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Quote from science_trader: Quote from Hamlet: Name a country that the US brought democracy to? How about preserving it in most of Europe in WW2 for starters. You clearly forget those countries were ALREADY democracies before the war ! Other examples ? Common, you will find one if...

Name a country that the US brought democracy to? How about preserving it in most of Europe in WW2 for starters. Bombing Iraq towns and their water/power plants? That was during the first 2 weeks of the war. Is Afghanistan perfect? No. It's a hundred times better than it was. It is no...

What does the French and British in the revolutionary war have to do with the US ousting a dictator and jump starting a new democratic govt in Iraq? I don't see any analogy there. You think 9/11 was our fault? There probably isn't much I can say then to change your mind about that very...

I thought you were asking about some sort of diet pill. I came here to ask if anyone has tried provigal for mental alertness while trading. http://www.provigil.com/

Why must I be a Republican? It's about economics and common sense, not political parties. It's about local people taking responsibility for their own problems. You say the war in Iraq is utter stupidity. I'm glad you said that because it exposes the hypocrisy of your thoughts in a beautiful...

Taxes are fine to support the military and other ESSENTIALS. Not to pay for all the pork and special interest crap. Not to mention the fiasco of the Katrina aftermath. We have to pay Billions and Billions because a state was mired in corruption and never built the proper levies it needed to...

Must be a demographic thing.

How do they calculate or asses risk and quantify it into a charge? Do you mean that they do not charge for capital use at all, but on the level of risk that they deem your leverage to be used at? Is there any cap to this?

Boss had a point with his remark. The joking around and 'ball busting' is cool and fun in the moment, and also adds needed color to the sight. But I would suggest to the site administrator this : All those fluff posts get "tagged", which would mean that they would automatically get...

How would you not have to declare rent, since it is income? I don't know too many people who pay their rent in cash.

I have heard that Carlin is going through some sort of re-structuring, does anyone have information on this?

I think it could be a good system and would stick with it using better mm and make sure longs have decent beta to the hedge and also diversified enough (not too correlated to each other).

On the surface it sounds like a money mgmt issue. If your target is 2%/mo why did you allow yourself to lose what sounds like a big multiple of that in 3 months? How did the short hedge perform relative to the longs? Did your recent losers have different characteristics than the longs you...

I think the reason for the confusion regarding the correlation of QM/XLE is in the way that it is calculated. My settings were based on comparing values over 6 months, which resulted in .95. I should have used daily % change however, which yields a correlation of .53 - big difference! I...

Well, you either have to trade currencies or have a pretty decent understanding of the dynamics of trading with a retail dealer; perhaps that is a more accurate statement. I still find it hard to imagine some dealer sitting there micro-managing every little order that comes in the way that...

The correlation is about .95. The spread has not actually widened but narrowed and then crossed over last 2 weeks (that is based on 6 months data, if you are looking back only over one month then it appears to have widened. Funny thing how spreads change according to your historical...

You need something more than random entries.

That's all very interesting, I didn't realize retail forex was like the wild west (I thought the pink sheets was the last frontier). Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Here you are talking about return on investments related to tools of the trade. You need quotes don't you? You need an execution platform with connectivity don't you? I don't know what your return on the $300/ month investment would be since that depends on your skill as a trader/programmer...

You're right about it sounding like poppycock. From the viewpoint of someone who does not trade currency, this sounds hard to swallow. How or why could a firm who is offering you a quote to trade at, hold it against you for taking that trade regardless of what you are basing your decision on...