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    slippage at IDEALPRO

    Steve, with all due respect, I call BS. You know very well there is no such thing as T&S in forex. What you are showing is strictly from the banks / market makers feeding into your employer's forex platform, IDEALPRO. BTW, not "IDEAL-Pro"... there is no dash... who are you with, again? I...
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    POLL: What is Your Position Sizing Method???

    As Don pointed out, you are not doing it right... need to divide, not multiply, total risk by per-share risk: $1000 / $0.50 = 2000 shares. The smaller your stop loss and the larger your max $ risk, the more shares you could trade. Done this way, this would fall under poll option 2...
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    The National Football League-that was the week that was

    So, the killjoy no-more-cheerleaders-flaunting-visitors memo is for real. Say what? Nah, your laser-focused opponents can't possibly be distracted by all that harmless stretching and warmup in front of their faces... "No word yet on whether it's legal to videotape the...
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    Forex Brokers. Too many!

    Paliz / ziradee: stop talking to yourself.
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    What CTA fee structure you like the most?

    Simons' Medallion Fund's track record and 5/44 fee structure are pretty well known, even to casual observers of the industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/business/24hedge.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons (see Note 4)...
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    Is sex ever a motivation for you to work hard?

    First, you missed the point. "The perfect 10 and up" is an oxymoron. If you're a perfect 10, there can be no up. See? Second, plenty of filthy rich have chosen (rather than "settled for") a 9, an 8 or less... for any one of a number of good and not so good reasons. A girl's looks are...
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    Jim Rogers Sees `Skyrocketing' Prices for Commodities

    Here's that complete interview from this morning (8.21 MB, 05:40): http://www.mediafire.com/?3csnjhluhvd There's a slight audio sync issue in part 2... that doesn't detract from the usual great fun to hear Jim Rogers speak his mind. "Those dumb guys in Washington"... "the clowns in...
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    Finding temporary housing overseas

    Interesting viewpoint. If you are that concerned, why not plan taking a short advance trip to look at a bunch of places and lock one in, in person? Might be worth it.
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    Finding temporary housing overseas

    Also check out craigslist.org . There is a craigslist for over 200 world cities and areas, nearly half outside the US. All in English, for the most part. Spain has 4: Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia. Besides responding to ads, for best results you may want to place your own "housing...
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    Is sex ever a motivation for you to work hard?

    "The perfect 10 and up"... good one. Wouldn't that make those poor 10's all too imperfect? Fun title question, but, you know, your premise is false. In general, the best pussies in the world are reserved for men who are not pussified. They - the women, not the men - can't help it.
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    Source for free software

    LOL. While what they are doing may be "not illegal" in the pseudo-socialist paradise that is Sweden, it's most certainly illegal for an end user to download and run pirated or cracked software in the US, for one. If anyone wants to try out Vista or Office or Photoshop or whatever for free...
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    Is it worth paying a visit to TradersExpo Vegas, being held at the US in November?

    And, what's more, she's a he. Zero doubt.
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    Cheap way to exchange currency

    Yeah. Walk into any major bank branch in the US and take a look at their currency exchange board. It's an unbelievable racket / scam... yet unregulated and therefore perfectly legal. Europe is somewhat less usurious, but not a whole lot.
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    Cheap way to exchange currency

    Makes perfect sense cost-wise, but I'd stick to wire or ACH transfers, instead of paper checks by mail. Especially with IB.
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    Morgan Stanley May Buy Stake in Hedge Fund Traxis founded by Barton Biggs

    Not surprising... asset management has always been an incestuous world.
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    Jokes 2

    Funny if old joke... half-ruined by the unnecessary, Energizer Bunny punchline again. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1577539#post1577539
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    MIT now accepts absolute f%&$ing idiots!

    "It was an art project, meant to entertain career-day visitors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.I.T. sophomore assured security officials after she had been arrested at Boston’s airport yesterday." ... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/us/22airport.html Well, she did...
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    American Dollar and Joe Six Pack

    The reverse "Lake Wobegon effect"? Right, let's switch from a pretty specific, economics OP question to way more fun, wholesale USA bashing. For a self-described "teacher/student," let's hope your own reading/comprehension skills have evolved past the 6th grade. The median IQ of all...
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    Back-ups vs Smart-UPS

    broken links
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