Recent content by Preston Forbes

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    Men aged 25-34 now working at the highest rate since the recession

    All this is great and wonderful but we all know the FED and government have "tweaked" the formulas over the decades...what is real unemployment and underemployment? Does anyone else follow original stats on this such as the ShadowStats economists...
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    which way to turn...

    Do the strategy on your own...raise the 100k and trade slowly unless this is some massive wonky arb strategy that needs tons of cash and margin? I've seen hundreds of these "I found the holy grail" epiphanies over the years but I see you're a reader here since 2003...surely you know what you're...
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    CNN buys beme app...trying to play catchup and look cool with the youngsters!!!

    CNN is done for...viewership and news content has fallen off a cliff. Go ahead and look at their homepage right now to see how pop culture buzz feed sensational its become. Younger readers don't even care about CNN and see thru the fake shilling attempt.
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    In interest raising period, what will be the next trends?

    Here's an interesting article about the commercial R/E markets...sure I haven't vetted the writer but take his long piece and all the comments together and it shows a very informative picture...anecdotally I see it here in Los Angeles...commerical real estate and store fronts are for lease all...
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    In interest raising period, what will be the next trends?

    I'm wondering how rising rates will affect commercial and residential real estate which will then back flow into banks and the markets. Sure on one side rising rates will let banks and especially FCM's get back to making money off float...but then what about any R/E slowdown? Residential here...
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    Moving to singapore or dubai for trading

    Recently spent a month in Capetown and it was much better than I expected. Time zone was great and Internet is moderate good. English speaking and much more developed and safe than I had read about. The biggest surprise was the 1/4th cost of living compared to the USA. Food to drink to going...
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    PFG freezes accounts, CEO attempts suicide

    No float and every Tom Dick and Harry want Rolls Royce service at 0.99 a round turn all in right ...the race to the bottom has ended and you win...the FCM took your money before you lost it.
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    PFG - did something bad happen????

    In a Member Responsibility Action, released Monday afternoon, NFA alleges that PFGBest’s reported customer funds deposited at U.S. Bank did not match the amounts NFA found when NFA contacted the bank Monday. On June 29, 2012, PFGBest reported to the NFA that they had nearly $400 million in...
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    PFG - did something bad happen????

    http://forexmagnates.com/nfa-shuts-pfg-down-puts-it-in-liquidation-only-status-founder-attempted-a-suicide/
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    PFG - did something bad happen????

    Just now I heard people are getting liquidation only allowance and a huge loss happened there...something about a fund manager stealing client funds 25 million?
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    EX Citadel´s HFT trader genius porn-addict defense in court...

    This one has been around for years www.killdisk.com But if you want to really protect your data also encrypt it with either PGP Office the commercial product or the free open source offering from TrueCrypt.org.
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    EX Citadel´s HFT trader genius porn-addict defense in court...

    That would have been too obvious...contempt perhaps and obstruction...besides physically damaging disks is no guarantee u got all data...vanishing or vaporizing is the only 100% solution. But professional/military grade wiping software that does a 33 pass wipe and overwrite is probably a safer...
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    Germany attacks US economic policy

    Wow sounds like some propaganda here and personal hatred coloring your judgement...great analysis and sweeping generalizations...ask the other half of the world what they think of the USA and they'll copy and paste what you wrote below. ...the V rockets...really? Carpet Bombing from the USA...
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    The secret to attract business. (White,religion,no nightlife, no alcohol or coffee)

    Yeah I hate saying it but in my work experience homogenous offices did work better together. Utah also has a huge easy target to go after...California...just like the article covers. The taxes and business climate in California is poorly run...add in a sales tax thats almost 10% and a state...
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