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Not exactly a trader, but I'd have to choose Sir John Templeton.

Interesting, Today I was looking at my trading notes from 2-29-2000 of 4 star plus long term recommendations (from a well known service). Had one followed the long term hold recommendations about half of the stocks tanked big time in five years. The other half went up maybe 50% or more...

TGregg, Nice setup. What make and size are your monitors? Thanks, Mike

Best wishes Maestro from all of us here on ET. Mike

To follow through: Five years ago, if you had merely taken your US dollars and converted them, then converted them back into US dollars today you would have more dollars today by far, despite the recent upturn in the US dollar: Holding Euros would have yielded you 40.1% more dollars...

The latest published auction results for a 6 month T Bill was paying an annual return of 3.76%. The interest income is exempt from local and state taxes, but subject to US income tax. If you are subject to US income tax at a rate of 28%, the after taxes would result in an approximate net return...

Dr. Zhivodka, So what platform are you using these days to get stability? Thanks, Mike

Short term, it is the statements from the Fed and their current policy of raising interest rates to counter inflation and the current housing bubble that is perceived by the market as bullish for the dollar. However, as John Templeton and Warren Buffet point out, the trade deficit and US govt...

Toonces, If you care to share, where did you go and what platform did you choose. Thanks, Mike

Well what are you looking for? It's a fact the the Fed has knee jerk reacted and swung too far in it's corrections, and then had to subsequently modify in the opposite direction casuing dire consequences to the economy, stock market, housing bubble, and now a possible housing bubble crash.

No they are gone long ago.

Really? Greenspan appears to be rather incompetent in his ability to do the job properly in that he appears to always overreact causing wide swings in the economy or particular sector he is attacking. Given that his job is not easy, but the irrational exuberance and housing bubble remarks are...

Southamerica, Excellent analysis. Part of the equation is the exponential expansion of the money supply M3 and the need to exponentially expand US issued debt instruments in order to finance the deficit. The Fed has not been able to influence government to reign in the deficits. The role...

So everyone who espouses a lower deficit, and forbid, a balanced budget is a moron as you say? Seems like calling the kettle black. Anyone with any wealth at all realizes that the deficit only leads to further inflation and the erosion of wealth. A nobrainer, so who is the moron?

What just happened to the post from the college professor who just posted that he lost $170k from Etrade while on vacation? Was this user deleted or deleted by ET? Maybe this was a fictional post because the poster had only one post on ET. Ebo probably has it right, a fictional post.

Say Odgnut, Where can the vertical stand for your printer to the left of your desk be purchased? Looks like a real space saver. Nice setup. Thanks, Mike

Thanks Gnome and Nononsense, Symantec (Norton) may be a stock to short. Had to do a complete system reinstall after the upgrade crashed the OS. No kind words from me about Norton and their tech support. The one useful prodcut I'll probably keep is the "goback" utility, which by the way was...

OK Thanks. I have two hardrives in parallel in Raid 1. How about if I take one out and set it aside just in case for a backup? Except that later on I'll have to figure ot how to get the extra drive back into the system, perhaps in a different configuration than raid 1. I knew I could count on...

While attempting to Upgrade Norton systems works from '02 to '05, I found out after the fact, that there are numerous problems that cause continual bluescreen system crashes. The tech support in India has no real solution and seem only to suggest BS solutions that don't work.They have admitted...

Yes just tried to install Norton Systemworks Pro. What a POS imo. System bluescreen crashes and tons of error messages. After many hours of install and clean reinstall, no luck getting it to work.