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    Anyone use Open Office ?

    I used OpenOffice in the past with no problems. Currently using MS Office 2007, in no small part due to the 1M rows / 16K columns thing. Been waiting forever for this. Overnight Excel has gone from being of limited value for intraday work (with 64K rows) to being able to hold nearly 3 years...
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    rosie

    Wanna tell you a story 'Bout a woman I know When it comes to lovin' Oh, she steals the show She ain't exactly pretty She ain't exaclty small 42-39-56 You could say she's got it ALL Never had a woman, never had a woman like you Doin' all the things, doin' all the things you do Ain't...
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    I Hope This Puts DeBeers (Diamond Monopoly) Out of Business

    Good luck with that. Hope you've got a comfy couch.
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    I Hope This Puts DeBeers (Diamond Monopoly) Out of Business

    In fact, a DeBeers industrial diamonds sub was indicted in the US for exactly that in 1994. The case did not go to trial, but was settled out of court with the DOJ for a whopping (not) $10M in 2004, 10 (!) years later. And you thought the NFA, CFTC and SEC were known for slo-mo slaps on the...
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    US or London hours?

    London hours offer much better intraday trading opportunities, at least for my setups. Especially if you're focused on sterling-dollar and crosses. In terms of share of the turnover, London is, of course, comfortably ahead of both New York and Tokyo, although that's really not important to...
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    Oanda connection problems...

    Well, as you can see from the last sentence of my previous post, I assumed nothing regarding when or even whether they will scrape together enough capital to leave for greener pastures (read: a platform actually suitable for news trading). Having said that, news trading at Oanda is...
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    Oanda connection problems...

    Not here, but you can probably thank Felix and his legions of subscribers, flocking to Oanda's predictable news-widened-spread yet still slippage-free business model. Those who don't trade the news on that platform are affected as well, at times. The question is, will the platform's...
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    Profitable Ideas on Carry Trades

    Viper, the woodgrained van world is no more... wtg, ES!
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    Can anyone help me with this

    I am no expert either, but I would not try to recover any deleted files first... not an easy task at all for someone who admits to be computer-illiterate. PS69371, your best bet would be to use a freeware program, like the ones mentioned above, to overwrite all unused sectors of your hard...
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    I want to learn the basics

    The OP's imaginary online persona is still a work in progress, as I'd previously pointed out a couple of times. Please let's all be patient.
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    carry trade

    All that work for 3% APR?! Try going long USD/JPY at an online forex dealer instead. Or another ---/JPY pair like NZD or AUD. Preferably with leverage. The more the better. Japanese housewives do it all the time, you know. Can't go wrong.
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    Warning MB TRADING filled my limit order wrong plce

    manz66, while you're doing your homework on order types, try hand-writing the following 3 lines, in that specific order -- or maybe even drawing a diagram -- on a sticky (rather than stickup) note and tape it to your monitor or wherever you tape important stuff: Buy Stop (Limit) | Sell Limit...
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    Warning MB TRADING filled my limit order wrong plce

    Yes. However, when it comes to available order types, there is a key difference between full-spectrum brokers like MBT and many retail forex brokers, as mentioned above: I'd bet that's where manz66's misunderstanding originates.
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    Warning MB TRADING filled my limit order wrong plce

    You placed a Sell Limit order @1.9970 at 9:26:01, when the bid was apparently at 1.9984. You were instantaneously filled at the bid @1.9984, also at 9:26:01. That's the definition of price improvement. Where price was going (eventually) or where price bottomed out are both irrelevant to...
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    I'm going to become an analyst

    What if your mother-in-law is hot and about your age?
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    Question about quants

    "It" is anything but random.
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    Question about quants

    The difference between coming up with a robust trading model or methodology, and launching, funding and managing an ongoing, structured OPM trading business based on that model is kind of like... the difference between knowing how to swim and finishing the Ironman Triathlon. In each case, the...
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    Everyone-check this out about a trader

    OMX AB promo.
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    big lcd

    Sweet. Can an LCD really offer "178-degree viewing angle" or is that just marketing speak? I can't even imagine a piece of paper with a 178&#176 v.a.
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    Profinum closed, why?

    That's the one. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81035 Who would have guessed that zero-spread-no-commish business model would not succeed?
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