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or quicktrader's "how to turn a respectable thread into an AOL chat room instantly"

You have to do both to have a prayer of longterm survivorship.

Funny... I was actually going to mention him. I'll never forget "bring me your finest meats and cheeses". An entertaining day on ET that was....

try this thread... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10006

I do, but just because I'm afraid of them using my credit card for fraud. I worked at a place during college where some of the wait staff would take the credit card numbers of people who stiffed them and buy something for themselves at LL Bean. It's probably harder to do this now, but it's a...

maybe it's your video card that's f*cked.

congratulations on the first sentence i've ever seen with seven negatives in it. i know you did it on purpose but it's an admirable feat nonetheless.

I am not familiar with how it works if you are out of the country, so you will have to find that out somehow. But here in the U.S., if one has an idea they believe is marketable, there are a few considerations. The first is whether or not you need other people to invest in your idea while it...

why don't you contact an employment recruiting firm and create a business plan. surely if your idea is legit you'll be able to find someone to share your risk.

I may get in trouble for telling you this, but there is a secret news letter that only Elite members and Moderators get to read. It lets us know about the market manipulation before it happens so we can get out of the way.

Damn, I just noticed that the original guy's post was from a year ago today, not today.

How old is your monitor? It may be time for that flat panel display you've been wishing for....

This is a huge field and entire books have been written about it. If you are interested in risk management from an institutional perspective, you should read "Dynamic Hedging" by Taleb, or something similar. There is a new edition of this book coming out in a couple months so you may want to wait.

You should start a Journal thread since you are good at keeping a thread going by yourself. I hope this doesn't sound sarcastic... I don't mean it to be.

Good point, except I have a bunch of computers, not just the two. It is possible to be rich and smart.

877 is a tollfree exchange now.

As a followup, I joined and received my first book in new condition for $3.75, the price of shipping. I have no idea how they make any money, but I don't really care.

I use NAQ for my EOD data. I've been using them for a few years now. The prices on this link are in Canadian, so it will be cheaper if you're in the U.S. http://www.naq.com/eodservice_$.asp

To network two computers together, you will need a cheap hub (about $30), two network cards (probably $20 each) and two cables to attach each computer to the hub. Then you will need to set up TCP/IP on each computer, assigning IP addresses and using the same subnet mask so they will recognize...

Unfortunately, "Resources" is out of my jurisdiction so I can't kill it.