hit constantly. With my luck, the one time I dont put a stop , it would have dropped like a rock. Psychologically, I should be proud I stuck to my guns but it's nonetheless frustrating. I just went long on 2 contracts of QM on a position trade and getting ready to start shorting the ES and YM for position trades. I'll daytrade the ZB and ZN next week just because they've been little bitches!