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Just my personal opinion, but you could probably spend far less on your processor with reasonable performance. For example, you could go with the new Core 2 Duo E8400 for about $250 CND (dual core, 3.0GHz) or Core 2 Quad Q6600 (quad, 2.4GHz). I would personally choose the E8400 out of the...

Why not invest in an ETF, such as T.XFN, if you want to invest in Canadian banks right now?

Horizons is starting to have a nice range of double beta ETFs for Canadian investors on the TSX. Looks like they just added two pairs of ETFs (up/down) for Natural Gas and Oil. http://www.hbpetfs.com/

Interesting article, thank you for posting this.

Good points, I would add a third "evil" to this list - allowing fundamental analysis of a company to interfere with trading rules. For example, I currently trade with a very small account for the purpose of gaining some "real" trading experience. I have a tendency to screen for stocks, find...

I agree with the rumours that Apple will launch some sort of PDA/tablet type device, with mainstream appeal. Three reasons for this: - nobody has really done a tablet "right" thus far, in terms of price and size matrix, i.e. relatively low cost and smallish form factor. - Apple has a...

Definitely an interesting milestone, we will see how long it holds. I am honestly quite intrigued to see how long the current Canadian dollar strength and US dollar weakness will persist for.

Had the opportunity to read through Satyajit's paper today - excellent read, I think I will look into his books. Thanks for posting this.

I don't have much time right now, so I am going to post two brief comments to help you out: - you have mixed up cause and effect for much of your original post - stock prices are generally speaking representations of future earnings

I think that people often fear that which they do not understand, as well as fear showing that they do not understand something, and that they manifest that in a number of ways. My medium term goal is to trade full-time in the future. I am a very analytical person, so I devote quite a bit of...

I can't see China choosing to liquidate treasuries and sell US dollars, a significantly higher Chinese currency valuation would mean that multi-nationals would simply relocate production to other countries. Also, as another poster already mentioned, what happens to China internally when their...

Just finished the book, definitely a good read. One key aspect that made it enjoyable for me was the historical perspective, since much of the book was based on anecdotal tales from the days of the Turtles. I do agree with a couple of other comments to some extent...I did wonder why the author...

Dumping of treasuries (and subsequent conversion into Yuan) should decrease the value of USD, not increase it (since it would result in selling dollars). I doubt that large-scale liquidation of these holdings by any party would be viewed as a positive event for the USD.

I see something similar quite regularly up here in Canada - many of our newspapers regularly quote real estate companies regarding the current state of housing. I sort of doubt that I will ever read a "sky is falling in real estate" statement from them...

I'm curious - did you gain much out of the experience? I have sometimes considered this as a possible move for a year or two, partially to see things from the broker's perspective.

Now we just need a reality show about day trading. :D

The purpose of my post was not to merely state that "x" amount of dollars per night/flight/etc. is expensive, because you are correct, each individual's definition of "expensive" is relative to their wealth. The intent was to instead provide another example of the choices that we all make, many...

I think that one could easily extend much of this discussion to overall "lifestyle" spending, many individuals likely spend far more than they should, even on the simpler choices. For example, I recently had the opportunity to travel for the first time to the Bahamas, for a company paid trip...

Exactly - the good looking women became fewer and fewer as I hit the later years of my degree. One more class to go this Spring, and then I'm done! :)

It's a pity that the professors at my university didn't believe in doing what you describe, it would have made my degree much simpler. Yes, I am being sarcastic.