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  1. J

    Pros and Cons: LLC vs S-Corp

    Your reasoning might be slightly inductive as opposed to deductive. I know tons of people with good credit and decent paying jobs who also can't get credit right now -- and that's sort of the definition of a credit crunch. Its quite possible it has nothing to do with your income or lack of...
  2. J

    Still Can't get it Right. I think its completely Subconciously

    Maybe your problem is smaller than you think. Traders take lots of losses all the time. The trick to trading isn't to always take winners and never take losers, but rather, to cut the losers while they're insignificant and to press your winners. If you have unrealistic expectations that being...
  3. J

    If you Trade, you need to do this asap.

    Without a UPS you might be able to keep your laptop running... but how are you going to keep your broadband modem and router going? Unless you've got a wireless aircard to use with one of the cellular providers you're sorta dead in the water.
  4. J

    If you Trade, you need to do this asap.

    As someone who traded through rolling blackouts in California +1... but don't forget that (1) UPS units and their batteries also fail, quite often at the worse possible time, so its a good idea to have a 2nd UPS unit for the backup computer and to test them regularly by pulling the plugs out...
  5. J

    Pros and Cons: LLC vs S-Corp

    If you go see a reputable tax attorney or a reputable accountant, who knows what they're talking about and isn't trying to sell you anything, they will almost always tell you that the use of legal structures like corporations and LLC's are all about asset protection and NOT about reducing your...
  6. J

    Why is the market so stupid and wrong most of the time?

    The market is never wrong... it always shows the exact price at any given point in time where at least 1 buyer and at least 1 seller agree to transact business. The idea that the market "should" be trading at any given price is a misguided notion and is tantamount to complaining that your...
  7. J

    Norton could be datamining your computer

    You really shouldn't be running Antivirus and Firewall programs on your trading computer anyways, as it slows things down and many trading applications quite often choke on these types of programs. A hardware firewall (usually included in most routers these days) is always superior in terms of...
  8. J

    best distributed file system for homebrew hedge funds

    I've been a fan of Gluster for a while http://www.gluster.org/
  9. J

    Scalpers, does your frontend software have "headcount"

    Seems like a good feature but I've never seen it offered anywhwere.... I don't even know how you'd derive that kind of information from a programming perspective.
  10. J

    IB T1 dedicated connection?

    T-1's are great for reliability and latency, but keep in mind that they offer a fraction of the bandwidth as cable and dsl. Where I live, I could have a T1 for $350/mo., which would give me 1.5Mb (megabits -- not bytes), or I could pay $40 per month for a 7Mb DSL line. Thats almost 5 times...
  11. J

    Graphics Card

    I don't know what type of motherboard you have, but most likely you've either got a few PCI or PCIe slots available. The cheapest thing to do is just go pick up 2 identical video cards and pop them in. If you think you might ever want to attach more monitors than what you have available slots...
  12. J

    Lease or Buy?

    I never said don't buy a computer... I said don't pay a lot of money for a computer and try to get good value because it will probably not be worth too much in a few years. I just put together a 64-bit 2.8ghz machine with 4gb of ram and a 1tb hard drive for less than $400. All I suggested...
  13. J

    Calling all Echo and Bright traders

    You can never go wrong going with Bright... Echo on the other hand has been getting some reviews you might want to take a peek at.
  14. J

    If Economics is an "empirical science".....Why do we call Keynesians Economists????

    Wow what a great reference you got there... an article about economics written by a physicist. I know I'm convinced.
  15. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    And your point is???? Last I checked one guy here in the U.S. did that all by himself... and we have way more than just 1. But let me guess, you have some reason that makes sense to you why all americans or all american businessmen shouldn't be judged by the rotten few.
  16. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    I'm not outraged... I could personally care less whether or not you're prejudiced... I just think its interesting how you're uncomfortable admitting it and keep coming up with creative ways to rationalize stereotypes as fact. Of course my Russian girlfriend who has lived here in this country...
  17. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    I have no idea what your point is other than the fact that doing business in India and Asia is somewhat dicey. If I cared enough to think about it long enough, I would probably contribute that to lack of proper regulation and oversight, but if you want to chalk it up to Indian's being...
  18. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    The dude was asserting that the CEO of a major money center bank is a swindler just because he's Indian... if thats not racist I'm not sure what is. And I've been to India twice. Yes, many Indian businessmen like to pull fast ones... but guess what, many American businessmen also like to...
  19. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    Ahhh... I almost started to respond until I noticed that you have only just registered a brand new handle and only have 3 posts... my guess is this is your 30 or 40th handle on ET. Obviously your posts are just hoaxes designed to be inflamatory. One thing I know for certain.... you either...
  20. J

    How does Citibank have a 'profit' in a quarter it gets a welfare check?

    Wow... how incredibly.... oh what's the word I'm looking for? ummmm... RACIST! How incredibly racist of you! Do you have the same problem with Jewish people reminding you of Hitler or Bernie Madoff?
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