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MSCHEY, I wouldn't say that China is a good model for America to follow but I would like to point that they might have gotten some of their ideas from us. 'Rolling tanks into a square to kill college kids' isn't a whole lot different than Ohio state Guardsmen killing 8 students at Kent...

Duh.... It was early in the morning!!!

I always assumed that emini contracts were being offset by positions in the regular S&P. In other words, a 'big' trader would buy the S&P and offset it by sellng ES to smaller traders. Don't know why I thought this. Coincidental maybe: 32,000 S&P contracts is equal to 1.6 million ES contracts.

I use IB and find them very easy to trade the ES, stocks, stock options, and future options. When you say '50 ES contracts' do you mean at one time? If so, why would one trade 50 ES instead of 10 units of the regular S&P contracts? I'm not trading at that size yet but I have thought...

First of all: the correct word is 'then', not 'than'. If lower taxes and gov't spending are the keys to a 'better lifestyle' then the 3rd world would be living in luxury. The USA has the lowest tax rate of industrialized countries and we do NOT have the highest standard of living compared to...

Clacy, I don't know why you think it's 'obvious' who has money and who doesn't based on their position regarding taxes. I suspect that you are either a young person who thinks that everybody is ONLY looking out for thier own interest regardless of fairness or other morals. Or, you are an...

Hilliary, Obama, and the current bill proposed by Rangel will make capital gains subject to the same rates as ordinary income not 75%. There is nothing wrong with this. A special, low capital gains tax rate is one of the most absurd and unfair components of the Bush tax cuts (and the current...

Hip, hip to you Mvic. Praise Darwin on this celebration of spring planting.

I'm familiar with the concept of a 'fractal' per Bill Williams 'Profitunity' group: is your concept based on/similar to that? Can we track volume intraday on the ES? I thought we could only extrapolate 'Volume' based on tick changes. If this is true: do you find it useful?

What is that irratating noise!?!?!

Thanks AOK and Amish. I have a large loss-carry forward position that I get to use up before the issue becomes critical but it will be a 'crisis' that I welcome. When I asked my original question I had eSignal and was thinking of pro vs. non-pro in terms of data feeds. What differences does...

I'm thinking the LEH and Goldman Sacs review by S&P might be another shoe: at least on Sunday night/Monday morning.

Where would they go? If a man has a million to invest is he going to NOT invest because after-tax returns are 50K instead of 75K: I doubt it.

Where would they go? If a man has a million to invest is he going to NOT invest because after-tax returns are 50K instead of 75K: I doubt it.

Look out below. Damn, just when things were starting to look up.

I rent apartments and houses to poor people: trust me, they don't get much assistance. Reaver, your example is pure hogwash.

I don't know about the 40 million working poor not paying taxes: I paid taxes when I earned minimum wage. Maybe those with children get enough deductions to not pay any taxes. As far as FICA: for the vast majority of people in this country it is the single best 'investment' that they make...

What is 'fair' about the Fairtax? My wife and I make approx. 200K per year: we spend less than 50K. We have no house payment, no auto loans, all credit cards are paid in full every month. We have no children to educate, feed or clothe. That's 100-150K put into savings and investments...

Families making 40K or less shouldn't pay federal income taxes. If the wealthly were taxed their fair share people making 60-80K could pay a lot less also. If 5% of the population control 85% of the wealth then they should pay 85% of the nations bills. Unfortunately, many families earning...

You are so correc t, ammo. I went into Weds. with a bullish opinion and lost my ass. Ironically, early in the loss I considered buying some Put options and getting out with a small loss: I ended up doing neither. This affected me the next day also as I exited a profitable trade at a...