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    What is "Normal" in currency futures: Contango or Backwardation?

    Depends on the relative interest rates of the underlying pair. If the cash pair is interest bearing, then the future will be in contango to account for the foregone interest.
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    Lenovo T61 keyboard - need help please

    Which keys have a third function? Do you mean these ones... http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-62714.html
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    Lose vs. Loose

    I think you're getting a little carried away with that one... http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/oriented?view=uk http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orientated?r=75
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    How does a government make money other than taxes?

    In Bahrain, 60% of government revenue is from petroleum production and processing (according to Wikipedia). Revenue may be obtained from royalties for the local oil and taxes on exported processed products. For financial services such as banking, a common method for Governments to obtain...
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    Never Trade With Oanda If You Want To Trade Seriously

    I stopped trading at Oanda a little over a year ago, when I moved to a broker that supplies futures. Apparently I didn't have problems with Oanda because I didn't try scalping during news events. Unfortunately it seems that's what all the new kids want to do - I don't blame them, if you...
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    Never Trade With Oanda If You Want To Trade Seriously

    It seems the issue is really with the Oanda min/max chart. If you were to spend any amount of time comparing the min/max chart to a candlestick chart you would notice that those types of discrepancies appear all the time. If you had also bothered to look at a candlestick or OHLC chart at the...
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    Intraday FX Player

    It just kept going and going...
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    Trademarking a Business Name

    The business world is not a democracy.
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    Trademarking a Business Name

    Applying for a trade mark is easy. You don't need to use a lawyer if you don't want to. But if you do it yourself your application and subsequent trade mark probably won't give the best protection achievable. Like everything else, you get what you pay for. The fee is only $325 per class -...
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    NZD trading

    I think it is important to bear in mind that essentially the only mandate of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is to maintain price stability - ie control inflation. Unlike the Federal Reserve, the RBNZ is not compelled to prop up low business confidence. I believe the perceived value of the carry...
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    Are there drawbacks to working with such a liquid market?

    Just like free drinks at the casino...
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    30 inch Dell Will this work on my computer.....HELP PLEASE

    An external PCIe setup could be the solution to this sort of problem - it allows you to plug an external video card into your laptop (or desktop). http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/index.html Is basically a box that you install a PCIe X16 card into, which connects to the...
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    "Portfolio" forex charting + OANDA

    You could write it as an indicator in MT4.
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    30 inch Dell Will this work on my computer.....HELP PLEASE

    It appears that your G450 can only go up to 2048 x 1536. A good choice would be a Geforce 8600, which is quite cheap, comes in fanless varieties, and can run two 30" monitors at full resolution. Unfortunately they are only PCIe, which based on the description of your other graphics cards...
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    Task Manager - System Performance

    Hi Joab, I get very similar performance with my backup machine, which is a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. It usually cycles between 40 and 60%, but often peaks up to 80 and 100. For me the main culprit is the Java app running TWS. On my core 2 duo machine, the same setup doesn't peak past 13% -...
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    Ups Back Up Hours Not Minutes

    This post has a summary of the different types: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1711024&#post1711024
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    What's better forex or futures??

    When the value of a currency goes up, it is always relative to another currency - that is, for one to go up, another must go down relative to the first one. So if you were following EUR/USD, AUD/USD and USD/JPY, and the market decided that the USD is now worth less, perhaps following an...
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    Enough already! It's not random

    It's amazing that although you believe the market to be random, the chart contained in your paper written 5 years ago seems to predict the price of the S&P 500 with remarkable accuracy up until the middle of 2007. (sorry, I couldn't resist) :)
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    democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

    So you want to bring back Ross Perot? :)
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    Noob question about FX on IB

    I agree - the FX futures are much better - faster execution as well. Only problem is the liquidity can get very thin on non-majors outside of US trading hours.
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