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I diidn't mean to choke off discussion with platitudes While this is an investing site, <b>this</b> <b><i> is</i></b> an economics forum. There is nothing more important to economics than understanding motivations. Remember Thomas Jefferson's concerns about banks and their ability to...

In almost all cases you mention, the collapse of the influence of the state was because it moved from a stable governing system to a (corupt) kleptocracy. When the heart was taken out of the common man and he/she realized that no matter how hard they worked, their overloads were going to...

Note that the IRS has plenty of special forms to allow barter. I'm with the Founding Fathers. The best basis of Barter is silver and gold.

The capital markets must reward for success and punish for failure. When the risk is taken away or even failure rewarded, then the markets are so distorted that there can be no efficient application of capital. Our system was (is) so distorted that fools are saying the solution is spend...

The Founding fathers warned us against democracy, and that is why they formed a republic instead. But when the system became a kleptocracy with special interests buying Congressmen and Senators the law- making process became slave to special interests. Thomas Jefferson said : "I believe...

Tucker goes on to suggest an adaptive CCI, which, if I understand him, is an attempt to vary the length of the sample period to match variations in the fundamental cycle length. He noted that Lambert, the developer of CCI, suggested a sample period equal to 1/3 of a cycle. Even without FFT...

After I learned to use MACD in different time spans to confirm direction, I noticed stochastics seemed faster and more leading. Then I started studying CCI theory. The follow up of the article I noted above is http://tuckerreport.com/indicators/cci-improvement/ My trading improved with...

While browsing around, studying CCI, I ran across this statement "A close approximation of the CCI can be replicated easily by the use of Bollinger Bands, which will eliminate the need for any programming as these bands are included with most software packages and can be plotted right over...

If I had to chose between racism ("we are the best") or Political Correctness, I would be in a quandary. I rather think the gems of the New Testament should be applied to inter-personal relationships. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you may have a basis in tribalism, but...

I have the Green book and have found it very common-sense, very helpful. I transfer every trade either from monthly reports or daily logs to a spreadsheet, and send copies in with my return. Unless you are using Mark to Market and declaring a huge loss, I think the IRS would rather not open...

IB is the best I've come up with in 10 years. My dissatisfactions hinge around issues that would arguably add expense: Brit attitude somewhat arrogant; much handholding data on site, extremely poor search engine -they should learn from Google. And rediculous time delay between check...

The scuttlebutt is that many people have run up their CC debt as a last resort to avoid foreclosure. Obviously the piper must be paid eventually.

I re-read my original post, and thought I had better clarify my statement "45 second round trip cycle time". What I meant by that was, if Globex:ER2U7 was 792.3 (last) with a bid population at 789.7 and up and asks at 792.5, that the "last" would take out all the bids (or asks), move...

Sounds like good Java hints. But, I use Quotetracker with about 10 charts up, Propht.net for stocks (which I'm not trading just now) and IB for futures data feed. In Booktrader, if I pick a reasonable price point with a reasonable population of bids/asks, I get a "fill" (blacked quantity)...

Youse guys are 'way over my head, but perhaps this is the place (time) to post a question about TWS and time lag. First of all, I use TWS with Booktrader. (I expect to go to NinjaTrader before Christmas). Trader work station has a time indicator at the lower right of the trading screen...

John Merchant at his best! You guys crack me up.

I realize this might be a little late for your decision, but perhaps interesting to some others... I have found Dell to be a good choice when bought through an account rep for a major Dell commericail account (say at an engineering office or medical center) because such reps have an...

We all know it depends on supply and demand. And that depends on jobs and availability of credit. I was simply commenting on the incredible availability of credit in a deficit-ridden debtor country. There is only a tentative relationship between the indomitable American spirit and the...

All these discussions ignore two of the major sources of the current liquidity bubble. 1) The American economy is somewhat immune to withdrawal of credit because even a foreclosed US house is a more secure asset than many businesses and factories in Arab or many Asian nations. 2) About a...

I just returned from two months in China. A few observations: The Chinese are not much different than us (Westerners in general) They may be harder-working.. They may be just as (or more moral) than us "Christians" They are certainly smart They are developing a prosperous...