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so Themis Trading doesn't want a transparent market, they don't want other market participants to have a picture of the true supply and demand for stock because it takes away from their business of charging customers 10-20 x's more in commissions for block transactions combined with heavily...

Hoping a few experts can offer an opinion on how to construct a trade, people can refer to some tools, or perhaps a livevol rep can say how one can use their tools. have started to research a concern and a way to take out nsurance against a possible war, perhaps involving iran and how to...

There is a lot of money in technically oriented trend following funds, so that's a contributing factor to the high volume breakout. Fundamentally, there's been an increase in the supply of fiat currency relative to commodities - an increase in paper chasing the same amount quantity of goods...

reduce mandates, allow a high deductible policy, let wal mart and clinics handle the low end walk ins rather than ERS, tort reforv, and let people be held accountable for their healthy, or unhealthy choices. government mandates requiring insurance to cover everything under the sun, including...

small range days large gaps overnight movement abnormally large opening ranges ( first 15, 30, 60 mins, etc) abnormally large volume ( first 15, 30, 60 mins, etc) larger transaction sizes than normal

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Hardcover) http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Policies/dp/0691129428

camtasia costs $, camstudio didn't seem to be able to handle lengthy videos. a happy medium is the free Microsoft Encoder, which can go for hours and hours. Quality is just ok. Camtasia is probably the best if you're willing to spend some money. Microsoft Encoder has some other features...

weak dollar is a big reason behind surge. bloomberg just said that there is a 2 month waiting list for cars in china. 2k cars, the chinese splitting cars 4 ways, subsidized gas, and an absurdly low car to people ratio. india is in a similar situation "there is only one car for...

concern over the deficits is just language they are beginning to use to set us up for a massive increase in taxes, given it's the "patriotic" thing to do and the wealthy became that way at the expense of the poor. it's simply their belief that you can have high government spending, high...

speaking long term... the Roman Empire and British Empires eventually collapsed because it was simply too expensive, and the supply lines too long to support a vast empire, and the world would no longer continue to allow them to print. We operate 180+ military bases all over the world...

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class...

this is more a symptom of the waste in the rest of the budget than the cause. waste and fraud is everywhere in the government, particularly in the areas you mentioned of medicare, medicaid, and defense spending. for example, the government overpays medicare bills to insurance companies by...

inflation hasn't even remotely begun yet, and we're already blaming everyone but the people responsible. we'll be tar and fethering evil speculators and barring the holding of anything but paper before this is all over (aka, people who recognize that there is a huge amount of paper chasing...

the irony is that social mobility, or the ability to move up classes from your parents becomes harder and harder the more you move away from capitalism to socialism then communism. just look at all the new wealthy minority millionaires we have in this country. in more quasi...

Windows Media has a plug in, called Windows Media Encoder. Have used it to record screens, but you can broadcast as well. it's free. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

are far out of the money, long term, 3 years, puts that are available to purchase?

have been thinking where the the next bubble is being created with all of this money being printed and given to the banks will be. hard assets, of course. but we may see a merger and buyout boom like never before. being big is being rewarded. smaller companies won't be able to afford the...

At the end of 1931, President Herbert Hoover asked for a temporary tax increase, saying it was "indispensable to the restoration of confidence." Congress went along in June 1932, raising the top income tax rate from 25% to 63% and quadrupling the lowest tax rate from 1.1% to 4%. That didn't...

"China has a reputation for having zero intellectual property respect, counterfeiting, abuse of human rights and bad worker conditions." All good points. You still have to account for the direction each of our countries are going, and the fiscal position of the governments and people.

China is investing in commodities and needed infrastructure, roads to rural china, water treatment, energy, resources, much like the US did in the beginning of the 19th century. In contrast, we are propping up failed businesses, diverting resources away from the competent to the incompetent...