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    Min. number of programs?

    That number seems a little high. I have currently browser, firewall, antivirus, ms word and media player running and the number of processes equal 28. Essential processes for booting xp must be around 16.
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    URGENT, Secure Device Required for TWS

    Most times they will install when you mistakenly open an infected email attachment etc. Sometimes (rare) they will install bypassing a hole in the internet explorer or the operating system. A software firewall will protect you in most cases by giving a warning that an unknown application is...
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    URGENT, Secure Device Required for TWS

    I m not an expert but a well designed Trojan doesn¢t only record keystrokes but also the message queue of the operating system etc. so when an application (for example roboform) communicates with internet explorer the password passed to the forms are also intercepted by the Trojan.
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    anyone sead this book? Options futures and other derivatives

    It¢s a good reference textbook covering a variety of topics.
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    How safe is it to be online without a firewall/antivirus

    afaik it gives you extra options, for example if a trojan is somehow installed in your pc then the software firewall will note that an application not currently in your ¡allow¢ list is trying to transmit data and it will block it.
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    How safe is it to be online without a firewall/antivirus

    It will work for unlimited time. I had it for some months and its ok but now I ¡m using comodo firewall. It¢s a little more annoying than sygate until you set the rules but imo it¢s the best firewall.
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    neiderhoffer

    :) 4 threads on ET with Neiderhoffer in the title and only one for Ed Thorp?
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    Has anybody built their own computer here?

    If you only need two monitors you can build a very good trading pc for only 600 – 800 $ and you can spend your money on getting two quality monitors. Example … Motherboard ASUS P5B-E plus retail , cpu core 2 duo 4300 or 4400, 2x1 GB of 667 MHz ram, a 250 GB WD sata2 hard disk, a brand...
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    I just got an assignment...HELP

    I haven't read the thread (all 19 pages) but 'don't trade' is also an advice and sometimes a good one (for example when someone can’t estimate the true risks of his position either by lack of knowledge or by overconfidence). :-) And no I m not one of the minority experts with 95% accuracy...
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    Nasim Taleb Speaks Wednesday

    Haven’t read his last book but have read some of the draft chapters he had uploaded to his homepage two years ago. If you enjoy reading books then buy it but don’t expect this book to make you rich. You will enjoy reading it thought … Quote from one of the draft chapters …
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    Anyone buying Vista?

    Vista install in 2 minutes ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno
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    Investing in Kurdistan

    As far as I know it’s the only area in Iraq that takes advantage of the inflow of money instead of blowing up each other so there is hope and potential for them. Taking also into account the area is oil-rich it isn’t surprising there is interest for investments there.
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    3200% Return

    :-) It can happen especially in periods like 2003 but it is almost impossible to know beforehand which stock will run most. Back in 2003 I made a little experiment by throwing a few thousand euros on two stocks with crappy fundamentals with the only criterion being that both traded at 0.30...
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    Advice you wish you had gotten in your early 20s

    Last time I tried to suggest to a teenager that his point of view may not be the correct one the reply had the F word uniformly distributed in it.
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    Stocks are random variables

    There are many reasons why markets are not efficient. One of them is that you are not just guessing what the fair value of an asset is and buy it if it’s cheap, but guessing human behavior - what others will think and how they will act on this asset.
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    How Kynikos Associates Profited from the Gaming Bill

    :D Seems like Kynikos Associates follows a philosophy similar to the new meaning of the word cynic instead of the initial one.
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    Opera 9.10 released

    Opera sells browsers for other platforms. For example Nintendo's products (Wii, DS) have a version of opera based on the PC version technology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxj-E4VOkcg
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    Anyone using the hoadley XL add-in?

    It shows how your P/L diagram will look like in 1, 2, .... trading days in the future, up until the first expiry.
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    Anyone using the hoadley XL add-in?

    For simple tasks it is easier to make your own custom excel spreadsheet than learning to use an add-in. The add-in will be useful if you need for example garch etc. as it is difficult to implement the optimization algorithm in VBA etc. For a simple calendar you can use something like this...
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    IB Olympiad Winners

    If you think about it the way to maximize your wining chances in a paper trading competition with many participants is to follow some extremely odd and risky strategy, something you will never use in real life. If you imagine the distribution of the participant’s wealth at the ending of the...
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