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Go to Ikea in San Diego. Lots of White Mexicans there :) You make a good point though, I never really appreciated that Mexico is basically an Apartheid state, until I moved to San Diego. All of the Mexicans I'd seen for the most part were the poor brown ones picking berries and doing...

None, you can't short IPO's.

Bob111 knows what he's talking about, and his suggestion is a damn good idea. Obviously it isn't a 100% solution to the problem, but probably a pretty good solution for illiquid stocks.

Shows how much you actually know about farming. Wheat will not grow on any of that land that is used for coffee or tea production, and it's doubtful you could grow corn on much of it either.

Yahoo data is weird...it's like they have an army of people hand-entering the data each night and sometimes they get a little behind. That's the only explanation I can think of for why it isn't always updated at the exact same time each day...and they occasionally have these multi-day hiccups.

It's because cops themselves tend to be motorcycle enthusiasts who like loud bikes as well, so they give motorcycle riders a pass on noise ordinances.

What if you become incapacitated and can no longer work? What if in the future you stop loving what you do? It is one thing to continue to work because you enjoy it, but it's unsafe to count on needing to work until the day you die.

Yeah they work great. If I have a stuffy nose, it usually provides relief for several hours after using it. The saline is to make the solution isotonic with your own cells so it won't sting. If the water has aprox. the same osmotic pressure (salt concentration) and ph of your body, then it...

Are you sure that installing Sun Java via the packaga manager is the recommended way? I haven't run TWS on Ubuntu, but last year when I needed to install Sun Java On Ubuntu, everything I was reading recommended NOT installing it using the package manager....

Well, there you have it, the Russian Government says that there were no airstrikes on civilians....because you know if there is anyone we can always trust to tell the truth its the Russian Government!

That white smoke is steam...

The highest Tsunami in the west coast of the continental US is scheduled to hit Siletz Bay in Oregon in a few minutes. The wave is predicted to be 7 feet or so. They aren't even evacuating the houses and business on the bay.

If we are talking about kids as an investment, then I'd say having kids who love you is an essential part of your retirement strategy, and not having loving children is one of the most financially stupid mistakes you can make in the long run. If you live long enough, you'll eventually become...

One point that I've never seen addressed by those who say that insider trading should be legal is the bad incentives it would create for the management of public companies. In a world where insider trading is legal, the CEO has dual incentives. He can make money the hard/slow way by growing...

For one thing, your counter-party will probably have the trade busted if you ever were to get filled.

What markets do you trade? Just a few months ago, an IB rep talked about excessive messaging in this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202889&perpage=40&highlight=messages&pagenumber=2. He led us to believe that this was only going to be a problem for people...

Clearly things would be better if the government stepped in and made this illegal so that instead of hiring lazy bitches in Florida at 15$/hour, US companies will be forced to farm this work out to overseas call centers at a fraction of that rate....

I translated these C# function from some excel vba code someone posted on EliteTrade several years ago. You could probably find the original VBA functions for excel with a search: using System; namespace Trader.OptionPricing { /// <summary> /// m drift /// s standard deviation...

I'm probably wrong on this, but I think that I remember reading once that the US Treasury used to issue bearer bonds, and discontinued the practice in the 80's, so in theory there could be some US Treasury Bearer Bonds still floating out there with a year or 2 left on them at this point.

The primary motivation for the proposed "state bankruptcy" laws is to give the states a way to change the terms of the contracts with their existing and retired public employees. The laws would allow them to renegotiate their current union contracts, and come to a settlement with regard to the...