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    what the hell is scalping

    I'm trying to figure this out: one ***ch*bag, YT, says he has a very simple method for making tons of money in illiquid markets, another ***ch*bag says YT is NTing and yet another ***ch*bag comes along and says he tried it but cannot make any money but the method is great and YT is making tons...
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    Sick article on Derivatives......

    What about reserve requirements when doing something like that? I don't see the problem in this case. If the mortgage based secutiry loses its value then the bank owes less or nothing to the issuer and it still makes interest on the loans.
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    IMF On The Brink of Running Out of Cash; Repeats Risk Of Great Depression

    The only thing IMF has accomplished so far is to finance corruption around the world. It's a good opportunity to close it down for good. People you want money, work for it...
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    Using Larry Williams Money Management formula in FX

    $20,000 x 1%/$60 = 3.33 , not $3.33
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    Alan Greenspan: "The Fed Didn't Cause the Housing Bubble"

    Green flying elephants caused it, not the FEd, they control interest rates.
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    Pattern trading

    I tried the demo with tick data and I wasn't able to get any promising patterns. I will try it with 3 minute bars and if I get something I will let you know. Thank my super fact computer:)
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    What's a good "spread" for Forex? Here's a pic of OEC's

    Anyone ever had problems with IB currency conversions? I think whatever you save from low spreads you lose when you convert it back to base currency using their conversion rates.
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    More people will become traders since they were laid off?

    Trading gives the illusion that you are doing something when the only thing you are actually doing 95% of the time is transferring your money to others.
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    Why favorable R:R?

    I have no idea where he fiinds the time to post all this non-sense. Maybe he is trying to prove something to himself because most traders don't give a sh*t about expectancy and how it is calculated. This expectancy number changes every time you trade, 10:00 AM it is positive, then if you lose...
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    Why Gold has to go down...

    Is that a promise? Should I follow your analysis and go short GC or GLD? Tell me fast, I'm eager to pull the trigger mate...
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    Why favorable R:R?

    You can make money this way but you must trade very frequently and this exposes you other risks, like systemic and unsystemic risks. Unsystemic risk can be diversified and in this case you limit your returns Systemic risk is nondiversifiable. If the risk to reward ratio is irrelevant as...
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    EasyLanguage question

    Is this program worth its money? Jim
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    Best software?

    I'm looking for one with intelligent routing to minimize fees. Any suggestions?
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    Best software?

    (A) RT charting (B) Strategy Development & testing (C) Portfolio testing and management (D) Data gathering and manipulation (E) Neural net/forecasting (F) Scanner RT/EOD (G) Accounting and tax
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    Most frequently used technical indicators

    RSI, MA, EMA, MACD, BB
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    Krugman on wage increase

    Can someone explain Krugman's argument that "there’s no adverse effect at all of the wage increase on output"? http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/nominal_wage.pdf Krugman says that: "Now suppose that the evil New Deal pushes up nominal wages. This shifts the AS curve up, which leads...
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    APS- Automatic Pattern Search

    He has been pushing that product very hard: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1975242#post1975242 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1851393#post1851393 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1818918#post1818918...
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    Most popular trading instruments

    ES, QQQQ, SPY
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    Where to put savings

    Buy land in places with low depreciation
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