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    Mistake Proofing Trading: Poke Yoke

    When Edward Demming when to Japan introduce "continous Process Improvement" to the auto industry, a method came out of it called Poke Yoke. As the story goes on a manufacturing line they were assembling buttons on machines. The problem was , the assemblers were forgetting to put the spring...
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    would you give it all up to be super rich ??

    Excessive money can be a curse. Sudden wealth can be even more so. Earning something is more vaulable than actually having it in retrospect. Most people have NO CLUE what it means to have even 2 million. What is worse, if you do come by it sundenly, then you are often surrounded by this...
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    Just got my first LCD

    Set Refresh rate to 60 Hrz. No the higher 70 or 80 that is used for a CRT
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    Anyonw Ever Use TC2000??

    I had TC2000 for about 2 years. Pros: Good for scanning stocks with Macros Cons: Incomplete data (no Futures) --Feels a bit like a VB app I switched to TS for realtime, more data (futures) and the EL customizable charts. I miss the easy scanning features but not much else...
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    seattle traders

    In Seattle Here.... Cheers
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    candlestick question

    Rather than looking for particular matches, look at the general pattern. Bars up with waves, A long bar up, Several spinnning top doji type patterns indicating a pause. Let's see, a run up, then a pause. What would you bet upon? Not necessarly a slam dunk top, but that is not what you...
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    Uninterruptable power supply devices

    I got the TrippLite 800 BC Pro It failed after 6 months and I got a new one since then (free) after I shipped the 50 pund beast back to them. Their site is good for doing the load needs. I acutally have used it several times because the circut breaker in the house went off. This is...
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    Acapulco ?

    PST Means Chicago open at 6:30. Close at 1:15. I got to wake up by 6:00 at least... Cheers from Seattle
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    Laptop/notebook PC recommendations anyone?

    Dual Monitor support is in Win XP. I would think it is in Win2K since it has been around since Win98 and exposed in the UI in various forms since then. In the XP display properties one just has to check the "extend my Win desktop..." check box Cheers
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    Computer maintenence

    GATrader The error you got is complaining about a registry key missing or invalid. Unless one knows what the values should be, it is hard to fix. Usually they are set at SETUP time and then programatically adjusted through the UI or directly by the program that uses them . As for the...
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    Computer maintenence

    In XP Go to Control Pannel Change to Classic View Select Computer Administration Select Computer Management Select Disk Management This allows you to tweak the drive letters and see status, do formats etc.
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    Computer maintenence

    GA Trader, Yep that is roughly it. When you select a drive, see if you can get one with a free controller card. Sometimes they throw one in. Also bigger is not always better. For a main drive I use 40-80Gb drives which are plenty. Then I put extra $$ into another drive. You might...
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    Computer maintenence

    A couple of place that are cool tweakXP.com Some of the stuff is fine others are a bit too hard core for me. Tweaks I like are: /NoGUIBoot in MSCONFIG disabling unneeded startup items Turn off indexing Turn off Show windows contets when dragging (esp on no pentium chips) Where to...
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    Computer maintenence

    This is for those who are asking: Starting with a new HD is the easiest since reformatting an existing one with XP is a bit harder. Make sure you have your orginal disks. Get disk imaging software so you don't have to do this again. Install the new disk as you primary disk and put in...
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    Computer maintenence

    GATrader, Sorry to hear about your problem. I would proceed with caution with the existing drive. Things that go wrong with the HD include. -- controller no longer recognizes it as a boot drive -- Power servo fails, hence disk cant spin as it should -- OS boot files gone bad...
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    Computer maintenence

    Clearly I was wrong to say "every 6-9 months" one should load an clean OS copy. What I should have said is: At your discretion... :D I do it when: 1) The hard disk spaced alledgedly used does equal the amount reported used by Windows. How far off, well, it has got to be WAY off...
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    Laptop/notebook PC recommendations anyone?

    Mark1 Nice setup. I think the heat problem I am experince is directly related to TradeStation and its CPU intensive nature. It is a real hog. My Trade order entry machine is fine in CPU and Heat. Cheers!
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    Computer maintenence

    Have not used the current version. It is a pretty simple task to perform. I would go for less $$. There were custom ones written by interns around. I bet there is a shareware version. I know Drive Image SE works. Even allows one to adjust the partion size while backing up if there...
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    Finding Liquidity to watch

    This is a newbie question. I am trying to compose a list of assets and most liquid contracts. For Example: SPY == ES on CME QQQ == NQ on CME CAN$ == CD on CME I can't seem to find an electronic vehichle for Euro == ??? Is it all pit traded ?? Gold == YG on CBOT. Is...
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    Computer maintenence

    One more thing Gnome has going for him. Multiple HDs All machine should have 2 HD. Two physical disks. On the second disk you can partiion and put a drive image of the C drive on it. Hard Disks are cheap. If you like high performance get a seperate controller card with a the new...
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