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    ... on winning the Lottery / PowerBall

    musings on winning the Lottery.... ...) have you ever noticed they always pick some hick, way off in west-end no-where? ....) have you ever noticed they soak all the suckers in all the major cities, who play the Lottery with their bottom dollars, even, their kid's milk money? ...) a...
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    Data mining challenge

    my response was directed at the starter of this thread, and especially in calling such a jerk, I have seen countless idiots, whom thought they were privilidged, especially bright or connected in these positions at these Wall Street firms, and stacked up to some pretty bright New Yorkers...
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    WallStreet - Money Never Sleeps - comments

    very well said, one could not associate the linkage or the "mentor" references without having seen the original, from some 25 years before in 1987. they rushed this film, but ohh what a rush it was, it was even better than the original, and come backs, talk about redeeming one's...
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    Data mining challenge

    after saying all that, do you suppose you can really trade a simple buy / sell pattern? really, because my experience on the Equity trading desks of a few firms has been, those who took their MBA's in Financial Engineering couldn't read a simple Equity chart, nor hold their water long...
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    Data mining challenge

    the problem with these corporations today, is they hire based on race, religion, looks and an expectation that using those qualifiers will produce a better employee that can actually meet the job description as well as live up to their proclaimed resume. another problem with these...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    very nice! clean well organized room, nice desk, strong enough to support the 3x monitor rig. do you drive those 3 monitors off your laptop?, does your trading rig require use of the laptop, or was that a desktop hidden underneath, where the chair is blocking it? very nice! (PM me...
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    100 US cities threatened by $2 Trillion debt crisis

    we are set to explode out of the ashes, what with all that gasoline (stmulus funding), and all these smokers in the room look for a strong US Dollar and $40 oil also
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    Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 Trillion

    that is so funny, you realize that for someone of his stature and prestige, remember, it is the office, not just the person, 1) doors are opened for them 2) security issues address, look for and prevent bottlenecks where egress doesn't flow smoothly 3) humor is also part of the job, but...
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    Porter Stansberry Research - The End of America

    with such a dynamic economy, with such a "throw it all against the wall and see what sticks" approach with so much thrown at stimulus packages with so many Billions and Trilions (in total) thrown at bailouts with so much discussion about recovery, its hard to see how such a...
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    -vacant-properties-in-china

    perhaps that notion belongs in a Capitalist, or Socialist, or Liberal economy, China, still being Communist, although adopting significant capitalist tendencies, is and remans a Second World country..... in Economics, the formal term is they are a Demand Economy, simply put, those in...
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    Will Robert Prechter be proved Right ?

    watch these two developments: 1) the attempt to unwind the US Federal support for the mortgage marketplace by severely altering FNMA and FRE (or more popularly known as Fannie and Freddie) 2) the explosive effect of having stimulated and supported so much of the economy through these prior...
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    Is trading Gambling or not .."What say You" Vote here.

    its interesting that in 2005, when you started this thread you were at, or perhaps are at, now, 13111 posts to these threads perhaps your answer, based on being one of the highest and most frequent commentators on these threads would answer this question one thing is certain, I would like...
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    Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 Trillion

    thank you George Bush II for all your hard work, and your brilliant economic policies that made all these: bailouts and TARP's, and Madoff's, and mortgage crisis(es) and foreclosures, and record individual bankruptcies, and record Statewide and Municipality wide insolvancies, and...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    as soon as the check clears, and the black friday specials arrive, next day air, and the creek don't rise, then, we can get some new 480p monitors with 768x512 monitors and get an upgrade to our Pentium II (happy holidays....)
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    A trading group

    how do you get a group together? attend one of the trading expo conferences see whom you're personality fits in with, at one of the presentations, or discussions that happen see if there is a like need or desire to network or form a group observe the collective intelligence or...
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    Type B personalities

    do they even make those type B's anymore? what's a B anyways?
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    i7-900s vs Xeon processors - identical?

    Newegg has a core i7 laptop for $899 with a $100 rebate, bringing the price down to $799. has anyone had success with the core i5? regarding using it for trading applications and such?
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