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    US Senators Unveil Plan Curb Oil Futures Speculation

    "It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses." Sir Winston Churchill
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    Question about health insurance for full time trader

    Now we just need doctors and medical device companies willing to work for nothing....
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    Award winning economist says America has bankrupted itself with the Iraq war

    And they haven't invented anything of significance since the guillotine.
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    Will the market plunge if (or when) Obama gets elected as Dem candidate?

    We haven't had an intelligent energy policy since Eisenhower. Let's blame Bush.
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    What is the fastest intel processor?

    I overclocked my Q6600 to 3.0GHz just by changing the FSB. I didn't want to mess with voltages and I don't need that extra 6%.
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    Relentless Upside Today...

    Puts have an equal number of buyers and sellers. But talk has many more sellers than buyers.
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    Never talk about the money you make with your friends

    I need to see this in a chart.
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    Boone Pickens Adopts Long Position on Oil

    And Soros funds the left. I guess he isn't a trader either.... In fact, most hedge fund managers these days give to one or both parties.
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    US T-Notes v T-Bonds

    True, but you also have to expect the unexpected. "Among the hazards of speculation the happening of the unexpected—I might even say of the unexpectable—ranks high." Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator
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    Is John McCain running a Bob Dole-like Campaign?

    After becoming President, Hoover increased taxes and restricted free trade (Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the 1932 Revenue Act). Democrats want to do the same. Pretty good talking points for McCain since the Dems like comparing Bush's economy to Hoover's even though there is no comparison.
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    ES (emini SP500) and 10 Year Note tracks opposite exactly?great trade setups!!!!!!!!!

    Depends on what time period you look at. Minute? Hour? Day? Week? Looking at weekly data since 1951, I see a 7.1% correlation.
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    Bernanke says Fed did not 'bail out' Bear Stearns

    If the Fed bailed out anybody, it was JPM.
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    IB TWS disable sorting function

    I have accidentally sorted it as well. I would like to be able to click on the change column and have it switch between price change and percentage change. Right now, you have to right click and select Toggle Display.
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    Global Warming???

    Let's start with simple solutions. Here in Phoenix, AZ, we have a sales tax to pay for new road construction. Hello? It would make more sense to have a gas tax pay for new roads.
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    IB TWS is the most confusing trading platform I have seen

    Hey now!!! I use IB's charting, but just to watch the market, not to trade it. My system is a quant system and doesn't involve intra-day trading, so the charts are good enough for me. But yes, the charting is definitely sub-par.
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    Obama Tax Return... Fits on 3" x 5" Card...

    Hillary Clinton's is even simpler. No annual tax filing. 100% is withheld from each paycheck.
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    Best Foods to Eat (Health-wise)

    Actually, they are 9 games under. 34-36-7 means that they won 34, lost 36 in regulation, and lost 7 in overtime. There are only 4 teams worse than the Islanders.
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    Best Foods to Eat (Health-wise)

    The Islanders are one of the worst teams in hockey (34-36-7), so maybe this explains why....
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    financials % s&p500

    So which is it? 17.64% or 17.62%? lol
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    Where's the volume longs??

    Volume? We don't need no stinking volume!
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