Compadres, welcome to Friday! Here’s hoping you have a great weekend planned. How’s that holiday shopping coming along? Or have you been following my various cheapskate posts and going for homemade gifts this year?

Meanwhile, let’s check out the newest faces on the TradeKing Leaderboard, shall we? Tearing up the turf this week, we have Noobie_Trader_03, RobertLunder, and CoolJoe – very nice, people!

What else is cooking? Inside Skinny and idid are both goldbugs, at least for the moment. Swingtrades is calling for a GOOG pullback, while RLTromble puzzles out the relationship – or apparent disconnect - between news and the markets in “Cause and Effect”.

Over on the forums, lots of folks clamoring for a TK connection to Mint and Yodlee – are you one of them? The outcry on pattern daytrading rules reads is as furious as ever. There’ve been so many great questions raised in this thread, we’ll plan on a clarifying post over at the TK All-Stars blog – stay tuned for that. And if you haven’t already, you gotta check out Will Profit’s latest blog post: “Wanted: A Good Topic”. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long while.

Last but not least, this week’s shout-out goes specifically to a TradeKing Community regular, UPod, who’s officially scheduled to become a dad this Sunday. Congratulations, sir!

And enjoy your weekend, everyone!

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Congrats again Upod!

Very busy week on the boards and do look forward to a pattern day trading clarification post. Would also be interesting to hear some sort of status on the T+1 stock settlement rumors that have been floating around.

All us cash account guys would love for that to go through sooner than later I'm sure...:0)

Thanks for the shout-out Bigdog!   

Thanks for the congrats Corbinb2,  The wife and I are heading to the hospital in a couple hours ( they're inducing her this evening ).    Take Care - UPod

Thanks for the tip, Corbinb2 - I'll pass this along to Nicole Wachs for TK All-Stars. It's always nice to gear our topics to whatever the latest burning questions in the TK Community are...

Meanwhile, as I type this, UPod is a brand-new dad! We're all cheering for you at TK, sir.