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i live in europe and worked in us for a couple of years and my impression is that the us is clearly falling apart in many aspects of its social environment. the media, the opinion making, the law system, the democracy itself, are increasingly disrupting us cohesion. at least thats i what i have...

It is a way of assuring an added stream of revenue or iow increase the overall profitability of any system. Say, if I sell my system to 100 people and collect $5000 per head and continue to trade the system I am, in fact, much better off than just exploring it because any system is prone to...

just pump it. the show must go on. and please shorten the product life cycle a bit more so we can concentrate on bringing all sorts worthless goods home every week. by the way, my new SUV is totally outdated now, i bot it last summer. lol.

that's wild speculation. i dont want to add to my risk, in fact, i am willing to reduce it instead.

i just dont get why these so called wizards try to predict the bear or bull markets. dont they get that is a worthless effort to forecast a complex system that constantly adapts to new circumstances and has millions of variables that affect its behavior? Honestly, I dont know when the next bear...

Cathy is betting Emerging, Europe and Japan will continue to grow by then which gives the necessary boost to US exports and ultimately assure the US can keep the economic engine rolling. It is very easy to turn around your economy around when everybody out there is buying your stuff like crazy...

actually is both even though personal residence only accounts for 20% of the overall real estate investment. I invest mainly in land and hi potential residential and commercial properties in booming areas. I have been extremly lucky, I would say. Historically I have been achieving 20% or so...

active trading include forex and interest trading bots and discretionary trading using US options on highly liquid assets such as GOOG, CME or SPY. I average 20% per month in all this but obviously have drawdowns. Often, by the end of the year, active trading accounts for at least half of the...

heres my allocation: 30% real estate, land 40% government bonds, CD, etc. 10% stock indexes 20% active trading in futures, forex and interest. my yearly avg return in the last 10 years has been 52% and with a standard deviation of around 20%.

Actually I heard they will name it iFad to avoid further lawsuits on intellectual property allegations by reckless competitors.

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at the expense of the next generations of americans, those would be the ones that have to pay the costs of the actual imbalances. but the dow couldnt care less as well. in economy as in life, most of crowd is left behind. this is one of the laws of the nature as we know it.

I mentioned in my post that my assertions didn't apply to hi prob trading such as in options (ie buying ITM synthetic covered calls). You future example falls in the same category. If you have a 99% winners and the 1% loser outweigh the win amount. the point here is whether the poster should...

stop spending and increase your saving rate. This is how the giant will tumble. there is too much external interests polluting the political agenda in the US. just imagine, china is powering their economy, they have almost limited man power, they're attracting all sorts of international...

80% is impossible to keep in the long run (say 10,000 trade history), it is agains all odds. Any system based on futures (in options it is different as you may that the path of hi prob setups), but in futures, a very good edge is something around 60%. Most professional traders I know have W%...

The US main indexes are not some sort of economy tracker in which one sees how the local economy if faring. In today's economy, the main stock indexes will go up or down in tandem. technically the world's index correlation has increased from around 50% in the 80's to around 95 nowadays. That's...

we have here a non believer here. :D

Tigo It can be done. First of all you have to know how to trade and manage the bankroll. This is extremely complex matter, so take your time to master it. I'd suggest you consider any of globex futures for your trading, since you get very good liquidity and the necessary leverage. I...

It all depends on whether Steve has an iPhone prototype to show off or not. An iPhone product announcement would make everybody very jumpy about AAPL stock. :D

just take a look at parallels.com. they have an excellent virtual machine app that alows to run any WIN32 software in your mac wo hassle. you'd get the best of both worlds.