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If you use the historical gold to oil ratios either gold should be over $1000 an oz now or oil should be in the low 40s. Take your pick.

jficquette- have you happened to see the amount of fat and obese people walking around? If anything, lifestyle diseases are going to choke the healthcare system.

True inflation is really tough to get to because it fails to capture quality of life enhancements. For example, if you figured your monthly budget 10 years ago, you would not account for things like broadband internet and cellphones. But now that is an expense basically everyone has. So it...

This was their plan all along - chase him around until he gets sick and dies.

If you watch the water running down the windshield too closely without watching where the CAR is going, you will crash into the car in front of you and the path of the water won't matter. Risk management is of utmost importance.

Anyone consider that Big Oil might want prices to fall sharply because they've gone net short oil? Think about it - they can short oil in the futures market, up production, drop the price and close out their shorts and then let the price drift back up. How can one find out the net position an...

I figured out when the housing market will bottom and will give you an unmistakable signal: The bottom will be 3 months after the first commercial of an attorney offering scorned ARM holders the opportunity to sue their mortgage brokers. We saw these ads going after stock brokers around 2002...

no wonder those Dec 2012 Oil contracts are trading so low....

Does anyone use an RSS Aggregator to track news feeds? What Feeds do you track and what Aggregator do you use? I am using Feedreader, but am looking for another, pref. free reader. Thanks.

Get some of David Dreman's books.

For you guys who scalp, when you file your taxes do you have to enter every trade, or do you aggregate them on the tax form to simplify things?

I'm working on a theory based on the 8/55 period MA crosses. Specifically buying when the 8 crosses the 55 going up, selling when it crosses going down. I'm still working on position sizing. Does anyone trade with a simple method such as this and could offer some advice on where I should take...

6 months ago, he was on CNBC saying Oil was going to $35. Good thing he was born rich or he would have gone broke trying to trade. Who cares what he thinks? Forbes and Paris Hilton both got rich the same way - they chose their parents well. Does anyone care about Paris Hilton's view of the Oil...

This is interesting: "The set the government doesn't talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government's accountants following standard accounting rules. It reports a more ominous financial picture: a $760 billion deficit for 2005. If Social Security and Medicare were...

You have to remember, CNBC is ENTERTAINMENT, not investment advice. Doing what they say is the same as watching ESPN and betting on the teams they like and then blaming them for you losing. CNBC exists for 1 reason, to get you to watch so they can sell ads. Period. They will whore themselves...

At what price of Oil do oil stocks stop going up due to the hedges they must be putting on? I remember several days ago when oil spiked to $78 or so, SU and other oil cos actually fell on the day. I would assume it was because we are at or near areas where oil companies have partially or fully...

Currently the Gold to Oil ratio is around 9, against a historical ratio of around 15. That suggests that either gold is underpriced, or oil is overpriced or both. Anyone put any weight on the gold/oil ratio?

I'm only interested in equities right now.

Thanks, that's very interesting. Does IB hold your licenses as well? Also, I presume if you have more than 15 clients, you need to register with the SEC, but what's the process to do that?

What are the mechanics of setting up a fee-only practice with discretionary segregated customer accounts? For example, each customer gets their own account statement, but all trades are made on a discretionary basis by me and I am compensated by a 1% management fee. I have all relevant...