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If you were against the war in Afghanistan, then you were part of a very small minority. History will be the judge of how successful Iraq is. The majority of the surplus evaporated with the recession he inherited from Clinton. As a % of GDP, this deficit is on the low end of deficits that...

And the Clintons made a bucketload through questionable practices with cattle futures, overnighters in the Lincoln bedroom, fundraising from Chinese nationals, and peddling pardons to people like Marc Rich. I'll bet you kept a lid on your outrage back then.

On the flip side, making the unsubstantiated claim that Bush was AWOL (and therefore a felon) while in the Air National Guard is negative campaigning. Accusing Bush of lying to the world about WMDs to launch a war in Iraq when at the time every other country's intelligence organization -- as...

So be it. It was bound to happen considering the charged issues on terrorism and the economy that we're dealing with here. I sincerely hope that voter turnout will hit north of 60% in '04. Hypocrisy on both sides was expected, though I have yet to see any substantive policy proposals from...

Um, all of these agreements you speak of were largely formalizing the conclusions of a war, where there was already a clear victor. LOL

MOTTO: (To be stated slowly, in a deep, slow voice.) George. W. Bush. Bring. It. On.* (Then, more quickly, and in a whiny baritone voice) *(Except you can't mention 9/11. That's politicizing it. Or my lack of an jobs and economic policy. That's just out. Oh, and you can't talk about my...

Sad to see people still supporting the appeasement of terrorists. The Spanish election sends a great message to terrorist groups around the world -- that they can influence the results of all national elections through the use of well timed attacks. Sadly, I expect many more attacks now that...

Excellent. Thanks.

Any FREE sources out there? Does such data even exist for purchase? I'm just looking for what price the last after market trade took place at. Thanks!

I'm trying to figure out the syntax for the sharesAlloc attribute so that I can submit an order through the API to my Friends and Family Advisory account. The User Guide and the example provided in the latest TwsDde.xls file imply that the allocation is by number of shares as opposed to a ratio...

Sorry. I noticed the last sentence of the first paragraph was cut off. What I meant to say was, "If I had access to more capital, I could (possibly) make enough of a return such that my drawdowns wouldn't take as big a chunk out of my profits."

I have a question to all you experienced traders out there. I've been trading a system for the last year that's managed to yield me a great return, but on a relatively small account ($50k). Unfortunately, drawing down the account to pay my bills is putting a significant drag on the growth of...

But you've already made the jump psychologically from our current situation to having a police state, and one of your base assumptions is that the current leadership is "unscrupulous". The Congress and Supreme Court (with a couple of isolated exceptions) have so far accepted the extra steps...

I never quite understood the arguments of lost liberties and creeping totalitarianism made by alarmists in this country. Most reasonable people understand that one of the administration's highest priorities is to prevent another attack from happening, and that it is a VERY difficult job...

I just spoke to someone at the CA Department of Corporations, and she said that even if I have just one "client" and the account is small, if I receive any type of payment at all I need to register with the state of CA and get licensed (a bunch of paperwork plus $125/yr). Plus, I would at a...

Does anyone have a link for the state regulations in California governing the F&F investment adviser role? I'm only managing a couple of friends' accounts with a very small account value. I searched through the ca.gov website and couldn't find anything about the number of clients or total...

I was trying to figure out how to set a trailing stop in Excel (I was trying to do something more exotic than what was allowed in IB), unfortunately I kept on hitting up against the problem of circular references. However, I've figured out that all you have to do is go into Tools-->Options, and...

I downloaded IB's TwsDde.xls file from their website, and I've been able to connect the file to my existing IB account login and successfully get live quote data. However, I want to connect the .xls file to IB's edemo account so that I can run some simulated transactions. Unfortunately, when I...

Thanks for the info. This year so far I've conducted 650 round trip trades, trading a total of 250k shares with a value of $5.4M. I'm hoping that that's enough to be considered an active trader (especially since I've relied entirely on my gains to pay the bills this year so far!). I found a...

I plan to file my 2003 return with "trader status", though only as a sole proprietor (i.e., I'm not making enough to justify a LLC). Now, I read the March & April 2003 articles by Robert Green in Active Trader magazine, which discuss at length the filing approach of a sole proprietor. I have...