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1) I presume you meant "treat" not "threaten" 2) Sucking up to some people while behaving arrogantly to others is a personal choice that has little to do with wealth. In fact, there is strong evidence that treating rich, famous, beautiful and powerful people the same way as anyone else goes a...

I concur. Knowing your strengths and being able to take full advantage of them is always great. However, it's wise to refrain from pigeonholing yourself. According to knowyourtype.com People scored the same on a subsequent administration of the test about 75 percent of the time. About 1 in 1,000...

By these standards depending on the spending appetite, entering the list of World's 100 richest people may not be rich enough. For some "rich" is being able to say "my yacht is bigger than yours" to other rich people.

IB offers both.

Disproportional moaning is purely cultural fenomenon. Not only it is socially acceptable to the extent that people would watch "celebs" competing at moaning on television... not only people listen to stand-up comedians that do nothing but moan on stage, but moaning is actively encouraged via...

(Besides the fact that most governemnt officials have mortgages on their homes) the purpose of low rates it to keep people spending. With inflation sky-rocketing and cash saving accounts paying next to nothing, the only option for savers is "investment". With equity investments basically flat in...

and it costs a small fortune. Over 500 bucks for a graphics card!

The true part of this post is to be successful as a trader you have to be able to recognise you have been wrong. When you are in a position and the reason you entered this position is no longer there you should be able close the position without any harm to your self-esteem. Given the society...

Flat Euro, short US Dollar (against other currencies) this week-end. Let's see.

1) Unless you have admin rights on the PC (which in a big company you wouldn't unless your job is software developer or network administrator) you won't even be able to disable the keylogger without external help 2) When you are using your own equipment, make sure you know who your boss, his...

This is an insightful comment. (I wanted to reply to an earlier post criticising MBT but it looks like the moderators deleted it. Anyway, from memory...) Datafeed might not be the best in the industry but it's one of the better brokerage datafeeds (and free). If you are unhappy, you are...

I was running a system with narrow stops just before Lehman collapse. The exchange used to and still handles narrow stops just fine. (Make sure the broker places stops with the exchange and doesn't execute them themselves.) When the collapse happened steady moves tick-by-tick disappeared and...

There is no "firm" maximum except for what Windows enforces. (It is pretty high though. Possibly 48 monitors on Win7.) Assuming you use these for charting and not playing high-definistion video or computer games, you can add a few USB graphics cards without even opening the case. If you are not...

(Unless you connect monitors via analogue interface like VGA), the card doen't make any difference to picture quality whatsoever. If you are having issues with "refresh rate", disable Aero. It serves no useful purpose except for eye candy and forcing people to pay through the throat for an...

this is a good list. if you approach the course creatively, all of these teach you how not to loose money too fast. none of them actually teach how to make money.... andposition scaling on 5-second timescale is different from scaling on a monthly timescale.

If you have unspent dedicated hardware budget, you might want to wait till later this year. 8-core Xeons E5 (which appear as 16 processors each thanks to hyperthreading) with unlocked multiplier for overclocking may just hit the sweet spot. I suspect motherboards that can house 2 or more...

And the fee can be pro-rata in relation to the loan period... and very close to the prevailing interest rate for the the type of loan There is a whole area of "Islamic finance". For example, bigger contracts are structured so that they are repo rather than loans. Then the fee (say, for storage...

You need to decide for yourself what you think IB did wrong: 1) Did your position ever was in teh state of "margin call"? Normally IB give clients a littlew time to liquidate position when this occurs. The price may get better or worse over this time. They do not try to "predict" where the...

1) Dollar exchange rate has no identifiable effect on weather conditions, which adversely affect harvest 2) The major effect is Chinese population getting richer. So, they are prepared to pay more for food and people in poorer countries are outpriced 3) It is more profitable to grow fruit. So...

I was hoping this thread would develop into some kind of phylosophical discussion.