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I always pay attention to what you have to say, whether it be about trading on the Opening Orders Thread or anything else you care to post about. What I take from what you had to say, is that you and your family believe in living below your means, at least not beyond your means. And that...

There is NO DEPRESSION if you are able to hold on to your capital and have sources of income. Much of my childhood was spent in historical research on the effects of the Great Depression. Not that as kid I was doing research, but I heard the stories time and time again and everyone had a...

To Arthur Deco, You pushed a button with the word serenity when you entitled a thread with serenity in its title. Of course it might be said that Seinfeld pushed the same button more publicly long before this thread. I looked it up, serenity may be the most spiritual word that is...

I think that you attribute to ET what is found most everywhere in cyberspace. The anonymity of cyberspace give the small in stature and intellect enough courage to step up and take a swing. Something they are not testicularly equipped to do when standing on terra firma. Dr Johnson said...

I like Glass, Einaudi, and Tallis. I listen to Classic FM from London, England which may not be so much minimalist but rather populist, in that it treats classical music as both popular and commercial which has been its place for most of history. I love to trade the open to Dawn Upshaw's...

Even though my first post took the cheap comedic route, there are some good posts on this thread. Philosophically, differential calculus taught me a lot. It taught me to look at solving problems in terms of maximizing one variable while minimizing another. In this case going back to...

I thought this thread was going to be about Frank Costanza. Anyways, since it is not, I will offer a "Serenity Now" chant for any other reader who was expecting some Frank Costanza schtick.

I started actively trading out of my home using a device called the phone. I had real times quotes fed to what would be now a primitive computer using a box that got its feed from cable television subcarriers. The time from decision to enter and execution was not measure in milliseconds...

I think Barry said that he was going to CREATE jobs before he said that he was going to SAVE jobs. Obviously, the economy is DISPOSING of jobs faster than this fast talker can SAVE jobs, or faster than he change verbs for a better SPIN JOB.

Sears has a heart. But does Vegas have a heart? In the classic Albert Brooks movie "Lost in America" Brooks wife loses most of his nest egg late at night while Brooks sleeps at the tables. Brooks a former advertising executive in one of the funniest scenes in modern film that I can...

What Happened to the Fortune Michael Jackson Made? He spent it on a SLOW SELF-INDULGENT DEATH which took too long to term it suicide.

Buffy invested his credibility in Barry because he thought Barry be the second coming of his divine FDR. It will take some time to see where that gets the Oracle of Omaha. Right now Barry be surfing the last big wave the MSM can muster before it fade into the ash heap of history...

Tell them that you do the OPPOSITE of buy and hold. You have no long term money in the market that gets smaller with each quarterly statement. They should understand the inherent success of doing the opposite of what so called "experts" advised them to do, advised by a collecting a very...

I think a saw Dylan Rattigan as I was channel surfing this morning. He was boring the hell of the most beautiful creature on PMSNBC, Alexis Witt. There was a crawl beneath him which said he was the host of Morning something, but did not name a channel. I had the sound off of course, but I felt...

Call me stupid, but I am of the opinion that most prospective home buyers are EMPLOYEED. When EMPLOYMENT starts to rise, I am led to believe that it would be GOOD NEWS for the housing market.

I will not comment on the anger of emotion. But to make a living trading, one must have strong enough emotions to ADJUST to the market. The market DOES NOT ADJUST to the individual. The trader who does not adjust to the market, is simply called a LOSER. And yet on this forum, there...

David Mamet explored the confidence trick as you describe it as well as anyone has ever explored it theatrically. I raise my glass to David Mamet.

Discipline is a CLICHE. Trading is finding the balance between the intuitive and the analytical.

I usually listen to Dawn Upshaw's Girl with Orange Lips when I trade the open. During the day, I am partial to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and listening to Opera without Words employing Puccini's operas.

I can only speak for myself. My people person skills were marginal at best when I was part of the so called working world. After ten years of trading out of my home, I am fairly certain that I could not rustle up enough people person skills to even last a week. But I am closer to sixty...