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    How do I start a business managing people's money?

    3 set-ups were identified: 1) LLC 2) Managed individual accounts 3) Loan to LLC 1) I think LLC is really the most flawd route. It gives very little legal protection to either investors or the trader. LLC will probably have someone with a signing authority on the account... and it will...
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    How do I start a business managing people's money?

    Even with a hedge fund fee structure (2% of the assets + 20% of the absolute return), the O.P. gets $135k, which is arguably still not enough to run an office with 1 employee... > 2% of the assets is 30k > 20% above S&P 500, which returned 15% is 35% return on 1.5M or 525k, which accrues 20%...
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    Employers not hiring the unemployed!

    My guess is they are talking of: 1) Qualifications required to perform particular jobs. It's bizzare but to write a High Frequency Trading platform with Direct Market Access you don't need any specific qualifications but to paint someone's house you need to be certified. So do you if you want...
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    Calling all C++ programmers

    That's the most efficient solution! Alternatively, you can use OLE date-time format where the date-time is a floating point number and increase by 1 means 24 hours (or exactly 1 day) later. The best part with OLE format is the dates and time in a CSV file can be read, understood and saved by...
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    Congress "nutters" risk global finance: UK minister

    Haha! This is a great example of creative use of the English language. Shortie, I am looking forward to reading more of your pearls.
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    "Fire all the MBAs": General Motors, Bob Lutz

    Among those for whom the American Dream has come true there is also a disproportionately high percentage of people with ADD. However, running business is not for everyone. Most would prefer to have a well-paying professional job any time... and in the corporate world good education is a must.
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    Iceland refuses to honour international agreements

    I just tried following your link, found it didn't work, and posted what I believe is the correct version of your link.
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    priceactionlab questions

    Thanks for the link! Besides using only 2 or 4 cores the biggest restriction is (3) Patterns found after running different copies of the program cannot be merged in a common database That's a very good suggestion. Thanks! In particular, before following the link JackR posted I didn't...
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    Employers not hiring the unemployed!

    It's just a stigma that if someone looses a job they probably were not as good as the people who stayed in employment. In fact, not hiring the unemployed is a great example of "herd behavior". If others refused to hire a person for the last 6 months, they probably found some serious...
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    Employers not hiring the unemployed!

    Might depend on the pay range. If the pay after taxes, medical insurance etc barely beats the dole, this may explain the lack of enthusiasm. siafx, do you also have any statistics regarding whether "couch guys" had to take a suibstantial pay cut compared to their most recent job? However...
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    priceactionlab questions

    Your answer is much appreciated! I am considering upgrade to a 24-core system. So, if priceactionlab scaled near linearly with the number of cores, that would be a great upgrade. My current systen has only 2 cores. So, I am not in a position to judge the scalability from personal experience.
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    Iceland refuses to honour international agreements

    Open zdreg's original URL, then remove the last letter (which happens to be "s") from the URL... you'll get the link I posted. I doubt it's a pure coincidence.
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    priceactionlab questions

    I have to admit this is the first time I used "flaming" to "bump" the thread... and it worked wonderfully. Sadly, no one replied to my original question...
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    Iceland refuses to honour international agreements

    try this link http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/us-greece-ratings-idUSTRE76I5M220110719
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    "Fire all the MBAs": General Motors, Bob Lutz

    They don't go straight into management though. These MBA's make good risk managers and office managers (the latter is glorified P.A.). Most top schools don't accept applicants without a couple fo years of real-job experience.
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    Congress "nutters" risk global finance: UK minister

    Everyone is entitled to voice opinion on the forums... however misjudged or unsubstantiated it is.
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    priceactionlab questions

    I guess priceactionlab is dead then.
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    Congress "nutters" risk global finance: UK minister

    Well, US default is more dangerous hazard to global financial system than Greek default. However, maintaining US debt cap at the cost of the default would be a great long-term move for most US tax-paying residents, not so good for banks. Given the recent bailout package for Greece I would...
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    Build Your Own - Step by Step ( i7 2600k)

    That's in California. In Svalbard they just save a little boiler fuel. Also your comment explains why some people care beyond reason about power consumption of monitors. It transpires they all live in Southern United States and want to avoid intalling extra air conditioning.
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