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I use eSignal and am seeing it too. Nobody posted a problem on it to their message board yet, though.

In New Jersey, for a Blue Cross Blue Shield indemnity policy for 1 person, with a $10,000 deductible (the highest available), the rate is $234.55. For a $1000 deductible it would be $672.51! I doubt many states have worse rates than this.

The US dollar index has made another leg down, declining nearly 13% in 4 months, from the high of 99.37 on 9/3/03 to a low of 86.36 today. But people go merrily along, buying up stocks, with seemingly not a care in the world. Does the majority really believe this is of no consequence, or even...

I find the "@griculture Online" site interesting www.agriculture.com though it's not just about agriculture fundamentals.

Almost all countries went off the gold standard by 1914, so 1914 is a key year. After WW I, many countries went back to a gold standard temporarily, only to go off it again in the 1930s. A summary by country is shown here: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/officer.gold.standard.php Other...

How about Barrons and Investors Business Daily?

I second that. I am not excited one way or the other by this news (and I have no short positions.) It seems to me that when the fugitives elude capture for months, the goverment says it doesn't matter - they have already been marginalized. But when they are finally captured, all of sudden it...

I was down for just 8 minutes. But when that happens, I get very untrusting and very reluctant to put on new trades.

and the market is on the move.

Down from 10:18 to 10:26 and now down again from 10:44.

But those kinds of gains are always possible for the individual stock picker in any economy. You are accepting all the risk of that one name, without the diversification that comes from an index.

Mecro, Over what timeframe did the 1000%+ occur? Tom

I've never had realtime quotes for a pit-traded contract. It seems like there must be, but I am not sure: is there always a quoted bid and ask, even for the thinly-traded contracts?

The Nikkei low was in April and you would have been done very well to have entered long at the end of May. Yet even delaying until July / August left a 20% gain into September / October. To me that's a fine short-term opportunity. Without any real confidence in whether Japan is finally...

I think it's late now, yes, but as long as the masses keep piling in, there could still be further to go. But there were suggestions about both Japan and China being good potential investment opportunities many months ago, when it wasn't as late. Basically, it's just common sense to to...

I wasn't thinking of anything short term specifically. Very generally, the point is that you don't need to believe the story. It's probably safest for you if you don't. Trying to remain sceptical and wary, your goal is only to determine where lots of money may continue to flow, and then...

The cynical approach to speculation is to simply always be on the lookout for the really good stories, the ones that are big and becoming more and more widely believed. It doesn't matter if they work out in the end as expected. Real boom or bubble, your aim is to just try to milk each as it...

My Bid and Ask are still YELLOW in TWS and OLD DATA, even after 5 or 6 logons. It's now 3:36.

The TWS connection finally came back at 3:12. But I'm still getting old Bid and Ask data for ES, though eSignal data is fine...

I can't log back into TWS. It worked fine through the FOMC announcement, but then froze later.