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Holy crap, I didn't even know about libgretl! That is freaking amazing. I'd hug you if you were here next to me (in friendly manner non-suggestive of any underlying sexual motives, of course.) I've been lurking on this forum for some time, and when someone asked a similar question a while...

Has anyone experimented with their stuff? As an example, say I'm fitting an ARMA model and I'm trying to assess which fit works better than others, but I want to do a bruteforce n^2 (i.e., p from 1 to n, q from 1 to n) fit until I get a decent model and I want to parallelize this, ... how would...

This is the plan, I think. 5 years.

I am already profitable. That's not my problem. It's just that my salary is higher than what I would make independently, but also that my job conflicts with my ability to scale. I cannot manage more risk than I am taking on now because of other obligations. My approach has been to quietly...

I have several linux systems I would like to dedicate to trading. Right now, I am running my trading platform in a virtual machine inside the various linux systems. I was wondering if there were any brokers who specifically design platforms for Linux, where I can integrate software I have...

In my state, it turns out there is a plan for people who are uninsurable. The monthly premium is $750/month. So, if I continue to live in this state, I should be budgeting in about a thousand dollars a month for 3 years or so. So, say, 48k set aside for healthcare. Am thinking I should...

Have you tried? I will actually do what you're saying, just to get some quotes.

Got good health insurance at work, have no plans to leave in the short-run. I'm just curious if any of you have left your day job with high health cost overhead to trade independently. How should I incorporate those costs into my business plan, and should I allocate maybe 2-3 years of savings...

I once had an interview with a huge bank where they had a form that asked me what my desired salary was. I put 1 mil a year, because that's what I really desired. The HR guy thought I was a nutcase, but they made an offer to me anyway. Competence is what counts. (Incidentally, they...

I think it will. There are so many poor people who think other people have so much money, they will go for it.

I moved here from NYC, and didn't realize the prices were so different. So I was ecstatic when I found out I could live in a luxury building for the same money I was paying in NY. Since my salary went up, I decided to stick with the current rent level for the first year. It's not bad, view of...

This is the biggest factor for me. Currently paying $2200/mo. Figured this'd be fine for one year while I got settled in, but I have no interest in staying here as a renter at this price for much longer. Looks like I need to go fishing in the foreclosed home markets.

hehe, I wasn't trying to be mean or anything, just seems like you have a good thing going and crowd participation is fun. Would be easier to follow you and keep track of you on an RSS feed without cluttering my ET inbox. How about it?

Got any recommendations for this? This is what I'm after, really. Something very, very reliable.

How much lower do you think the median will go? Another 50k? http://www.housingtracker.net/asking-prices/chicago-illinois/, median is currently 229k. The jobs situation here is really bad. A lot of recent grads I know are fighting for retail sales and fast food positions just to cover...

Anyone have an opinion on this? Will I not save any real money on account of historical data fees if I go with option 1?

Time for a Lescor-FAQ.

I was looking at Case-Schiller data and noticed that the prices bounced off of a long-term trend line that's the average growth. So there was this exponential spike and an exponential crash. Question I have is: Because of all the ARM resets coming up, will Chicago prices drop further? How...

adamm2: Have you considered getting a blog? Maybe on blogspot?

I donated $10 through that text-message thing, but I agree with the poster about our government just giving away money like that. We are in no position to be giving away money when our country is in shambles. I gave away the $10 -because- I believe in private giving, not the government...