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    Lets talk drummers

    Neil Peart and..... Mike "Dr. Octopus" Portnoy. Probably the most talented drummer today. Portnoy is not Peartish. That would be like calling Satriani a "Malmsteen clone"... But, like Satch and Yngwie they are both at the top of the food chain in technique and talent. Mike's...
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    End of forex brokers CME & Reuters join forces

    This is huge, hope they implement this platform ASAP. At the very least, it would produce the "official" forex quotes database. Current databases like tullet, whatever, have too much noise and there is no way to figure "referential quotes" from actual trades. It will increase FX trading...
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    Lay, Skilling found guilty...

    Wavestrider I agree. Even if Lay and Skilling had no idea the "financial engineering" transactions were fraudulent, they are still guilty. If I perform "emergency" open heart surgery with my kitchen knives on my neighbor, even though I am not even a paramedic, then I am guilty of fraud...
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    How to get a Platinum American Express Credit Card for Free?

    I receive those platinum offers like twice a year. I don't like the $400 fee either. I have only a couple debit/check-cards and the classic Amex the one that has to be paid in full each month. There was a survey couple of years ago on the WSJ, I think it was private banking clients with more...
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    CME/CBOT shld be shat upon...

    They can extract information from program traders and scalping/market making firms: who has huge limit orders, who's selling/buying huge at market. Small and position traders are not affected at all. They might just see your order once in a while but they don't know if you're closing or opening...
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    SIFs may trade very strangely today

    index futures behave weird almost every day LOL
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    Moving into an apartment as a trader...

    I had a card that I didn't use, I forget the company. Never bought a thing with that card. The credit card company didn't like they were not making any money from me so they slapped me a monthly maintenance fee. I never opened the bills, so three months later I had three months due in fees...
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    Medicine or Wall Street?

    Dude you can make big bucks in medicine, just become a plastic surgeon a.k.a. tit doctor, and move to some area with lots of beauty-obsessed boob-size-freak chicks, like Beverly Hills for example.
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    let's talk about real coinage

    I think Ricardo Montalban already has the rights for this idea. along with Tattoo....
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    Best Car for Newly Hired Trader

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 +10dB | BRAIN-O-METER 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 +10dB ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SUCKER-O-METER
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    Maria Bartiromo, how did she get the special info from BSB?

    I think everyones misunderstanding B.S. Ber-donkey AGAINNN!!! You guys ever hang with high-falluting ivy league econ profs... Theyre always whining... oh journalists never get the point... stupid grad students.... retarded MBAs blah blah we are all so smart and everyone else is so stupid...
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    favorite guitar solos

    Malmsteen is the greatest electrical guitarist in the history of mankind. He plays with super-human virtuosity as well as deep passion and feeling. I can understand why so many people find Yngwie annoying. Todays music has predominantly an out-of-tune muddled and drab sound, so Yngwie's...
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    Rogers Commodity Index: Where to Trade It ?

    AFAIK you need an account with Merrill Lynch
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    which country has favorable tax treaty with U.S.?

    With a US broker there is no way to avoid withholding interest, dividend taxes, but you can get them back filing for taxes from your offshore location and asking for a refund. Tax treaty means the IRS will send your info to your home country's tax authorities. Go to an offshore broker if you...
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    Living on a boat and avoiding taxes

    No need to escape anywhere, you can do it in the US as long as you know how to cover your a**. You need good lawyers and someone friendly at the SEC though.
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    Living on a boat and avoiding taxes

    No need to get rid of American passport. 1) Get physical address at tax haven. 2) Get offshore bank account with mexican passport and offshore address. 3) Open US brokerage account with mexican passport, offshore address and bank account. Don't use ssn or anything traceable by the IRS (US...
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    Jim Simons

    Gold diggers can drive you crazy and ruin your life.
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    Free-market "failures" and South American socialism

    I agree with futures shark, basically "free marketers" in south america historically have been a bunch of crooks trying to get a license to financially rape the population, and then using their political clout to get bailouts from the government when the market punishes them for their ineptitude...
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    Futures from 6-midnight central time?

    Japan 6-12 CST with a break from 8 to 9:30 CST
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    ER2 has topped?

    Party over
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