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So I walked past a McDonald's last week and saw that it was unmistakenly decorated like a Starbucks. If this type of copying continues Starbucks will probably go down due to brand devaluation. If a fast food brand with lower-middle class connotations such as McDonald's is able to succesfully...

What's your source for the claim that circuit city's website is the 5th most visited?

It's a sign that there's too much competition for entry level jobs in the industry. It's kinda like flight instructors offering to work for food in order to gain flight hours.

Chart for January 03 2008

Chart for January 02 2008... Happy New Year everybody!

Part of the reason why investors over the past few years were willing to buy risky bonds in such large quantities is because insurance was so damn cheap. The costs associated with risk in the current credit markets are going to be passed onto the insurers who were willing to take it in...

. I suggest you wait untill volume confirms a downtrend in Au and an uptrend in USD.

Those who read Reminiscences of a stock operator will remember Livermore's attempt to corner the coffee market near the end of World War I. He would have made millions if it wasn't for the government stepping in and fixing the price of coffee. It actually bankrupted him.

Okay, let's review the following question: "why would the stock market close?". The answer is: because government legislators have the power to set prices. Price legislation is infact very common in our society. Just look at the real estate market where rent control is the norm in alot of...

I have thought about this before and determined that if the stock market closed I would have to find another way to exponentially grow capital. I would probably venture into real estate.

Contrarian indicator?

What are your scanning criteria?

Merry Christmas!

I already had auto reboot switched off before the crashes occured. The blue screens were likely generated through a BIOS setting. There doesn't seem to be any problem with a legacy device or memory module so the crashes must have happend because of the overheated CPU. No damage has been done...

Thank you so much for your reply! I removed the fan and cleaned a layer of dust from between the heatsink and the CPU. I noticed that the termal paste was mostly gone so I bought a tube and applied it. Everything seems to be running smoothly now. I'm running monitoring logs using Speedfan and...

The past few days I've been through some computer crashes where the system shuts down completely. Usually this occurs suddenly but sometimes I receive an error message before it shuts down. I have received two so far: * A blue screen shows up that says an error has occured in NTFS.sys and...

I do SCT using NinjaTrader as a simulator and I'm consistently profitable. I'll post some trades and analysis later this month if I have the time to do so. I've decided that before I go live I will need to built some confidence to hold through the large moves and cut back on the amount of...

Chart for December 21 2007

Chart for December 20 2007

The market creates pathways as it travels from operating point to operating point. With time a number of possible avenues is denied and a volatile move occurs in the available direction. There is a clear direction and money is made quickly because price is traveling fast. The result is that risk...