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I got one of my more useful tips for using news from Larry Williams*. He watches the news to see if the market reacts as it SHOULD to the news -- any divergence signals an extraordinarily strong or weak market, depending on which way it differs. This tip was pretty useful during the DotCom Boom...

As always, Scientist, good post (the big one two up, that is). A lot of people flame you for posting, but you always have a solid viewpoint and back it up with solid reasons. Good stuff.

Do you mean like an RSS feed? If you don't know about them, look them up.

Looking at the chart, I could've sworn trading was halted five minutes after the open.

LOL! Did you throw up? This ride had the potential to be HUGE! (no, I'm not going to demand your finest meats and cheeses).

Hmmp. It's turning out kind of disappointing considering the amount of hype and buildup... The whole market is disappointing me recently. I long for the old days of the 'real' boom, when I pocketed $40,000 in a day more than once, effortlessly, on vaporware IPOs. The psychology seems to have...

You gotta love overhyped IPOs. It's like we're back in the good old dot com days when Qualcomm went from like $30 to $500 in less than a year, and the "experts" predicted it would hit $1000. Professionals (in my humble opinion) would rather have steady solid gains, and thus avoid IPO's...

He gets his numbers the same place everyone else does -- he pulled it out of his butt. Last I heard, if you have stops in place, you can't lose more than that, right? And since Forex trends so well, you're more likely to make money if you have the discipline to follow a trend. Just don't use the...

At my "day job", Dun & Bradstreet regularly offers to sell us credit and ownership information on other companies we deal with. I asked a couple of pals who work at big companies about our own records, and one of them got me our information. It was 60% inaccurate at least. I examined the...

Either way is fine. Now that I have a hardware router/firewall, I prefer it. If you're serious about the speed of OANDA, you should really backup all your crap and reformat Windows. Install ONLY the few apps you NEED to get the job done. All the other stuff will distract you anyway. I find that...

Scientist's better than most on ET. I've picked up a couple good tips from his posts, which is more than I can say for 80% of the posters here. But I'll admit -- I haven't been following ET 100%, so I have no idea why everyone's against him.

True, but in manufacturing, it only makes sense (for the American-style capitalist) to employ workers for the smallest wage possible, while charging the highest price the market will withstand. It is about enriching the shareholders through any means necessary. I'm not saying it's right, I'm...

These men might be born in the USA, but I just bought an Apple PowerBook, and I tracked it on the FedEx website right from the factory -- in Shanghai. When capitalism is functioning properly, money flows to where it can do the most good, the most efficiently. In many cases, that means China or...

I believe there's a yearly charge to get set up to accept VISA cards, a few hundred bucks, but I (of course) could be wrong...

A pay site won't fix anything except guarantee ET a better class of buttheads. Only the snooty rich buttheads will be able to post. But you'll still have buttheads, who will not be as "kickable" because they've PAID to be here, which should give them some rights to do whatever they want... and...

No problems, but firewalls and especially antivirus software hampers system performance, and java based apps like OANDA's aren't that peppy to begin with. I now use a router with a built in hardware firewall, which works great. And I set my computer to check for viruses only every once in a...

Here's the Readers Digest version of the Woodward Interview, from Salon.com: Woodward: Saudis agree to rig oil prices In Bob Woodward's appearance on 60 Minutes last night -- transcript here -- he told Mike Wallace that the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was...

I find the printable pages don't work good for me so what I do is modify the URL in the address bar like this: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=30950&perpage=999 I add the "&perpage=999" part at the end to allow ET to give me one long page with the same beigeness we...

This "leaking the story early" stuff is irrelevant. Reuters likely posted the story a minute or two early to give their website time to refresh by 8:30. And they of course want to scoop the other news agencies in order to "add value" to their service, causing more people to choose Reuters. But...

Yeah, I asked my stockbroker buddy a few years ago what he was holding. He laughed and said "Nothing, that's a scam for suckers! You know that!" The only time he got in was when the market was exploding and he would just buy every internet stock, hold it for a week, then take his 50% return and...