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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    Would it be easier if simply 20% of all profits made are simply blocked from being withdrawn so whether you withdraw monthly, weekly or completely randomly you always know how much is available for withdrawal and how much is blocked? Question is, can you use those blocked funds (20% of...
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    Books Better than Dale Carnegie's "How To Influence People"?

    It depends on the task.
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    Old Dog new to E.T.

    You're barking up the wrong tree accusing atticus of multiple aliases. That's a fast road to nowhere. Honest advice: 1) Don't make another post on this thread. In fact, ask the moderators to close it. 2) Keep posting your trades in your journal thread. If you're legitimate, you will...
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    Ramadan Mubarak! Happy Ramadan, Everybody!

    Depending on the time of the year and the latitude where you live, dawn to dusk can be a very long time.
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    On the 50k account, to get the same 300k i.e. 6 times, the vig is zero according to what Don has written.
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    28% on the 20k deposit yes but... 1.87% on the 300k leveraged amount for the year. If the initial deposit were 50k it would require 0% for the same leveraged amount. Just thinking aloud here.
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    Visual Basic

    In your first post you said you coded your system in Visual Basic. Was that Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic.NET? Many people will assume you are talking about Visual Basic 6 when you simply say Visual Basic without the explicit mention of .NET Some people who were criticising Visual Basic...
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    Best book on Lifting

    I'm not sure how you reached the conclusion that you would lose fat and gain muscle. Unlike fat, the body does not effectively store excess amino acids so proteins should be consumed regularly througout the day. Pre-workout protein consumption has be shown to be more effective than...
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    Fastest Growing Religions

    Yes, according to the World Christian Database, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world over the period of 2000-2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_be_the_fastest-growing_religion In terms of the current breakdown of numbers: 1) Christianity 2.1 billion 2) Islam 1.5...
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    Working with system developers

    Just playing devil's advocate. If the programmer is not paid for the work then it is equivalent to the programmer investing capital equal to the amount he would have been paid. From that perspective, there isn't a difference between the investor and the programmer. In other words, it's not...
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    Bought Book Via Amazon, Shipped From India

    Selling at Amazon.com fees and pricing
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    Bought Book Via Amazon, Shipped From India

    Was it an Amazon Marketplace purchase? If it was, Amazon aren't buying the books for resale. The book was bought directly from India as an individual. [EDIT: Just re-read your original post. Associated retailer is a third-party. Amazon just facilitates the transaction]
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    Bought Book Via Amazon, Shipped From India

    Nothing. "There are no penalties for students who import books for their own use, under a 1998 Supreme Court decision that ruled that manufacturers who sell goods more cheaply overseas than in the United States have no protection against having their products sold back to the American...
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    Bought Book Via Amazon, Shipped From India

    These books are printed legally in India under copyright. Contrary to the misinformation you're being fed they are not counterfeit and are primarily intended for sale to the Indian market and surrounding areas.
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    Working with system developers

    Does an investor deserve a return on their investment when they invest in an idea? They are simply supplying capital and didn't come up with the idea.
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    Trouble buying dollars.

    It made me chuckle too. This is pretty much standard practice all over the world. What currency is used to pay for imports? Where does that currency come from? However, I do agree the terminal fees at the airports in the Philippines are a joke.
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    Java vs C++ or C#

    Congratulations.
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    Java vs C++ or C#

    Why don't you ask them yourself? That's what I did 4/5 years ago and that's what I was told. I'm sure there's a lot of native code involved too. My point was, as per the topic of the thread, in the absence of more specific non-functional requirements Java is fine for mission-critical...
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    Java vs C++ or C#

    Java is used all over the place for mission-critical systems and has been for a number of years. I'll give you one relevant example: Lime Brokerage, who execute up 3-5% of US equity market volume and average 750 million shares a day (2008), use Java-based infrastructure for HFT...
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