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the message I got yesterday when shutting down was "awtoolkitwindow" cancel or end program. This program was not in task manager. I searched Google and all i got were references to Java . The Acer rep gave a RMA # , he didn't know much, said it could be the hard drive that failed. I am...

It's a nightmare, just yesterday I was posting about some slowness problems I was experiencing and confessed I never updated anything. This is a very strange coincidence. When I turned off my laptop I got an error message awtoolikit something, I did google that and it said it was related to...

I just listened to this guy a few times and I couldn't and still can't agree with many of his one sided , doom and gloom views , although I wasn't bullish. That said these videos make the people laughing at him look like complete idiots. Thanks for exposing that ! I had no idea some...

Thanks for your help. I am really allergic to new softwares so I don't use anything to "clean" the machine, beside running Spybot once in a while. I don't update stuff, not even antivirus programs. Too afraid of problems and newer versions that will run slower . My new laptop I only go to...

This is insane, 3 months ago I got an Acer laptop , XP Pro, Core2Duo,1.8GHZ, 2gb RAM . I have been happy with it so far but it feels already slower ! I haven't removed the Acer junk apps that run on it because at the beginning it was running pretty fast. It's still plenty fast but it slows...

If you had a bad execution during the move last week, you should just talk to Oanda and they will give you a refund. After all not so bad, OANDA.

There used to be a big S&P contract (bigger than today's big contract), and if I am not mistaken I believe the term handle applied to fractions of a point. Does everyone use handle for full points or some old school traders use it talking about ticks?

Do you remember when the oil peakers and their following said last summer we would never see $50 oil again ? Oil would always be above $100 or $80 .... Of course they were all loaded up on oil stocks or were selling oil themselves bwahaha what a bunch of buffoons... and crooks

This is not the PPT stupid, this is institutional buying. They are buying weakness everytime

This is completely OT but I don't see how americans would be stupid for apologizing for the atomic bombs. This was most probably unnecessary but some scientists without conscience had built a bomb and then some politicians and the military wanted to try it on live humans. So that's what happened...

I invested a small portion of my funds in a Eastern European fund heavily weighted in Russian stocks. It's been decimated. I had great hopes for the future of the former eastern block countries and the relative strength up until summer was a good sign . I didn't have a clue. Lesson: don't...

You sound rather normal. Lucky actually for not caring about anything. If you never felt like putting a gun to your head then you are probably not depressed. And probably shouldn't take drugs including herbal remedies which can be harmful.

These talks of PPT are a bit ridiculous as CNBC 's Liesman put it . If there really is a PPT why then has the market totally collapsed in this fashion ? What is the daily notional value of all the S& P traded ? I don't know but I am sure they have the money to put a floor under the...

No way it was slippage. It was a failure of their systems. Quotes stopped updating , stop orders did not trigger . I placed a small mkt order on stale quotes to see what would happen and received an execution at mkt price more than 100 pips higher.

Geez thanks for bringing this up . I had big problems as well yesterday, the platform stopped updating and an order didn' t get executed when the dollar sold off at 9 am . I posted about it here. Eventually the order showed as executed but I guess I was too busy with some other things, this...

YOU FOOLS

I think it's good news. She makes a good point about oversold conditions being dangerous in a bear market, a lesson I learned at my expense having literally averaged down in the crash. However at this juncture I believe it's wrong to think you must wait for the oversold condition to be relieved...

I wouldn't be surprised if they go down some day. Hubris. But maybe we will find out that they aren't smarter than the rest and their edge was mostly the type of activity some are complaining about.

good post. I have found that for me, making many small uncorrelated bets without having too strong an opinion works best. Leverage kills in this market.

The politicians don't understand a thing for the majority. I say true specs (Floor, CTA's, hedge funds) do their job, there are some bad apples for sure. I totally agree with the politicians when by speculators they mean "long only funds". That should not have been allowed.