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    what school has the dumbest mascot?

    University of California at Irvine has Peter the anteater The anteater as mascot The UCI mascot is the anteater. This 430-pound statue is a gift of the class of 1987.The anteater was chosen in 1965 when students were allowed to submit mascot candidates, which would be voted on in a...
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    Landmark decision promises massive relief for home owners and trouble for banks

    There is a principle of "fairness" in the law. A lender is not totally screwed but has the right to sue in court for a "fair" result. Usually a lender has a forclosure "mechanism". If by splitting up mortgages he loses the "mechanism", there will be other procedures to follow. Most likely...
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    fund performance tracking software.

    If its your fund, Excel can calculate each accounts performance and you can aggregate results for the whole fund.
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    fund performance tracking software.

    Investor's Busness Daily ranks funds by performance. The period will vary from day to day. For Example the 9/14/09 edition has 2009 YTD % change 12 wk % change There is also a 36 month performance ranking A-E
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    Confessions of a successful trader

    I couldn't imagine that there were so many INTJs on ET. I have just started day trading this year, am profitable, and make enough money to live on so long as I am not too fussy about what I eat. INTJ's occur only about 1% in the general population. For those unfamiliar with Myers-Briggs...
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    help a ETer out

    Use an option collar...buy an OTM put and sell and OTM call. The call is a covered call so can also pick the stike as a profit target. The put you buy can be paid for by the money you get from the call. If the stock tanks, the put will rise in value and the call will drop (buy back the call...
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    Best and worst influences on my P&L over the last 10 years

    I find ET useful. War stories serve to help console one's soul after a bad day and to set realistic goals for one's own performance. I find really helpful tidbits occaisionally. The process is like panning for gold. You have to shift through a lot of dirt and rubble to get to those few...
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    Los Angeles - Where are the traders in this huge city?

    I am in Orange County near South Coast Plaza. Where be ye?
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    Why is no one talking about the S&P500 P/E ratio?

    I think you guys are looking at the wrong ratio. The correct pee ratio is the ratio of the the size of the puddles beneath the bulls and bears
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    Formula for Calculating Slope of 200 Day Moving Average

    No...that is too crude to be useful. You want the slope "Today" so a better estimate is (today-yesterday)/1 day or "Rise over Run". You might want to try (today - ndays_ago)/n to smooth out some near term jitter but since you are using a 200 day, you may not need more than a tiny "n".
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    If Taxes Rise, Should You Form An LLC or Incorporate?

    A "C" corporation can setup a defined benefit program for its employees. The deduction for a defined benefit (DB) can get quite large. A DB is the way to go for older employees of the corporation. The DB deduction escapes the payroll taxes (Social Security, Medicare, unemployment). A DB...
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    24 single looking to go full time into day trading

    Look at a Utube video "Before He Trades"
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    Health Care for Day Traders

    With everyone focused on paying for health care, the price will continue to go up. A shift in focus needs to be done. The focus should be on the supply of health care. 1. Mandatory first aid and basic "mommy care" medical training in high school. 2. Rank doctors by Moodys AAA-BBB where...
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    Are there any BULLISH "black swans"?

    Goverment Organizations have people, plant, and equipment just like any tax paying business. If government orgs had to cover their own costs (like businesses do) and pay a dividend to the country (like businesses do) then that would be a major boost to the stock market.
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    SQL for trading...?

    A caution about Where clauses...if you are comparing by using a function of a key column, you toss away any index on that column which will make your query run real slow.
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    SQL for trading...?

    I am an Oracle guy but I havn't used SQL lately in trading analysis. SQL is best used on sets of data. I have used SQL to curve fit using least squares cyclic data. I could probably suggest a SQL query that would perform well if you told me: Table column names Record counts Table...
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