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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from bone: No. Teach a street kid good quant skills, and he becomes an excellent trader. Teach a quant to trade, and he becomes a gambler...

How much was lost due to crooks versus how much was simply evaporated due to the bubble deflating? Most of it was just the bubble deflating. Busting all those bad guys would not reinflate it. Max

Jeez QDZ, I just took you off my ignore list because I saw the new poll, but now I read this. Blaming somebody's suicide on a "crooked market" is nuts. Most of the market is not crooked, a little avaricious maybe, less than truthful most of the time for sure. She should have been counseled...

You are off my ignore list! (like that is a big deal). When I hit the big time my first order of business is going to be to travel the world and find a place to emigrate to. Climate, culture and tax haven is what I'm thinking of, then in the background are some brown skinned women.....some...

Any politician that tried to pin the charge of "lost all the little guy's money" on some business leaders would look like an idiot, third worldish dictatorship rhetoric, at best. Max

It is the odd problem that a lot of customers could live with, and it might have been very difficult to catch in the testing phase of the processor development. Intel sets the standard, maybe they did not quite share all the information necessary for AMD to meet the standard. I have never worked...

Tradestation reported that their average account gained 7% in 2000. I believe that most of those accounts are automatically traded, not real sure about that. Max

I remember the RoadRunner cartoons, the coyote always got things delivered from the Acme company, hope this works out better for you that it ever did for him!! Max

I hope that happens, "open that danged tap buddy". Talk about your tax dollars at work!! As far as inspectors go, Iraq had years to hide stuff, it could be in the neighboring countries for all we know and could take decades to find. I know that if I were an inspector in a police state like...

Looks good. I have TS2000 and haven't even used half the features, looks like they recreated it in a newer, more maintainable coding format (based on the idea they can come out with a new version every 3 months.) That may mean that they will do ongoing bug fixes as well. If their brokerage is...

I think you can wire funds out of IB with a single click after you set up the information with them. You should only have to stop trading long enough to make the transfer. Max

Uhhh ok, I gotta make a list 1) check spelling 2) expect people to take me serious. :( Max

So I said to myself, "self....". I call myself a stock trader. When they ask if I have a license to do that I tell them "hell no, it's basically unregulated, even the communists would not dare wade in where there was that much money washing around every day". Then when they give me a hot tip...

Pessimism abounds at a market bottom. It's like being depressed, you feel like you have always been like this and always will be like this. Not true at all however (unless you are a really bad trader I suppose). I would like to propose a non-depressed scenario: Baby boomers know at this point...

Sounds like you are uncertain that your system is correct when the pressure is on and you use disgression. That means you are not a system trader and you are not a disgressionary trader either, you are a systemessionary trader. You have a mess in the middle of your trading system. BTW there...

What a way to spend a Friday night. I took statistics 101, twice, and it was a while ago but here goes. The probability of any letter being in the wrong mailbox is 29/30. The probability of 29 of them being in the wrong mailbox is 29/30 to the 29th power or .37413, which is the same as...

Excel crashed repeatedly on my Win98 machine this morning, "low on resources", etc. Should I upgrade to Win2k or XP? Max

The data can be different from one server to the next. Max

50%. My method? I got a hat and made three...... Max

I bought a book in 1996 in which the author, Prechter, was using Elliot Waves to predict that the "end of civilization" would be in 1995!! He was still selling the book a year after the supposed end, which causes me to question his character as well as his judgement. He just came out with...