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    Calendar of "irregular" political and economic news

    There are a number of Web-sites around that keep a list of upcoming releases of economic data as well as regular events with potential impact on the markets such as Fed meetings. Can anyone recommend a resource that keeps track of forthcoming one-off events with potential of high impact on...
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    Jim Rogers: Another Recession Due Circa 2012

    The timing of him buying Euro some weeks ago was exceptionally good.
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    ES Journal Archive (2009 - 2010)

    What does the mystical acronym "DEMTDAYBOYZ" mean?
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    Flying first class and not coach, why?

    In fact, Brazilian airlines charge heavy passangers extra. Supposedly, it takes more fuel to carry a heavy passenger.
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    suggestion on new pc

    Large PC manufacturers tend to put their own brand on important components like motherboards and even RAM modules. So, you won't see "ASUS" or "Gigabyte" motherboard in the PC description.
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    hey HFT scum, yeah, you. Watch this

    http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Internalization (first page of search results for "internalization" on google)
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    Buying a new Trading PC.... this is whats in my shopping cart and cyberpowerpc

    Excellent advice. Even brand new ones aren't trerribly overpriced. The downside is 3d performance is good to run "aero" in vista or windows 7 but is totally subpar for anything else. 2d performance, which is what you want for charts and trading applications, is great. Another thing is... If...
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    Will a prop firm steal my strategies? Recommendations for low cost brokers?

    If you are seriously worried but execution speed is not an issue, see if you can sign up with 2 different prop firms that let you trade from your home or your own office. Then you can randomly send order to one account or the other... p[erhaps with some balancing to avoid accumulating large...
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    suggestion on new pc

    The easy way is to see which motherboards a large manufacturer of custom-built PCs like scan is using. Then read some reviews on the boards they put in. There is no easy way as you are the only one who knows what excatly you need: how many PCI-E slots, what maximum RAM etc.
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    why pork belly future's open interest so low ?

    Perhaps, old-fashioned way... a long-term contract fopr regular meat with farmers. Also live hog futures are a decenty hedge too.
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    Final Round Hedge Fund Interview Question

    The book has exceptionally high rating among amazon customers...
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    does IB provide a charting program?

    IB platform has decent charts itself. The platform has a demo startable from Web-browser. Just got to IB Web-site and navigate from the menu to Trading->Trading Platforms. Then ckick Trader Workstation (TWS) and then Browser Based TWS... or simply follow this link. If you don't like TWS...
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    Options Traders' Ranks Swell as Amateur Investors Embrace `Iron Condors'

    Very few people of those who are actualy trading write articles or give television interviews. Even those who do, usually produce these articles or interviews only after they have already taken the view they are promoting trading-wise at a better level.
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    The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out:The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out

    Perhaps, the keyword is "properly". Anyone who contributes $10 per year to an employer-sponsored pension fund is technically contributing to his or her retirement. Recent figures suggest that given potential inflation and increased life length, $1 mln in after-tax savings is no longer...
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    The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out:The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out

    I just listed all the statistics from the article linked in the opening post. I haven't checked the figures independently, and the figure in 1) may be as old as 2001.
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    suggestion on new pc

    This particular issue must be gone as the motherboard in question is no longer produced. However, the attitude that puts low cost above sufficient quality must be tougher to change than discontinue one product. Especially, after margins in computer manufacturing further declined in recent years...
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    The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out:The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out

    "Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." --- Kin Hubbard
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    suggestion on new pc

    Let's say They are still cleaning up the mess....
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    The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out:The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out

    In case you are too busy to scroll through all the pages of the article: 1) 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people. 2) 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007. 3) 66%...
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    Price Action Traders

    Mark, do you use time-and-sales or market depth? Maybe you are a time-and-sales trader :)
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