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If you believe that it's the government's job to squeeze every last penny out of every person in the country this might be important.

A decade ago there was a huge difference in costs between the US and China. The cost differencial is rapidly shrinking. A friend of mine is an engineering consultant to a large firm that moved much of their manufacturing from California to China and India in the 1990s. They're now considering...

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The cost of the financial bailout, originally projected to be in the hundreds of billions, is now expected to be less than $50 billion, the White House said Thursday. The lower estimate comes as the bailout plan, a $700 billion investment in the financial sector by...

Yes. Trade location (price relative to ordinal scale variance) is a prime determinant of probability of outcome.

I was using "risk/reward" as a general concept, not a specific trading definition. Over the past 18 years, I've built my trading strategies around a database of thousands of statistically documented trades that measure risk, reward, probability of outcome... and many other things. When my...

I agree with your example that trading is like blackjack. We sit, watch and wait for a statistically favorable situation. However, trading is no different than anything else we do in life. Everything is a gamble. When we cross the street, first we assess the odds of making it safely to the...

I paid a $600 premium for my last computer from Puget. Since I typically keep a computer for about three years, I'm paying about 55 cents a day extra to have super reliable trading machines backed up by great customer service. For me, it's worth it because computer problems mean time away from...

I bought a computer from CyberPowerPc several years ago. I had nothing but trouble from the start. They promised the computer in 7-10 days, but it wasn't delivered for over 3 weeks. When I had a problem with it, I was put on hold repeatedly and passed along from one person to another. It took...

I've bought computers from both companies. When I priced the "exact" same system from both, PugetSytems was about $600 higher. I found CyberpowerPC's customer service to be dismal, and PugetSytems' customer service to be excellent. I'm willing to pay the extra bucks for the service.

Who cares what she thinks about evolution? Will she control the wild spending in Washington? Will she keep taxes low? I'm not voting on evolution. I'm voting on fiscal responsibility.

Check out www.pugetsystems.com. I've been buying trading machines from them for almost ten years. They can build anything from a fast air-cooled trading desktop to a screaming liquid-cooled research computer. And their customer service is second to none. They build custom computers for traders...

I'm running 64-bit W7 with an i7-870 and by most measures it's a pretty fast machine. But the real question is: Fast compared to what? A three year old computer? A more recent computer with an i5 chip? An overclocked i7-950? Is there something specific that you're trying to compare this...

If you want a reliable computer, upgrade your heat sinks and fans. Besides using quality parts (motherboard, CPU, etc.), system cooling is the best investment you will ever make. I get my trading computers built by Puget Sytems with lots of cooling upgrades. I get a new one every three...

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I agree. A key concept here is "verified." For me, it took two years of testing and keeping meticulous statistics until I identified my first profitable setup. Just one. That setup gave me relatively few trades, but they were consistently profitable trades. Over a period of 18 years I've added 8...

Absolutely true. I've been using the same "setups" for 18 years.

Any discussion about taxing the rich has to begin with a definition of what "rich" means. Those who call for higher taxes on "the rich" often harken back to the "good old days" when tax rates were high in the 1950s. One thing they fail to mention is that high tax rates in the 1950s didn't kick...

Amen.

Sanitation is important for prevention, but it's not enough. My wife works as a volunteer at a local hospital in an upscale suburban area. Every year there are cases of whooping cough, measels, etc in kids that weren't vaccinated. The doctors believe that these diseases were brought in from...

My grandfather used to call the most exciting times the "epidemic season" (kinda like football season). In a good year, 10-20 million would die. Wow! That was real action. Sometimes, as many as 30% of all children in a region would die in a single year. Too bad my kids can't have that...