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Right now Sunday afternoon odds: GOP holds Senate: 71.5% GOP holds House: 21% There has been a 2-3% uptick for GOP because of perfect Saddam verdict timing... And GOP has better "get out the vote" machine at local level. So chances of Dem sweep are only 22-23%... And certainly...

The most ironic thing... If you read that paper posted twice in this thread... Is that Iran is MORE dependent on the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf... than America. Iran actually imports 40% of it's gasoline... And it's treasury runs on oil revenues. For the US military... It...

Actually... Hillary is the Dem frontrunner... And I have read a lot of reports... that she is much tougher than Bill... And of ALL the current candidates for President... Hillary is most likely to wield a Big Military Stick. She has been carefully constructing a right-of-center record on...

I mostly agree with you... But Iraq is a purely artificial construct. Partition into 3 states is the answer... If Bush still had his balls... Because America would have a staunch ally in Kurdistan. Also... The Bush Administration would love to get rid of Rumsfeld... But they know that...

Iran's real short-term goal... Is to gain military control over the Straits of Hormuz with CONVENTIONAL forces... And turn the world oil supply on/off at will. Americans citizens will NEVER tolerate 100-200% increase in gasoline and heating oil... Thus... the Republican or Democrat...

And it's really not about Israel at all... It's about reestablishing the "Caliphate"... An Islamic Empire stretching from Africa to Southeast Asia... And eventually annexing Europe. These guys think in terms of centuries... Something unrelatable to the Western mind seeking only immediate...

Since only Israel is nuclear... And has very sophisticated devices and delivery systems... Israel would have to "allow" any given Muslim enemy state to complete a nuclear program. And since a series of Muslim state leaders... Have publically maintained a policy of pre-emptive genocide...

I'm gonna side with Mr. Black. "Paper trading", like "play money" poker, is 100% meaningless. You can use the term "virtual" if it sounds more important. The optimal strategy used to win this type of contest... Would be ** suicidal ** to employ in real markets with real money. So...

The best way to look at it... Is that you are developing a complete REPLACEMENT for the IB TWS platform... But a custom platform that AUTOMATES the specific trading that you already do. If you cannot design and code a TWS equivalent from scratch... Then you cannot design and code a...

Yes... I have to deal with same issues in my ATS hooked up to IB API. IB does not differentiate between a "sell" and a "short sell"... In terms of information you get through the API. You have to have entire sub-systems: (1) To manage your positions.. and keep your Blotter synched...

Alexa is very accurate for high traffic sites... Roughly the top 100,000 to 200,000 sites... Any site that gets > 1000 hits/day will be pretty accurate. The reason for inaccuracy... Alexa measures only hits by people that have the Alexa toolbar installed... Which I'm wild guessing to be...

The domain utube.com must suddenly be worth 100K... Or whatever the traffic redirection is worth. Just sell it... pocket the money... and get a new site.

YouTube is 1000 times more addictive than ET... it's like crack... but free. And UTube is just unlucky... too bad... that's business... They do not have a case just because their names are similar. If they were smart... they could easily turn all that erroneous traffic in cash... I wish...

Good response. The trust tax thing was never meant... As a means for Canada's largest corporations to avoid paying tax... By shifting the burden to shareholders of trusts. Also... I feel like I'm the only person paying taxes in this Canadian socialist paradise. And each and every one...

The Moon Bats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. That very special "John Kerry Moment" yesterday... was the beginining of the end.

I do not see any meanigfull difference in my stocks or profits yet on 250 trades/day... Other than greater fragmentation to ECNS... In fact, if I wasn't reading about Hybrid, I would not even be aware that "something is happening". The NYSE is steadily losing market share. If the...

So true... Exchanges, Clearing Firms, and Big B/Ds are beyond the law... While NASD examiners amuse themselves by constantly harassing small B/Ds over trivial matters. Since I terminated my membership in the NASD... I am a FREE MAN once again... and feel as good as James Brown.

This is a classic example that the Risk of Ruin... is very real. Hedge funds that were leveraged 6:1... And long these trusts that are correcting 10-15%... Could be pretty much wiped out. External bombshells like this... happen more often than people realize. I live in Toronto but...

The government's position appears to be... That a Giant Tax Loophole had been discovered... And 250 corporations have quickly exploited it... And now the Party Is Over. This should have been 100% predictable.

A bombshell. Ka-boom.