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    david blaine---magic ??

    Let's apply that reasoning to another field: Movie making. They use fake sets, computer manipulation, matte paintings, stunt and body doubles, and editing, et al, and with these creating "events" that are impossible to have the actors perform legitmately. Yet no one would agree that they haven't...
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    dollars or cents

    Stop looking at your p/l. That was easy. Then, if the stock's down 10 cents and causes you to bail, but then whipsaws back up, that means you've got the wrong stop strategy. Actually, it sounds like your stop strategy is that exits are when you get scared of the loss. A better exit is...
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    Best way to save IB info for tax man

    I think you would like tradepair, for use with excel. http://www.ingenit.com./tradepair/
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    New Portable Toilet?

    The world's first portable lavatory with internet access is due to be unveiled in Britain this summer. I don't think I can hold it in until this summer.
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    Are trader's skills really important?

    There really is no such thing as "luck'. "Luck" is a concept that came out of ancient times and tied to now mythical, but back then very real, beliefs that forces were at work, usually from any one god you gained favor or disapproval from. Instead of "luck", there are favorable and...
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    short strategies and short interest

    Besides the obvious reason why, is there anything else you manage to dig out of that figure?
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    How much is enough to retire?

    Or marry the right person, raise your children with discipline, and be mature enough to understand that keeping up with the joneses is not a lifestyle choice. Yeh, yeh, requires effort and moral fortitude, but don't let that stop you.
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    End of the bear?

    What lousy bastards. After the bubble crashed, some months afterwards, they ran a special on how the media was part responsible in hyping the bull market, and incredibly, they even slapped their own wrists citing and showing how they also did things on air such as wear party hats when the dow...
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    david blaine---magic ??

    You want all the secrets, huh? I haven't seen the "standing on the pole illusion", but I'll give you the "embedded in ice". I'm sharing these as they've already been publicy outed elsewhere. Otherwise, I'm sworn to secrecy. There are 2 people taking shifts in the ice block. One is the...
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    problem with the IB java plug in

    I'm set up the same way as you, but I can see both. The problem may lie elsewhere.
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    david blaine---magic ??

    About the levitation illusion: A good part of the theatrics was that the over-the-shoulder shots from the spectators' view of Blaine rising off the ground by several feet was filmed with an explanation to the onlookers that this was a demonstration of how *other* magicians perform a...
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    Parabolic Stop and Reverse

    http://www.incrediblecharts.com/technical/parabolic_sar_construction.htm But from what I've seen, my guess is that there's probably a fair amount of unemployed traders that could tell you lots about SAR.
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    Triangle Formation?

    Jack, I thought i was finally breaking through and getting an understanding of your posts (you must know by now that they read somewhat ethereal and esoteric), but I must admit that this: really reads like Nostradamus!
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    Checking assumptions: Random price chart generator

    Have you thought about having a chimpanzee program the excel macro? That would really make it random. :D
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    How to Improve your Stock Trading via Futures Trading

    Have you considered the possibility that maybe you used to be more impatient than you are now?
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    How many traders have hands that hurt?

    Stop doing push-ups. You're bending your wrists for extended periods and putting all your weight on the joints. Save that torture for when you're making love, and switch your exercise to a weight-lift routine instead, doing curls to build/maintain biceps, for example.
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    Stops...

    I concur. I use mental stops. Times in the past I placed stops, I swear they always got hit, no matter where I placed them. Using mental stops, even just yesterday the price was within a few cents of hitting my stop, but never did. Good thing, stock shot up today and I got a nice profit. Betcha...
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    Career Advice - Let's Have Some Ideas

    I don't know if it's still possible to get this done, but years ago I met a successful person who got into his business just because of this: He took an aptitude test and found what things he would have a proclivity for. Then he went to work in a firm that did whatever he was good at, and one...
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    how to minimize the slippage?

    trade hi liquidity use limit orders
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    money equals happiness ???

    Having money buys a more comfortable lifestyle than being poor, not necessarily happier. Happiness comes from within, otherwise it can only be superficial, as it's imposed by circumstances outside you and therefore, fleeting in nature. For some people, money makes them nastier, like a mean...
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