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http://www.ruthroosevelt.com I have not had any direct experience with this lady, but she has some interesting articles and some good books out. The website she has seems to cover a lot of the questions about what coaching can accomplish in trading. I really like her honest and...

You sound a lot as if you are overwhelmed by the information overload. Employ the KISS principle at once - study RAW price action - no indicators, no complications, do papertrading for a good long time until you are seeing consistently positive results with the papertrading. Decide to...

Questions: 1. What kind of jobs were you trying to fill? 2. What was the pay range for those jobs? If they are low level jobs paying sh*t then this isn't surprising - there is always a shortage of people willing to work for below market wages, with the exception of methheads and...

If you order it under the Small Business section, they will include an XP disk with it. Under home unless it has changed, they usually include nothing, or you have to pay an extra $10 and then you get the stupid recovery partition.

I heard somebody on the radio today refer to the tasteless large tattoo on a woman's lower back as the "Tramp Stamp" - sounds about right to me. BTW, I know she isn't really a financial news reporter, but this is my favorite babe on TV, on Dallas Texas local Fox station...

I have been in the software engineering industry for 21 years. This whole "shortage of qualified programmers and engineers" thing is laughable. This cyclical line of BS has been going on since 1989-90. It repeats about every 7-10 years. First, there was this massive "shortage" of...

You make some good points about when a trading career makes sense, versus when it is more problematic. But one overriding theme on this ET site that keeps coming through is "Don't try to make it trading full-time - stay safe in a 9-5 job, etc." It seems like people on this site are...

I think you may want to examine whether or not such a switch is really going to be a positive thing for you. I graduated in the mid 80's with a BS in Computer Engineering, with a software focus. I have been in software development for 21 years now. I went through some phases like you are...

I figured it to be a combination of 'woof' regarding the doggy nature of the stock, and 'hoof' suggesting the fact that longs may feel they have just been kicked in the head by a horse....lol

I disagree that you can't have a college course on a subject that lacks academic rigor. The Psychology 101 class I took in college was an exercise in studying strongly held emotional beliefs of some "leaders in the field" including sexually deviant individuals and drug addicts. Most of...

I had a Toshiba laptop machine that did this once. Eventually, I found an article that described the fact that they were overclocking the CPU and it caused overheating. A new BIOS that did not overclock it solved the problem (although the CPU obviously ran slower afterwards). The same...

A related question - if you opted out in the beginning, could you then opt in later if desired?

They would get more credibility by cutting their own salary/benefits FIRST, which is probably nearly the biggest item of fat in the whole company budget anyways. I have zero respect for any CEO/CFO that lays off workers or does wage freezes or cost cutting, if they are not willing to take...

As a software engineer for 20+ years now, this is an irritating syndrome I have observed all along. Somebody reads the "programming" is a skill that gets decent pay, or is required for something they want, and then schemes some way to quickly be accepted as a "programmer" because they have...

A couple big problems with this approach: 1. Insurance companies are given "cut rates" which are much less than the stated rates. This means they actually pay a lot less than the stated cost for most procedures and supplies. Uninsured individuals are going to be charged the stated...

I think the reason you are getting this flak is the way the thread started - The Prop Trading Industry EXPOSED. That title suggests that anybody reading is going to expect to see some kind of useful details about exactly what happened, what firms were involved, and something much more...

Several serious problems I see here.... 1. Either trade very small size, or quit trading entirely and study some more before starting any new trades. It is probable you have no real edge at all currently. You must PROVE that you have one before you will actually have enough...

You know what's funny is when somebody gets "laid off", "fired", or "downsized" from a corporate job - the family never question whether the corporate system is a scam or if you should stop pissing away 40 hours of your life working for a company that rewards your loyalty and efforts with...

Try this to login through the Web: https://wt1.interactivebrokers.com/webtrader/servlet/login FWIW, I am having the same issue today with logging in - socket errors, no explanation why.....

On the whole I agree with you. I just have a hard time believing the market will ever get "free enough" for a true, fair equilibrium minimum wage to be reached. In a true free market operated with integrity, if the minimum wage is lower than the "true equilibrium point", then it is...