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Since when do you need rationality for a trend? Complete rationality does not exist in humans, anyway, except in the mentally deficient. See Taleb's book. --opm8

I love this. Took me about 5 minutes or so. I got serious about it when I read that someone picked it up after six throws or so. I haven't yet figured out how the name of the game is significant, though. --opm8

I vote Portland (since I live here :) ). A Saturday/Sunday is usually fine, Sunday preferrably. --opm8

I'm in Portland and I'd be up for it. We had a traders meeting a couple of years ago where mostly beginner systems traders showed up. Most were into stocks and only a couple of guys (me and Jayford being the only ones, I think) doing futures. What do you trade, hangseng? --opm8

This is interesting. One level up from "Clerk, teller, Walmart" is police officer, who's grouped in with "machinist" and "sales." Something to think about next time you're pulled over. Don't use any big words. --opm8

For what it's worth, I've owned a GEM 19" CRT monitor (note: not an LCD) for about 3 years now and the quality's been great. I don't have a single complaint. In fact I wanted to buy two more but they don't make this particular model anymore so I had to buy another brand. --opm8

acrary, Are your systems entering orders themselves or do they require someone to do it? I'm working on my own system and obviously, automated order entry is a big step in terms of "letting go." Do you see a benefit to one way or the other? --opm8

Thanks for the help def and eutrader2. IB emailed me back (within an hour of my midnight email!) saying essentially the same thing. --opm8

eutrader2, Do you know a US broker that offers this? I use IB and couldn't find anything more than the contract specifications so I emailed them asking about it. Esignal has the quotes so that's putting me half way to trading the "open" at 5:15 PM. :) --opm8

If you don't find the actual course (I guarantee it's not worth nearly the $3K or whatever they charge now) you can get the gist of it in Linda Raschke's Street Smarts book. --opm8

You'll need to adjust your routing table so that certain IP ranges (your data feed, for instance) go through your modem connection and the rest stays on the cable line. I wrote a perl script to do this to be run after the modem connection has been established. PM me and I'll send it to you...

This Xircom thing isn't all it's cracked up to be. Check out dslreports.com for some excellent opinions of this dual WAN router and some others. Bottom line, none of the "consumer grade" dual WAN routers have a seamless failover, even if they advertise that they do (I'm looking at you...

Hey, local Portlander! Would it be feasible? I wouldn't trust my trading connection to some crappy wireless network. I have one at home and it's up and down sporadically even in line-of-sight range. OK for browsing but garbage for a dependable steady stream of info. Depends on your trading...

Portland, OR. I went Russia --> Austria --> Canada --> US. --opm8

Did anyone mention Croupier? Excellent. Sexy Beast? I love this movie. Ben Kingsley is at his career best as Don in this dark, dark, British movie. The very last quote is my favorite: Gal: This is madness, I've had enough of this "Crime and Punishment" bollocks. I'm happy here. Don: I...

listedguru, Once both monitors are connected you'll be able to change display resolutions in either one. They can have different resolutions without a problem. Right click on your desktop, choose properties, then the "settings" tab. You'll see both monitors, click one and change the...

Global Futures. Excellent customer service, and I've never had a single problem with reliability. gfetc.com --opm8

Kiyosaki is all bull and snake oil. http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html --opm8

Basically what Jay said is true. We introduced ourselves and our style of trading and chatted about that a bit. Unfortunately we didn't get any good discussions going seemingly because of the wide range of experience levels and trading styles. I hope this time will be different. Jay...

Milwaukie, actually but who's counting? I can get together almost any weekend as long as there's a couple of days warning. We had a trader's meeting at the Heathman hotel last year about this time but that didn't really go so great, imo. --opm8