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My grandma opened a dividend reinvestment account for me with Pepsi when I was 8 (~12 years ago). It has been a solid performer. They've managed to raise the dividend payout consistently for the past 15 or so years, even during the shit storm of the past few years. They're rapidly expanding into...

Saw it in IMAX 3d and loved it. I used to believe the future of movies was doomed because there have been so many shitty movies released in the past few years, but now I have hope. It was the first 3d movie I've seen, but the 3d-ness was way awesome.

the worst thread of the year was definitely by traderum trying to "trick the market makers" on the ib demo account.. not even the paper trading account. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=185303

My college's partnership with Microsoft lets us buy Windows 7 for $0. Other free products include: Visual Studio (any edition), all other Microsoft OSes, and most other Microsoft software. $7 for Windows 7 is still a pretty good deal though...

my eventual goal is a degree in petroleum engineering first, followed by a minor in computer science, and then an MBA down the road a couple of years. i'm thinking that'll be a pretty mean combo too. i've always dreamed of doing aerospace engineering as well..

If the grads picked the right major (petroleum engineering), right college, and got good grades throughout, 6 figures is right about where they'll start, with the possibility of up to $30k signing bonus. 100% hiring rates right outta college as well for the last 7 or so years at my school...

hey so ummm.. yeah its the weekend. who are you trading with? oh right, no one.

what? you only have the $500,000 demo account? ib is screwing you over! mine is $1M, see picture.

Love the analogy. increasenow, another place to look is spot fx prices vs futures. again, haven't had time to look into these. take a look at the attachment.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=calculate+volatility

like i said, i never really had the time to get into the details, but i usually tried 2 tf : 1 ym and assumed tf was most volatile. the 2:1 ratio worked pretty well. theoretically you could create any ratio you wanted using index etfs (qqqq, spy, dia, and iwm) because of the finer 1 share...

increasenow, unless you have some reason to spread trade, they often don't do what you expect. my short little experience with spread trading indicies basically came down to this conclusion: on up trending days, buy the higher volatility index and short the lower one, for example buy tf sell...

One more time: you're not fucking trading with anyone! IB's paper trader links together real market data and then from there, it adds all the other paper trader's orders. What you see is the real market + every paper trader's orders. Besides, who the fuck would waste their time being a...

Just a quick picture of the trading range S2007S mentioned.

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People need to stop getting fucking dumb degrees where they'll be making shit after graduating with a boat-load of debt, which will take forever to pay off. Psychology, sociology, history, asian art, the list goes on and on..

No, it's not. The order goes to IB's demo servers, where the order is only seen by other demo users. So I suppose it does go to the exchange, but the exchange in this case is the IB Demo exchange, which isn't similar to the real exchanges at all. If you think you're moving markets (50k...

In that case, you'd also need to look at both the resolution and the accuracy of the meat thermometer. I'd guess that it's not very accurate/readable at room temperatures...

could also be the pressure of shoving a thermometer into an apple "squeezing" the base, thus causing the "mercury" (probably red colored water) to rise.

Cool, thanks guys. I'm not currently trading either of these but it just seemed odd for these two ETFs to be so out of whack.