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It is a well known fact that 83.7% of all statistics are made up.

There is nothing wrong with C++. Most ISVs ship their apps built solely on C++. Visual C++ just means that you have a visual design studio so that what you see at design time is what you see at run time. MFC is one of several frameworks used to build visual apps. Moving to .NET you could...

I am not sure which version of Visual Studio or other developers tools you are using. But if you are using Visual Studio you can create an installer project which will create a MSI install package. In that package it is possible to include all the DLLs that you are dependant on. At installation...

Without a stress test you will never know. There are factors like number of cores, amount of RAM, 64 or 32 bit, what else is happening in the system, etc. .NET code can actually optimize faster than C++, or slower than C++. It depends on what you are doing. The code in question may execute...

The email header can be spoofed. They can put whether they wish there.

There are many ways to get your email address. Many of the sites where you register your name for newsletters, information, etc are easy targets for data mining. Some list servers by default allow you to send a 'List' command to get all the names much like you can send a 'subscribe' or...

This happens millions of times per day. There are pump and dumps schemes constantly going. Just ignore those just like you ignore the ones to enhance your body parts. Tracing email addresses is worthless since the headers can be spoofed. The only way to trace is through the message ID's...

I think your trading is affecting your porn viewing time.

I think that advice was a bit excessive. I sell puts all the time. You have to know what you are trying to accomplish, the risks and how to manage the trade. You can sell puts in a bear put spread. That would work better in a bear market with declining earnings. Never sell is not really a real...

Have you tried to contact Genesis?

Once I learned to stop trading my 'gut' I started being profitable.

Why not use a broker like thinkorswim that doesn't charge all these fees?

If you exercise you basically give away any remaining time premium. If you sell it you get the intrinsic and extrinsic. Unless there is some big dividend coming up that more than offsets the commissions and loss of extrinsic value there really is no need to exercise.

Thanks. I learn something every day! :) The only thing a bit nicer on the TD software was the ability to go up and down the ladder and change +/- numbers to build the spread. But it was only a bit nicer. Unbalanced double diagonals is about the most complex thing that I do.

Show me one country that refused the help. If we are as corrupt as you claim, the leaders in the reciving countries are just as corrupt for participating.

Reaver, I agree. I get so tired of this trash talk from countries that get billions from us. Let them scream after we pull our billions (maybe trillions) away.

I tried it at the Traders Expo. It has a few bells and whistles but cannot handle more than a simple spread order. I asked about a double diagonal and they said that would require 2 separate orders. I use TOS now and TD has a long way to go. The only feature I really liked that was tha ability...

Excel has no immediate way to know the format of the data feed. You will have to get the data into a known file format to import. However of the data feed you are considering supports a OLEDB or web services interface you can have Excel pull the data directly. Otherwise you will likely have to...

And I work for a large company that is always demonized as well. This comes from a combination of jealousy or inability to deal with their own problems. It is always better to blame someone else than yourself. I see this with traders as well. It was slippage, it was a bad fill, it was those...

You are not going to get margin in an IRA. You cannot cover a margin call in an IRA because you may be at your annual contribution limits. A cash covered short put is about as close as you are going to get. I do mostly options in my one of my IRA's and I will substitue a vertical for a full...