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I used to be big into Insider Trading, but I've been forced to discard that completely for...legal reasons. Now, when two Moving Averages cross, I put a pack of cigarettes on the weight bench and hope Jimmy the One-Eyed MarketMaker doesn't give me too much slippage. Wait, that didn't come...

The secret to trading while drunk is simple - practice. Lots of practice. Not enough people stick with it when the initial losses start pouring in. Like anything worthwhile in life, you gotta be in it for the long haul, through the ups and the downs, the highs and the lows, the trips to the bar...

I don't think 90% of traders actually fail... I think that Victor Niederhoffer just screwed up the Bell Curve!!

How about ALL OF THE ABOVE! :D They've all worked for me, and they've all NOT worked for me. Using whatever the situation calls for is best of course, but not knowing exactly what the situation calls for is the part that seems to keep everybody down. :p I tend to be a "Buy Weakness" kind...

...is to get George Soros on my team. :p

I try to avoid Windows whenever possible, so I'm a bit rusty, but I believe the part about the Registry Key being missing shows that your install probably didn't work correctly. Usually stuff gets entered into the Registry automagically on a good install. Make sure your program runs on your...

Thanks Madison. Nice to know there's one other like me out there. :)

The hand grenade article mentioned above says things like "a suspicious item was found in his luggage", and "it appears to be a live grenade". Why don't they just come out and say it's a grenade if it's a grenade? They're writing it as if it is, without actually saying it. 95% chance it's...

I'm starting to see the media frenzy as a real-life version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". I mean, we were supposed to have attacks on July 4th, Hallowe'en, Christmas, NewYears, Ramadan and other Muslim holy days, etc. Every holiday since 9-11 has been marred by fear propagated by FBI warnings...

ArchAngel, Okay, we can agree to disagree. I fully see your point that it's not prudent to spend money on something that is not a sure thing or immediately profitable. From a vendors point of view, that is absolutely correct. From a users point of view, though, more choice is better, right...

ArchAngel, I agree that caution is good sometimes - "Look before you leap". But they also say, "He who hesitates is lost". And I think it would take a month or less for a company to thoroughly research the strengths and weaknesses of Linux and come up with a conclusive decision as to whether...

True, there may be fewer desktops running Linux than the Mac now, but Linux is also growing very quickly, faster by far than Apple, who's constrained by the need to buy new hardware to run MacOSX (which is also a fine OS), as well as a license that prohibits massive growth rather than encourages...

I've gotten a few mainstream apps running under RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf) with Wine (www.winehq.org), and there are a few native apps for Gnu/Linux, such as the very free little Eiffel-MAS (http://eiffel-mas.sourceforge.net/), but I'm not sure about the availability of good commercial grade apps yet...

I'd like to get my hands on some Carlyle shares! But they're privately owned. :( It is a *sure thing* like there has never been in history. Whether or not you believe Dubya is favorably biased toward his own father (and thus his own inheritance), every move George W. has made for the last...

What you want is BeeSoft's ProTA Gold, similar in functionality to MetaStock and Tradestation. I sent them an email, they said the OS X version is entering beta testing this month and should probably be released commercially first quarter 2003. http://www.beesoft.net/ It seems to be a...