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    Doping that could help traders

    As long as you're concentrating on the location of the nearest bathroom!
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    Doping that could help traders

    That may be difficult if I'm dead.
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    Goldman Sachs predicts $105 crude

    When the pros speak, the sheep listen -- especially if the sheep are already living in fear of higher oil prices. The economy is so shaky that it's at the edge of the cliff and Goldman may just be giving it a Nietzschean push. But as always, fundamentals, not one group's opinion, will decide...
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    The open source thread

    Here's a link to a similar thread from days of yore. Hope it helps. Not to sound rude, but it would be really nice if these guys could put their egos aside and work together on one really good trading app rather than multiple competing (and perpetually incomplete) efforts.
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    Hackers after your funds

    OpenBSD rules.
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    TWS under RH-64 Linux

    It looks like it's trying to initialize gtk and can't find it. Do you have Gnome Toolkit properly installed? Is java properly installed? Not that this post is much overt help, but in the past I have had a few ugly little linux problems, and it's usually that I've compiled something into the...
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    Going public with a system ruins it?

    If your system depends on perfect entries and exits to be profitable, it's not much of a system.
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    Going public with a system ruins it?

    That's one opinion. I could just as easily state the reverse. Without any proof to back it up, it's irrelevant. As jbt pointed out, Bollinger Bands are EXTREMELY well known and still work if you know how to use them. In fact, ALL technical analysis was originally taught by someone, sometime...
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    Going public with a system ruins it?

    Good idea -- rephrase the problem. Rephrasing a problem is a good tool for thinking outside the box. How about this: "Is my system dependent on perfect entries and exits, and thus requires secrecy? If somebody else knows my system, does that person knowing my secret invalidate my logic?" People...
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    Going public with a system ruins it?

    IMHO, if you're trading a very small OTC stock with an average volume of 1000 shares traded per day, then yeah, you shouldn't let anyone else know what you're planning on doing -- until after it's done -- but if you're trading oil, coffee, IBM, or the Euro, nobody knows and nobody cares about...
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    Going public with a system ruins it?

    Going public with a system ruins it? Take heart, it was probably worthless before it went public.
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    User Names On Elitetrader (a fun thread)

    Swissy sounded gay, so cable seemed a logical second choice.
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    Is this the real American Dream?

    He's written Part Two. He's a bum, all right, but he's a bum who lives in the Cayman Islands. He's "living the life." Every time I've been down to a tropical tax*cough*-- er, vacation spot, I've had the same thought -- it would be so easy to purposely miss my plane, choosing instead to lie on...
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    Simple as 1-2-3

    The neverending junk mail after you give him your email address will be the most exciting.
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    The more I look at it, the more I think everybody here is right. "We The People" suffer from increasingly socialistic governmental policies -- in areas where socialistic policies will help impoverish, control, or restrict our freedom. In the areas where the taxpayers would actually appreciate...
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    He seems to be right... if you consider that a weakness (Bill Gates doesn't think so). But if you look at the wealth of the top 10% compared to the bottom 90% of the Americans, you'll see how much faster the top earners have raked it in in the last decade or so, while the bottom's standard of...
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    True. In the last 50 years or so, the President has been consistently issuing "Executive Orders" which increase the power of the office -- America is nearly back to a Monarchy. Every system needs immutable checks and balances. Watch Michael Badnarik's Free Online Constitution Course and learn...
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    NICE post, Cap. Now you got me thinking outside the box.
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    Can you think out of the box: show that Capitalism REQUIRES Socialism :D

    Capitalism requires Socialism to function properly just as God requires the Devil. Socialism is a boogeyman that keeps capitalists on the straight and narrow path. You can see the result of the imbalance left by the general death of socialism (USSR collapsing); the US has adopted more socialist...
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