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    Today's Extremes Foretold by Intense Commercial Trade

    Large trades show a much greater change than small trades with equivolume charts. I am interested in back tests of trend following systems using equivolume data.
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    Brazil Worried US Is After Its Oil and the Amazon

    Planned US military bases in Colombia increase regional tensions Xinhua - Li Rong, Li Xianzhi - ý1 hour agoý 27 (Xinhua) -- A US deal on military bases in Colombia is pitting Bogota against many neighboring countries, which feared the bases would threaten their ... Bolivia proposes vote on...
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    Trendline Trading

    I am not able to define trend lines for my computer programs. I think trend lines are sometimes an opinion and perhaps an illusion. I suspect speed lines might be defined sufficiently for me to write computer programs.
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    Escape from Dubai

    "His trouble began two years ago, just as the economy was beginning to show signs of strain. Since then property prices have plummeted, unemployment has risen and so have the arrests of expatriates in what, some suspect, is an effort to make foreigners pay for Dubai's downturn. "
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    Ending Somali piracy: few options for US forces

    http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-08-25-voa28.cfm Somalia Reels From Worst Humanitarian Crisis in 18 Years Voice of America - Joe De Capua - ý14 hours agoý A new report says Somalia is now in its worst humanitarian crisis in 18 years. And it warns things could get even worse. ...
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    reuters intraday prices

    I suspect that you are not living in the United Kingdom. "Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
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    Highest inflation in the world 2006

    http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-08-19-zimbabwe-inflation-quickens-crisis-persists "Zimbabwe's inflation rose to 1% month-on-month in July from 0,6% in June Zimbabwe saw hyperinflation reach 231-million percent last July until the unity government formed by President Robert Mugabe and...
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    Jokes 2

    http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/w/warren_buffett.asp Warren Buffett cartoons. They are copyrighted so I do not post them here.
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    Marketing your trader track record in raising outside money

    I remember one of my neighbors asking me for money for his money management business. It was a couple years ago. He said he could make 70 % / year using a mean reversion system. About a year later I recall asking how he is doing and he says he gave up, he is not trading at all, he works a job...
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    House price ETF´s Macroshares Major Metro Hsg Up / Down started trading today

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    How to find "stocks in play" and hot stocks and relatively strong/weak stocks?

    I sometimes examine the relative strength rankings of stocks as published in Investors Business Daily newspaper. Sometimes I look at: http://www.nasdaq.com/ http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/asp/52weekshilow.asp?exchange=NASDAQ and I look at a lot of charts.
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    Lumber Liquidators LL

    I notice Lumber Liquidators Inc., stock symbol LL appearing on the new 52 week high list. I read at yahoo.com that LL is a retailer of hardwood flooring. I notice that net income, revenue, assets, equity, and liabilities are all increasing. I calculate the ratio of assets to debt approximately...
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    What Are Plunging Copper, Iron Ore & Aluminum Prices Saying About Global Economy?

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    I think I discovered the big guys' secret...share your secrets here!!!

    And here is the chart one day later. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2544851 \img>
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    ES takin it on the chin

    Short term oil, bonds, dollar, SP500 and gold price charts this morning.
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    Oanda Order Types

    As I recall "stop orders" is a term used for stocks but not for currency or futures trading. People associated with different marketplaces may use slightly different language. A stop order might be a limit order at some exchanges.
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    The Saudi Arabia of lithium

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8201058.stm Bolivia "Down there is a great reserve of brine, and contained in the salty liquid, the largest deposits in the world of the lightest metal, lithium." http://www.mii.org/Minerals/photolith.html "It is...
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    I think I discovered the big guys' secret...share your secrets here!!!

    OK let's watch this. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2543406 \img> "according to this method, there will be a turning point in the ES today at the open." Gubinec's post timestamp is 08-17-09 01:44 AM
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    I think I found a trick

    This price behavior reminds me of something from an interview with Nassim Taleb: http://www.derivativesstrategy.com/magazine/archive/1997/1296qa.asp "I was obsessed with price formation. I couldn't understand from the screen how prices were determined. It took me six months to be able to...
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    van der moolen

    I am surprised that specialists do not always make money. http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-netherlands-van-der-moolen,0,4932827.story Dutch trading firm Van der Moolen files for protection from creditors By Associated Press 1:21 AM PDT, August 10, 2009...
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