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updates suck, turn them off and do them manually on the weekends.... :D TNG

Righty-o, I got that. The part I was missing (in my late-night muddled thinking) was the fact that they produce the number every month, therefore you can tell where the changes come from (at least by month). It seems like it's not really an index meant to determine the value of the asset...

They also don't include houses that had two transactions in the last 6 months. I guess I'm looking at this the wrong way. It's not supposed to be like an equity index, it's supposed to be a long term hedging vehicle? I still don't see how that's useful to institutions. I guess we'll have...

I still don't get it. When were the previous sales? If the previous sale was thirty years ago and the difference is %10, how do you know if the %10 was a steady incline over the thirty years, or the house lost value for 29 years and had a phenomenal year that year? Essentially what you...

Cuz they can sell it to lame customers? :eek: :p How often is a house sold twice in the same month, year or even decade? (well, maybe twice a decade, I really don't know). So they are taking the first price sale - the second sale to determine the appreciation of the time difference between...

Wow, I went to the CME site to look at the index methodology of the housing futures and here is what I found: ... and... Now, I'm not too bright, but excluding new construction (current developers) and excluding condo's and co-ops (mostly retail speculators) combined with a very serious...

What great traders think that the market is truly random? TNG

Before each trade define a price that would "prove" to yourself you are wrong, and decide what $ amount you want to risk on that bet. For me, that's what dictates my share size, and nothing else. I have general rules about what % of my account I want to risk on each bet, given the strength of...

Why don't you read the 932 pages posted already on this topic? It won't take you long to determine whether or not it's worth following. Will it really help you if someone tells you they are making x amount of dollars from it? TNG

Bobcows, I hope I'm not overstepping my boundry here, but did you mean www.wealth-lab.com? (not wealthlab.com) TNG

I understand the motives (or at least, I believe I do). The US foriegn policy in the middle east, the replacement of governements in Iran, the attempted coupe's in Iraq, the money laundering scheme in Saudi Arabia... etc. To me it's always been obvious. Go around and talk to Americans, even...

The first three paragraphs have nothing to do with motive, the last is very explanitory, but how many Americans know or understand this? TNG

Given your ET name I could have guessed you take this stance! ;). I agree with you however, I think it's ridiculous to think that they orchastrated something like that. However, I have never heard anyone asking, nor the government offering, a motive behind the attacks that was plausible. TNG

Why do people write articles about the easy-to-pick-on maniacal theories instead of the hard to answer, pluzzling, good questions? TNG PS: This was my favorite part: "even as the enemy’s name changes almost daily: Big Oil, capitalists, Republicans," Because, as we know...

That's a bit out there, no? Who is being "picked off"? TNG

Right wingers was the wrong term, I suppose. Your definition is what I meant. TNG

There's a big difference with saying that Bush is responsible for 9/11 and saying he orchestrated the whole thing. TNG

Question to you right-wingers. Do you see anything suspicious at all about 9/11? I don't mean do you think Bush hired someone to fly the plane himself, but is there anything about that event that raises a red flag in your mind? TNG

Who needs a car in the Bahamas?? :p :p :p TNG

We run our own 20 MB lines to the CME here. It's also a bit misleading for me to say that the CME hasn't had any slowness recently, because we haven't experienced any on our lines. It's entirely possible that the CME lines to your FCM/IB are either saturated or there are errors/latencies in...