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Funny, if everything had went according to plan it would have been 'a great victory for the people of the United States of America". Now that things are going awry it suddenly is "Bush fucked up big time"? The people to blame are those stupid enough to give him the power, twice!! Many ppl...

Interesting tip, thank you, Ursa..

Monitors have their own powersupplies, don't they. Me thinks their number is irrelevant here. Ursa..

If you have so much confidence in your system then why not 10-fold or 100-fold your stakes. Increase the stakes until it is not boring anymore :) Ursa..

Yes, there'll always be some risk, but even only the act of installing another browser or mailclient helps most ppl become aware of what they're doing and become more carefull. The pre-installed stuff has some incredibly stupid defaults on. I'm not a sysop but I maintain a few XP boxes for...

To lessen the risk of outsiders injecting software in your laptop start using non-Microsoft product whenever possible, so not IE but Firefox or Opera, not Outlook but Thunderbird etc etc.. There are a lot of alternatives that not only are better built but also more stable and pleasnt in daily...

You can trade eg. Euronext options, one of the largest, with IB. You have to pay for the data Euronext Data Bundle- Level I a mere $5 a month I think, for that you get all stocks and indexes and related options in realtime! I think you cant get it any cheaper anywhere. Ursa..

...Which kind of proofs what Kerry allegedly said, of course. Anyway, I only read his statement, not heard it, and I was thinking he took a shot at Bush. Now, in hindsight, I see how it could also be seen as an insult to the troops, but the ones interpretating it as such are the true...

Good example. we would never hear of him again either. Nor his family if they were foolish enough to report this issue to the public media (1st amendment is next?). Ursa..

I agree with you. In a sense a dictatorship is a very stable and possibly prosperous form of government. Also I think human nature has a tendency to end up with a hierarchical top-down system. Democracy is an artificial blockade to prevent sliding back into this 'natural' form. The bad thing...

Yep, agree competely. Rolling your own, using modules from Hoadley is the best way to go, certainly for a newb to options. Using instant software like OptionVue doesn't teach you anything; it actually obscures some of the important details. Ursa..

This is a familiar argument, about the short put having limited risk versus the short call being unlimited. In theory it is true but I'd rather be short calls than short puts, if I had too choose. Let's get into this another time :) The margin question is best put as how much of my capital is...

Thanks for enlightening me RM, I had only vaguely heard about those camps. Shows how incomplete our collective recollection is. This part is interesting: Some compensation for property losses was paid in 1948, but most internees were unable to fully recover their losses.[3] In 1988...

To my knowledge the allies did nothing of the sort before the actual war started. After it started inhabitants of the UK and the USA of German and Japanese nationality had some hard time, but nothing very extreme. They kept their 'human rights', that's for sure. I don't think any of the allies...

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Good summary MoMoney, regards, Ursa..

Yes, I'm aware of that. Wouldn't mind if I was, and the disturbing thing about it is: I'm not an enemy of the US, I'm just very concerned about these heavy-handed steps taken in a short timespan: - disable habeus corpus ground-right - enable martial law - build detention camps What more...

The numbers you cite are for a simple option position that is far ITM. When options have a delta near 0 or near 1 they always have a gamma near 0. However, these are also the least important options and are hardly traded and difficult to trade for good prices. The more important options are...

Sorry my US friends, but it seems your president just pulled the final trick. Read http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203272&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=16625110 for a better account than I could write. ".......In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law...

For international/US brokers I know only IB. I would be very surprised if you'd be able to find a better one. Ursa..