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Heh, heh... regardless of what the external marketing messages are, YOU are still responsible for what you take in and accept as "the truth". Ultimately, people's situations in life are 100% their choice. Unfortunately, most people get get to this stage of enlightenment and can't teach their...

Heh, heh... funny how Tol Brothers is all over the news today...

Are you calling the "trading system" relaxed, or your "emotional state"? I usually don't try to anthropomorphize my strategies, they just are what they are. Regardess of what tactics I employ, I'm always "relaxed" emotionally.

No problems because the Fed will just print as many dollars as needed out of thin air...

That's really the bottom line huh? Regardless of what type of government you have, democracy, oligarchy, communist, dictatorship, it's the same structure. Just a small group controlling the massses and profiting obscenely from them. :) I don't have the numbers, perhaps someone with an...

I like Ripley's numbers. So it's not even a zero-sum game, but negative. If you consider the market overall to be a big poker-table, the money's being shifted around, but is also being siphoned off. To keep the same amount of money on the table, you have to keep on feeding it cash. Sure...

Technically, Gecko didn't do anything illegal. Insider-trading is a regulatory issue, not criminal. The most that can happen is he ends up getting fined a huge amount and have his license suspended by the SEC. It's actually the Bud as an officer in the company that violated the rules by...

I doubt it matters what states they came from. Military training pretty much brainwashes you into mindless automatons to do as your commander wishes. The removal of reasoning and moral responsiblity is part of the process (like the Nazi excuse of "just following orders"). Then when natural...

I think zdreg pointed it out already that we're actually looking at 3000 options contracts? That's certainly possible, although depending upon the stock, that may be the entire float of options. ;)

Hey, with the current trend in real-estate bubble-popping as indicated by rising foreclosure-rates, excess inventory, longer times on market, dropping median-prices pretty much all over Cali (especially San Diego, S.B. and S.F.), is there a way to short real-estate properties?

It's even harder to track now that M3 is hidden. No doubt a move to gain leverage on our foreign trading partners by hiding the increasing worthlessness of the dollar as we continue to print out billions and billions backed by nothing of value. The Fed is printing more money not keeping pace...

There's a difference between ownership and management. Yes, government management structures are inefficient due to the large numbers of procedures and checks & balances. That's fine and the Fed effective IS government-regulated in that its officers are government-appointed. It moves in small...

heh, heh.. "normal" is relative, eh? I know chics who can drink me under the table and still get up and function perfectly fine the next day. :)

Exactly! That article has a reversed cause & effect relationship. It's not the music that causes sexual behavior, teenagers who are sexually promiscuous PICKS that kind of music. It all comes down to upbringing and a lot of parents nowadays refuse to take responsibility for raising their kids...

1. She does know how to party. 2. She has a successful clothing/accessory business. 3. She has a better ratio of people who love vs. hate her compared to say... Britney. Probably related to how: 4. People are willing to pay her $1mil just for appearances. 5. She's abstaining from...

Really? Could be bad font file. But most likely, you have to run the display at the screen's native resolution. If the panel has 1280x1024 resolution, you have to set Windows to that exact same setting as well. Then there's no interpolation needed between pixels.

I prefer AVG to NAV, runs much quicker, takes up much, much memory when loaded and doesn't slow down your computer hardly at all. As for Ghost, are you using it for backups? I'd prefer a dedicated hardware solution like RAID-1 mirroring. Plenty of IDE/SATA cards that'll do that with a spare...

I wouldn't bother with figuring out whether it's legal or not, just piggyback on their scheme and profit from it. I'd buy a tonne of straddles around the current market-price and sell a tonne of OTM credit-spreads... :)

Neither to the first two questions and very honest on the final one. That's because I remove all interpretation and subjective judgement from my discussions. It typically goes like this: 1. I do this "XYZ" thing when the market does this "ABC" action. 2. These actions gives me results...

I don't have any issues with the concept of centralized banks. I just think they should be government institutions rather than privately owned. A large portion of the US debt is to pay interest to the Fed in order to use our OWN money!