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    Facebook worth 60 billion someday?

    He also wants large corporations to be more transparent. "Little people" are of no interest because they don't promote laws, spend large sums of tax money, or become the source of a financial crisis. If someone spends her unemployment check on a computer game or his hard-earned money on a...
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    Mexican bearer bonds

    which is the holy grail for drug dealers and black-market weapon merchants. After GM and Ford stopped issuing bearer bonds, Mexican government is probably the main source of these now.
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    Views on the IMF

    Found clear attribution to Jim Rogers on the front page of beeland.com. ALso the domain name is owned by teh smae entity as jimrogers.com. So, after a little research this looks legit to me. On the subject of IMF, a couple of stories: IMF, the Real Dictator in Tunisia Obama Administration...
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    Collection agencies

    True! At least, they won't take the house itself. They also can't obtain a court order in a one-sided manner. So, the debtor would receive an advance notification of any such court hearing... In Spain it can get much more fun before lawyers get involved...
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    Depositing Physical Stock Certificates

    The easiest thing is to ask your broker as a "hypothetical" question. The broker is there for your commissions, they are not a secret police. They are not gonna pursue you for the rest of your life because you mentioned stock certificates a couple of times.
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    Collection agencies

    The guy may be irresponsible but he doesn't look an idiot to me. Perhaps, he tries to live in the real world where people can afford to buy things without a loan.
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    New Bloomberg Backtesting Functionality

    ballsofgold, any updates on the functionality? How does it compare with other backtesting tools you may have used?
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    Views on the IMF

    Do you have a link to this article on more a reputable Web-site? Or maybe in a newspaper or magazine publication? I would hesitate to say this article is written by Jim Rogers where an anonymous poster attributes it not even to Jim Rogers but to jimrogers.com
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    New Bloomberg Backtesting Functionality

    Wrong! The most widely used software in the financial space would be Microsoft Excel by a wide margin. (That is after Windows which is technically software too.) What is "the best" is very much subjective. Well, it's not Bloomberg's goal to be the best in every space. The only area where...
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    GUI Design for Trading Parameter Configuration

    You are welcome! Alternatively, you may re-consider "custom" serialisation. Whenever you change the list of parameters, old parameters serialized in a file become invalid. When you reach a certain number of parameters, it becomes a lot of hassle to manually enter values of all parameters...
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    GUI Design for Trading Parameter Configuration

    The alternative would be to serialize "native" struct Parameters as an array of bytes, but this approach is less robust.
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    GUI Design for Trading Parameter Configuration

    The beauty of C++/CLI is that Microsoft imlementation produces "mixed-mode" compiled executables. So, the same piece of code can use both .NET and native types. The easiest solution would be to make the structure containing parameters a manged object in C++/CLI. After you change the structure...
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    Mexican bearer bonds

    I wouldn't say they are worthless. They are antique collectibles now... and their market value has nothing to do with the face value.
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    GUI Design for Trading Parameter Configuration

    I undesrtstand the key requirement is GUI code should need NO modification whenever parameters are added or removed. So, nothing fancy, just an extendible list of parametrs... Given you need only basic GUI, the easiest thing is to create GUI in C++/CLI (former managed C++). This way you can...
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    not too expensive real time platforms?

    From your question it appears you want to watch a large number of stocls in real time. Then you perhaps want to add real-time screening. MS Excel is pretty good at it. Broker data is often not the most reliable/best quality one but it's certainly the cheapest. The difficulty is to get it you...
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    Facebook worth 60 billion someday?

    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that Facebook is complacent in providing the U.S. government with a way to spy on its citizens, calling it "the most appalling spying machine ever invented." http://www.pcworld.com/article/226878/julian_assange_facebook_is_an_appalling_spying_machine.html
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    any recommendation for free real-time charting software that work with IB???

    It's because Ninja honestly loads the charct every time. On the other hand, MC saves the loaded history and keeps tracking the symbol so that when you want to see the chart again it already has the data. I understand MC was originally designed a TradeStation clone for IB. So, it is there to...
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    Jerry M. and new Quote Tracker ??

    If that's true, good luck to the team!
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    Non US LLC (such as incorporated in Singapore) trading in US??

    The simple rule is if you are using a limited company to do something you could do as a person (such as trading), from the view of tax authorities it's your personal income and not the company's income. I'm sure thre are restrictions and limitations but the company being in a different country...
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    Rating agencies, where did they get their power from?

    Debaser82, you may find this reinforces your views: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/05/15/why-is-the-govt-trying-to-block-an-independent-credit-ratings-agency/
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