Recent content by toho

Well, this issue started to happen to a lot of people after the recent forced TWS upgrade. There was a thread recently at the TWSAPI group. Personally, I have never had this problem prior to the last TWS upgrade, except for a short while when the security device was really new. It is...

I had a similar experience some time back. I started getting targeted stock spam to one of my tagged brokerage (not Ameritrade) email addresses. After I complained about it, the spam problem immediately went away, although the broker claimed they had nothing to do with it. I find that episode...

Please do. I would be interested in knowing what you intend to model specifically. I would have to agree with heech, though, that this is not something new to the field. Also, the thing about financial data is that the signal to noise ratio is so low that even with vast amounts of data your...

TWS stores the name of the server it last connected to in a file called jts.ini. Typically the file would include something like Peer=gw1.ibllc.com:4000 The next time you use TWS it will look in jts.ini to find out which server to connect to. When you connect using the paper trading...

I don't always agree with him, but there is no doubt in my mind that the wealth of Sweden is not due to any policies pursued by the SAP. There is also no doubt in my mind that the confiscatory taxation of the 70s and 80s and the extreme taxation on capital formation by small business owners in...

Well, Sweden is often used as an example of a country that has become rich under the left. The point that Norberg, at least, is trying to make is that Sweden didn't become rich under the SAP. Already before the start of the socialist reform programs, Sweden was one of the richest countries in...

I don't see him claiming that (although I can see why you interpreted it that way). You have to watch the video to understand the context, though. Just to get the facts straight, none of the top companies in Sweden were founded after the 70s. Two, as far as I know (H&M and IKEA) were founded...

That's not quite true. There was a major shift towards socialism in Sweden in the 60s. Before that, government intervention in the economy was very limited, even though the SAP were in power. Anyway, almost all of the major companies in Sweden were founded before 1932, during the laissez...

There has actually been quite a lot of discussion about this, and there are published papers as well. I don't think you will find any links to them from RealClimate, though. But I think you underestimate the difficulty in proving fraud (if that indeed is the case) when there is no disclosure of...

I think you are the troll here. He clearly believes that the glacier on Kilimanjaro is the source of the Nile.

Kilimanjaro is not the source of the Nile - your talking pure nonsense. Also, Kilimanjaro does not melt. Temperatures at the glacier are below zero C around the year. The reduction of ice at the summit is a consequence of ablation and reduced precipitation, not of melting. This is well...

The point about equilibrium is simply not true. The earth is never at thermal equilibrium (obviously - if it were we would have no changing weather, no rain, no wind etc). The weather system of the earth is highly non-linear and has so called sensitive dependence on initial conditions, i.e. it...

No - really. You mean that in a petition that has been going on for over a decade and has over 30000 signatories, one of them has actually died. Imagine that. What are the odds. Surely it must be a hoax then. Then there is your bogus dentist claim again. Are you trying to say there are 6500...

It is not my definition of scientist. You explicitly made reference to their definition, so I used that. Me personally, I would count the PhDs as scientists, but not MS and below. That still works out to several times your 2500 claim. Regarding dentists, you claimed the bulk, not one or a...

You made a couple of claims regarding the petition. Some of them were easy to check out. I did. They were false. - You claimed "Mickey Mouse" and other fake names are on the petition. False - they are not. - You claimed it is a "bulk email petition". False - it is not. - You claimed "they've...