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    Cars and sub prime mortgages

    I wonder how to learn the quality of car loans. I suspect if there are lots of sub prime mortgages then there are also lots of sub prime car loans.
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    Whipsaw Song

    I like it.
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    Highest inflation in the world 2006

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/129010?GT1=43002 Zimbabwe's new 10 million dollar bill is red. One side has the official stamps of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and some meaningless serial numbers. The other is a pastiche of a fish jumping out of a lake and a giant dam in the background. The bill...
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    Goldman Sacks has 50% downside

    All stocks have a 100 % downside at all times.
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    Did anyone have a volatility spread on BSC?

    Did anyone have a volatility position on BSC?
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    Congratulate me! Or not...

    Is that before or after you found the calculation error?
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    majority traders really lose money??

    Making and losing money are personal judgments. For example, suppose my account shows a 5 % loss for the month, a 10 % loss for the year, and a 20 % gain for the past two years. Am I profitable?
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    majority traders really lose money??

    Hey you're back! I enjoy reading your posts.
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    Stochastics

    You might buy when the stochastic value is greater than 50 and sell when the stochastic value is less that 50. The stochastic formula used in this way is trend following. Or buy above 80, sell below 20. You might explore different values and time constants, discover what combinations test...
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    Bottom Fishing is a Fools Game.

    I remember reading a book written by J. Paul Getty yesterday. J. Paul Getty was Forbes Magazine's richest man in the world about year 1962. In the chapter on investing Mr. Getty describes a bottom fishing investing approach that reminds me of Warren Buffet's bottom picking approach and Benjamin...
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    Spitzer's hooker revealed

    Eliott Spitzer should run for President. He has all the necessary qualifications.
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    What do you think of Ashley's music?

    Ashley Alexandra Dupre http://amiestreet.com/ashleyalexandradupre http://amiestreet.com/player.php?playlist_url=http://amiestreet.com/listSongs.php?fetchPlaylist/artistId__13321/sortBy__Song.recs/order__DESC/&autoplay=true What we want Move ya body === I think her music is...
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    Do sectors behave differently than one another?

    I find different sectors sometimes show different price behavior.
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    When buying on pullback goes bad

    Some trades are losers. It can not be avoided. I don't know of any method that wins 100 % of the time. I just stop the loss and get out.
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    Fidelity Faulted in Gifts Probe

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5596477.html March 5, 2008, 10:08PM Lynch Faulted in Fidelity Gifts Probe By MARK JEWELL AP Business Writer © 2008 The Associated Press BOSTON — Federal regulators on Wednesday fined Fidelity Investments $8 million and brought civil...
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    DJIA 100 years from now

    2 January 2008 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closes at 13043 (omitting decimals). I calculate that the annual growth rate for the DJIA from 13 December 1956 to 13 December 2006 (50 years) is 6.66 %. If I calculate 6.66 % growth for the next hundred years then the DJIA value is...
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    Buffett interview

    I like these parts: Richard Branson is a marketing genius. He came in with Virgin Cola, we’re not sure what the name means, perhaps it turns you back into one What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn’t buy the ones with the highest IQ...
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    Preferred Securities

    http://www.quantumonline.com/ has information about preferred stocks.
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    How to Trade Bollinger Bands

    This is what I have: Trend following system: Simulated trading using 30 years IBM stock daily closing price data, $ 100000 initial capital and 5 % risk. This method buys if closing price value is greater than the 60 day moving average value plus 2 standard deviations and sells if closing...
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    Share your wisdom!

    You might use trading simulation software to study various methods and choices of risk levels.
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