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    Legalised Prostitution

    I want to hear from guys from Bangkok and other areas where prostitution is legal. What kind of influence does it have on the economy and the culture. I'm guessing its a tremendous positive, and that prohibition of prostitution is having the same disastrous effects on our economies as the...
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    Free-market "failures" and South American socialism

    Corrections: China's growth rate is not 10%+ in the past decade, more like 7-10%. Probably 1% organic growth and the rest FDI driven and intellectual property theft driven. India has way more economic freedom and political freedoms, thus more organic growth. Regulated markets, not free...
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    The Psychopathology of Everyday Trading

    The value of rememberance seems to be in the fact that dismermerment, dissapasion, and entropy seem to be the predominant forces acting upon the universe. Remembering the dismembered past can create order wanted and unwanted. With memory you either tie youself to the past with either golden...
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    New IRS schedule D requirements

    There is no way I'm going to account for every single transaction. I'd like to see them asking any other business (say Walmart) to account for each transaction. They can waste their resources on auditing me if they like. For independent traders, simply stating your net PL for the year and...
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    Why Gold is jumping?

    Do gold stocks raise and fall by a much larger % than the moves of the underlying commodity? It seems to be the case but not sure of the reason.
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    Adding to Winners/Losers

    From "Speculation As A Fine Art And Thoughts On Life" by Dickson G. Watts (written around 1880):
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    traders who are deeply religious

    Most people who have a belief on an issue usually act as the Judge, Jury, and the Prosecutor on the issue. I like to see myself as the Scientist, Lab, and the Subject...trail and error, experience is the best teacher.
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    What Do You Do Just Before Trading? Meditate, Soft Music?

    Well if you want to go down that path you may want to try: http://www.centerpointe.com/index.php http://www.mindfold.com/index.htm
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    self-sabotage

    Life/Trading is 100% physiological. There is no evidence of the existance of the mind as anything other than an epiphenomenon (a secondary phenomenon that accompanies another) of the body. Before self-sobatage happens physical forms always make themselves evident as warning signs - whether its...
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    Magic and the "subconscious"

    I like this book: The Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679776397/103-8629548-7344642?v=glance&n=283155
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    Magic and the "subconscious"

    That doesn't surprise me at all. Most people attracted to magick usually start off with various meditation, yoga, or zen systems and when the 'results' don't follow or aren't enough to satisfy their egos they opt for the more the more esoteric, supernatural, and fantasy land of magick.
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    Magic and the "subconscious"

    Introduction and Theormes: http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/aba/defs.html This introduction provides some insights, but most other writings on this subject seem to be a waste as they focus on the supernatural, but it seems the same can be said of many other systems that start off as an...
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    Where does everyone live/trade and how old.

    26M live/trade from Hoboken/NYC
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    the mathematics of persistence

    (1) Not many people are willing to wait a dozen years to make their first 5k (or even their first 50k, 100k, or 1,000k). People who are willing to wait tend to be very patient and seem to have a different sense of time (an almost eternal sense of time - the time is always now). (2) I think...
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    the mathematics of persistence

    When "family money" gets to be so large that it can pay for a Harvard MBA it usually correlates with decades of persistence when it comes to: cutting losses, riding and compounding gains, managing risk, and not fighting the trend. As far as kids inheriting huge sums of money after their...
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