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On the contrary, the United States functions best when Congress is too divided to take any action. Unfortunately, lawmakers have this innate need to keep creating new laws every year, even when existing laws are sufficient. We are all safest when Congress is locked up in an internal power...

Are you telling me that the Iraq war critics are complaining because they want a bloody war of vengeance? I'm highly skeptical of that. Honestly, there is no way to do what you want without turning into the very enemy we are fighting. If you are saying we should either do that or do nothing...

You can't show a loss in the Gross Profit column, but I understand your meaning. Are your assumptions of their rate of growth based in fact? Can you provide some backing? -Raystonn

At the time it was thought that WMD did exist in Iraq. If you search for something and do not find it, does that mean you should never have searched? Considering the fact that Saddam was in violation of many, many U.N. Resolutions, his credibility was shot. We could not trust his word on...

To lie means intentional deception. Please show some facts that prove intention. Also, when you have a list of reasons for going to war, and one reason is invalidated, you don't pull out of the war. The rest of your list is still valid. -Raystonn

Please elaborate on why my opinion worries you. No, I disagree with that proposition. American television programs and movies have reached the Islamic countries of the middle east. Many of these programs and movies have been found to be highly offensive to those who devoutly practice Islam...

I'm (currently anyway) the only one to vote "I don't know". Seriously, anyone who has a crystal ball that works three months into the future should be filthy rich and incredibly famous by now. My crystal ball only works one day into the future, and it's only 80% accurate. (Though the...

You weren't listening. What the people think isn't relevant when determining the right thing to do, unless your only concern is getting (your party) reelected. I actually respect a President who places moral obligations above politics. -Raystonn

It also just occurred to me that these Iraq death numbers are meaningless without knowing the numbers of enemies killed. You wouldn't look at your Gross Loss column and complain when it was greater than zero. You should also look at your Gross Profit column. How many enemies perished during...

These are not facts that show a real problem in Iraq or with the war on terror. You gave opinions derived from polls. Opinion polls are not indicators of what is the right thing to do, they are only indicators of what to do to ensure the best probability of releection. People die in wars...

Tell me, what is wrong with a stalemate? The whole point is to keep the fighting away from the United States. You will never, ever, eliminate all threats to the United States. You will never, ever, kill every enemy soldier. But if you can distract them with fighting in another country, you...

I'm waiting for someone to create an indicator based on quantum entanglement with the market. -Raystonn

By what measure is the "CEO" (a veiled reference to President Bush) a failure? If you are going to make any reference to the economy, please provide hard facts. The economy seems strong to me. If you are going to make any reference to Iraq or the war on terror, please provide facts. They...

If this site was put together by the Democratic Party for the sole purpose of outing Foley close to election time, then they are guilty of sitting on the news since at least July 28th, when the site went live. If this is the case, then they are obviously more interested in the election than in...

Sorry Pabst. Your call was wrong. However, I don't have anything to gain from you leaving this forum. Perhaps you can instead use this as a good example of why money management is so important. The equivalent trade to making this kind of call on the SPX and laying your fate on it would be...

With such a random system, discretion kills anyone. Imagine an equity curve that looked like a sine wave. Due to fear a novice may get out at an equity low, or at least underwater. Now imagine you wanted to fade him. You could wait until his equity is positive and then reverse his trades...

You are missing the exit signal in such a system. That's part of the problem. Novices don't plan an exit except when their account is hugely down and they are afraid. -Raystonn

Assuming he bet on heads each time, he will be quite happy. And then, like most gamblers in Vegas, he will keep trading. When the losses come in, the account will be lost. -Raystonn

Most novices lose money due to commissions and other fees. If you had zero commissions and fees, it would be just as difficult to lose money as it would be to make it. Most "systems" created by novices are nothing more than random coin flips. Eventually you will tend to come out even, but...

I would say the probability of your top holding has decreased dramatically. Let's see where we end today. I will have an opinion tonight. -Raystonn