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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39590683,00.htm spinning drive's days are numbered, especially with the new "wear leveling" technology coming out

I agree, and so therefore, oil companies like XOM should be reporting record smashing profits next quarter because they are charging the same price for gas that they were when it cost them $65 a barrel. But now they are getting it for $51 (as of today) so their margins are now enormous.

Anyone?....anyone?.......Bueller.....Bueller.......

Does anyone know of a free resource to get analyst estimates of comparable same store sales data for upcoming months, like say January's estimates? Yahoo finance does not seem to have the upcoming estimates. I can't find it on Tradestation either.

I don't think he has ever actually used it; he just claims that he thinks it is available to him if he wants it. I just wondered if anyone alse has heard of a broker allowing 10:1 leverage for stocks.

This might sound crazy, but I have a friend who claims that Smith Barney extends him 10x leverage on his equities account as long as he does not keep his positions open over the weekend. Does this sound right to anyone else? What is the highest possible amount of borrow you can get...

that's a pretty serious set up mymini! Everyone I know who has a bloomberg has some hardware associated with so that's why I thought it was required. I believe that they have the terminal, a special PC and a bloomberg keyboard. Do you just have a soft data feed? I bet Doom 3 would look...

do you know how to do that and if so what does that entail?

How about the prices for all of those if you know them? I trade currencies but not foreign stocks or indices if that's what you had in mind as far as global products mymini. I met a trader who used a reuters feed for currency trading and he said it was fantastic so I'm curious as to what...

Does anyone here know how much a reuters data feed costs per month? Is there any hardware associated with it like a Bloomberg? If you do have one, how do you like it, and how would you rate it compared to other data feeds? Does it help your trading? Just curious and looking for some...

Does anyone who works on the street or for an investment bank know how a retail analyst actually comes up with their estimate of same store sales or eps? I have a friend who owns a hedge fund and according to him all the analyst does is speak to management and attempt to gauge from their...