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    Found a "trading laptop" need advice

    All Lenovos (used to be thinkpads..) work with docking stations.. even old docking stations.. The only caveat is that the newer weird things like firewire could be problematic on older docking stations.. They are like $200-300 new, but I got mine in excellent shape on ebay to my door for like...
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    Is TLT (20 yr bond index) self hedging?

    Like 30yrs roll every 3 months I think right?!?... so the turnover in the fund would be dependent on the futures contracts, no?
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    Found a "trading laptop" need advice

    Get something that supports a docking station... So you can go somewhere and run it off a big screen when its convenient..
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    Investment clubs and trading groups

    I hope you realize that by dropping the words "you'd like to join an investment club" you probably just guaranteed that you'll never succeed as a trader.... I hope they have tasty baked goods (baked of course by some losers wife who believes that his sick, dysfunctional "hobby" is going to...
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    starting trading

    You should go to the Tour De France next month and tell everybody there that you just started cycling and will be there next year to kick all their asses... (Not that ET is the Tour by any means... but you should see the absurdity...)
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    Is TLT (20 yr bond index) self hedging?

    I don't know enough about those daily numbers to offer anything with that in mind... - but the average duration of TLT portfolio was like 28 years last year... so you should use the 30 YR tbond to check it against...
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    Is TLT (20 yr bond index) self hedging?

    The TLT is well managed.... USO is just a scam for Market Makers to front run... Bloomberg pointed that out months ago..
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    Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme

    I'm sure the VCs know whats up.... But just in case.. they've been using russian money...
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    Famous traders websites?

    Warren Mosler- made 100s of millions investing in bonds and such with his own and others peoples money - http://moslereconomics.com/ Ed Seykota - http://www.seykota.com/ Also look up - Dunn Capital's website - http://www.dunncapital.com/ John Henry's website -...
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    Bitcoin thread anyone?

    Why did those two guys go up on that Startup TV show and admit that a french /japanese / american "investor" owns most Bitcoins.. and that the owner may have legal issues...
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    Liquidation of positions upon death

    Use a fill or kill order.... couldn't resist..
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    Anyone noticed crappy CEOS don't get fired?

    The problem is that these big Companies survive because of their size - they can bribe gov'ts for contracts, or to get lenient treatment on taxes, visas, etc.... They can go into the public or private Markets and get loans in virtually any business cycle, or they can be bailed out when things...
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    "Job Czar" and a new strategy for job creation for US economy

    Well that might be true in general.. but you need to try something out first.. try reading Franco Berardi and see how clear his thinking is about the economy.....
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    China building its first aircraft carrier

    They have so many steel mills and a f%$ked up demographic that I'm sure they can make it work....
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    Is TLT (20 yr bond index) self hedging?

    This should sharpen things up - http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/fipm.pdf Short answer NO - TLT is highly exposed to changes in rates because of the bonds long duration... theres no process that would adjust to rates changing as you suggest...
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    Why aren't all genius's rich?

    trading isn't just intelligence - it's like a performance.. the problem with intelligence is that it doesn't often let you "step out of the way".... A bullfighter who performs will kill the bull....otherwise... enjoy your theory.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_fcYvE9lj0
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    Swiss banks to turn over US clients' names to IRS

    With all this peddling back and forth between the US and SUI, perhaps the SUI can keep their Franc in check... without joining at the hip to that disease called the EUR
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    My Gmail account was hacked 6-10-11

    back late last year i guy i know had bots using his gmail to forward junk messages for viagra under his gmail name...They had all his email list sent the junk.. I think it went away a couple of days later.
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    Blackjack player beats 3 Atlantic City Casinos for $15.1M

    Or he was cleaning his money on the way out the door..
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    Hillary Clinton Seeking World Bank Presidency

    And you wonder why Refco is no longer in business..
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