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I remember reading about a survey of funds managers many years ago. In it was asked how many looked at a daily, weekly or even a monthly chart and it was suprising how few did. If you look at the chart then you see the real battle was around 850 - that support was tested a few times and it...

- is the US able to manufacture their essentials without imports - are the essential services serviced from inside the US (e.g. powerplants, sewage treatment plants, electricity distribution net, a lot is controlled from India?) - where does the oil come from? - are the ships able to...

Sorry to burst your bubble: if you have to ask this then you are unlikely ready to trade. Backtesting is only one aspect of the testing discipline, there is a lot more to it and this is why most automated systems eventually fail. More often than not backtesting results in curve fitting a system.

No need for a war. Just cut off all support for the US and the US will crumble from within. US cannot survive without the rest of the world. May happen by default when the US dollar becomes junk....

preparing for the food riots that are going to come once the market crash completely has immobilized the country

and there is the pentabyte, yes that monster data warehouse has been proven to be working... ps dads first 8086 had initially two 136 kb floppies and later he was proud as anything to have a 5 Mb HDD.... Let's not forget the 128 kB memory that was later upgraded to 256K. Bill Gates...

and the overnight move in the 10 year notes was unreal, I'm spinning, have not had a lot of sleep yet.... Maria

cnbc has quotes too yahoo ditto

nah, still two other options: 1) ring up Lloyds and ask what it will cost you to insure your account against IB going under , will give you a good idea what they think about them and 2) you are only worried if you know that you cannot trade it together again. Any trader worth their salt can get...

hmmmm... first post too - sets alarm bells ringing here on the poster.... Maria

I'll second that. It will be a long journey and it may be the hardest dollar you'll ever earn. best wishes Maria

No way, it darn well ain't over yet. Since you are such a trading guru I let it to yourself to figure out why. Maria

simple: the market will do what will hurt the most. translated: when every man and his dog are short on a thin market watch out for a short squeeze limit up, perhpaps multiple days..... More pain has to be inflicted and those gains have to come back! No easy money for the goats! :D :D...

Dad worked and lived in Asia for a long time. He had a staff member who was killed by his wife so she could have "freedom". He also mentioned that there were a number of marriages of the local girls to foreigners and that once these wives had access to the money etc then these husbands would...

Can tell you this: it took nearly 16000 hours to put together at an expense of several million. Software that had an annual cost of over 100 k US was utilised in the process. Hardware costs were substantial. Why would anyone want to disclose the goose that lays the golden eggs on a public...

You are evading the answer by replying with your own question. keep walloping in your delusion. I'm done with your stupidity, on ignore you go.

no kidding! :D :D :D my system showed that was highly likely...... trade what you see, not what you think is what dad told me.... Maria

I don't think he realises that refurbished means: "a lemon, with some hard to pin down issues and hence returned in the 30 day no questions asked period" and if they discover that it is after the 30 day return period then they'll finish up on eBait. (or is it oBoy) M

Tell me how the buying mania would have happened if 1) the authorities had taken proper steps (after LTCM) to ensure the proper safeguards and overseeing those ( in the derivatives market) and 2) ensuring that there was a decent deposit (e.g. 30%) for each purchase rather than lending 100%...

actually the whole thing is self fullfilling. banks started with their credit problems, so they got out of their trading en masse.... what happens if you just dump a large block because let's face it the banks never had any real trading skills.... next a lot of the funds are saying...