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    Don Bright

    When will all the new changes be announced?
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    PHOENIX TRADING's 2013 Prophet and Loss Journal

    lol... you sound pissed ... :) ... we are deviating now, but here are some more ideas... if you own the home outright, get a HELOC on the house, find a tenant that you can rent it to which will generate enough income to pay for the carrying costs of the house, and use the HELOC funds (not...
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    Best Software For Image Back Up

    for baremetal restores you can get this.. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ and you will need the plus pak... which is what enables the migration piece.. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/#add-migration that is the most cost effective way..
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    PHOENIX TRADING's 2013 Prophet and Loss Journal

    FL is perfect, as an FYI... you can draw to purchase a place from the account without penalties... and there are lots of cheap houses and condos for under $50K (I realize I dont know your family composition) which should help to control costs... as to Bright, you should reach out and find...
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    PHOENIX TRADING's 2013 Prophet and Loss Journal

    not hinting anything... all I will say is that there are creative ways... I dont advise anything at all... in any event, I understand what you are doing, I just know there are better ways... talk to a qualified accountant, unless you already did so... but depending on your living expenses and...
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    PHOENIX TRADING's 2013 Prophet and Loss Journal

    ok.... I am at a lost here.... you are experiencing a 45% dd... and you will be paying penalties when taking those distributions... am sorry, but that is not the wisest thing to do at all... there are more creative ways to have access to those funds, I would suggest you talk to an accountant...
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    Trading vs Investing

    ahhh... I think I understand what you mean now... in that case yes, we trade all the time... and I have traded, not invested, on KWE/ZWA... :)
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    Do You Have To Be Somewhat of a Sociopath To Trade?

    you might like this books then... The Mental ABC's of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement Coaching the Mental Game: Leadership Philosophies and Strategies for Peak Performance in Sports and Everyday Life The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance
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    AmiBroker or R or Python?

    lots of tools, it depends on what you are doing... R is excellent for certain things and has lots of modules and examples out there for modeling and live trading... AmiBroker, is fast and great with baskets... I know a lot of people are masters at it... since you have code on EL, have you looked...
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    Futures Brokerage - does it matter where?

    like Chicago_CTA said, Clearing FCM is best... however, I would be wary of any FCM that is not properly capitalized with a lot of excess funds and that is unable to provide a clear picture as to where their segregated funds are being kept.... to me, that is more important... personally... I like...
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    laptop

    expensive little server... :) ... also T430 is the fatter brother of the T430s.. :) .... my algo strats stuff I run out of net@ccess ... DL DL120G7 with VMWare ESX... so I partition the server as needed depending what software I need to run for the strategies... since i am in IT I do have...
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    Does your Back hurt ? What do you do?

    sadly, I seat most of the time... standing will help... but the issue is that some muscles are constantly stretch and contracted and that tends to weaken them... the best thing you can do is to stay active and do two main exercises... first, roman deadlifts... and second, squats... buy...
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    Trading vs Investing

    not following... my statement is that we are all investors with different timeframes given a view... for example, if I believed Crude was going to continue to appreciate as the dollar continued its decline over the next 6 months, I will enter a trade to reflect that view and use that as...
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    Erin Burnett gets married

    She got her break in TV after writing a "stalker letter" to then-CNN anchor Willow Bay. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0910/gallery.40_under_40.fortune/33.html power of persistence... :)
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    Why Does The World's Largest Hedge Fund Not File 13f's

    hmmm... last I check the world's largest hedge fund was Bridgewater...
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    I just got my ass beat playing blackjack can I write the loss off?

    trading isnt gambling(I dont know about what kind of trading you are doing bud! :)), and you can actually write off your losses depending how you are classified... you should consult your accountant or reach out to these guys... http://www.greencompany.com/
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    Best Software For Image Back Up

    http://www.acronis.com/ they have the best product, IMO, for the retail/consumer market... otherwise, I would say Symc NetBackup... :)
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    IB and cheap money

    sadly, no portfolio margin allowed on IRA accounts.... in any event, here is what I would do... if they would allow me on the IRA account... IB pm allows for 6:1 leverage basically... so leveraging to 1MM is not bad, it is "conservative" to some extent and should allow for some volatility on...
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    Trading vs Investing

    how is that any different from having a "career" aka job, to which you dedicate 10 hours a day or possibly more depending on the field for less money and deductions leading to more taxes? trading is whatever the individual makes off it... IMO.
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