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    Lord Stern: 'People should give up eating meat to halt climate change'

    And you are a low grade political propagandist, interested only in pushing you extremist right wing notions. I'm not interested in propaganda videos - show the peer reviewed scientific publications of the deniers. Betcha you can't. Which really says a lot. Your pet web site is run by a...
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    Lord Stern: 'People should give up eating meat to halt climate change'

    NASA animated map of the world showing temperature anomalies since 1880. Pretty much tells the story: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/animations/a10_1881_1998_6fps.mp4 And the home page for NASA GISS temperature data: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
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    Lord Stern: 'People should give up eating meat to halt climate change'

    You are, to put it bluntly, an idiot. The first chart is not even a chart of temperature. Read the Y axis label. It says Z-Score. A Z-score of what? The second chart conveniently ignores anything before 1960. So what if some earlier prediction was inaccurate. Science advances and a lot more...
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    Michael Moore Kills Capitalism With Kool-Aid

    Ridiculous rubbish.
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    Nikkei gaps....

    Huh ? What gap up today?
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    No Country For Old Men

    The thing that should really raise eye brows is that it should be perfectly possible to develop semi-automated systems to monitor this sort of behavior. All this is hardly new. Why then, is such monitoring not done on a routine basis?
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    What are your favorite trading platform features?

    That is just so much rubbish. I have my own software (Java based) that uses IB API. I hadn't updated the API for a long time (more than a year). A couple of days ago, I downloaded latest API. It took me all of half an hour to make a couple of minor code changes, and I was up and running. You...
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    http://picasaweb.google.com/cschlaeger/JapanLinuxSymposium#5395358413061926434
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    Hmmm, USB sticks are not very fast. The wikipedia entry must be mad to claim 100 times improvement. You'll be lucky get 30 Mbytes/Sec over USB. Compare that to 80 MByte/Sec ++ for modern hard drives via SATA II. It might be useful for random access to small files, but for for sustained...
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    Win 7 64 bit first impressions

    You will still have a significant advantage even for 32 bit software as any given program can use up to full 4Gb. That 4Gb of memory is not being eaten up by the operating system, buffers etc and other programs. More memory will often help system performance overall even if an individual...
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    Failed to query for ES index historical data

    If you want ES futures data, you need to specify: contract.secType = 'FUT';
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    Need Java recommendation

    One other reminder for anybody new to Swing. Anything that causes Swing components to be (re)painted should be done from the AWT event thread. You may or may not have problems if you don't observe this discipline. See SwingUtilities.InvokeLater () or SwingUtilities.InvokeAndWait ()
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    Need Java recommendation

    Here is a somewhat old but do doubt still relevant article on optimizing JTable performance for "real time" apps: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/ChristmasTree/
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    Need Java recommendation

    As I pointed out above, it's not the table or the grid, it's the cell renderer(s) that need to be optimized if the default one isn't quick enough. They are where all the work is done. Though on a modern machine with a decent graphics card, out of the box may well work fast enough and it makes...
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    Reality based coin-tosser method that beats 95% of traders in the world.

    I'm not here to deliver a packaged trading system for you. And in any case, exit rules need to adaptive. No it's not easy - it's damned difficult. For example, todays reaction to earnings and housing - what to infer from that? Just because it can't be packaged easily doesn't mean it's not...
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    Reality based coin-tosser method that beats 95% of traders in the world.

    Here is the sort of thing I mean, illustrated in the attached chart which is an unweighted index of 13 stocks from my watchlist of shorts selected a week ago. When the broad market is overbought(ish) you have to ask yourself where are these stocks going to go when the broad market has a bad...
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    Reality based coin-tosser method that beats 95% of traders in the world.

    No it's not a belief of mine - it's bloody common sense. Over the fairly long term, a majority of market participants have gained through holding stocks or mutual funds or pension funds. Why? Because equity markets have exhibited a tendency to go up over the long term and those market...
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    Reality based coin-tosser method that beats 95% of traders in the world.

    Why? And why do you seem to think that flipping coins or generating random numbers is any sort starting point for making money from financial markets? Does it aid understanding? Can't see how. Do scientists studying physical phenomena start with randomness? I don't think so. They may use...
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    Need Java recommendation

    JTable performance depends almost entirely on your table cell renderer which is by default a JLabel. You can improve performance by fiddling around with the cell renderer. I don't have any performance issues with a JTable of 100 or more high volume stocks (inc SPY, QQQQ etc) showing bid...
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    Need Java recommendation

    It seems we are all in agreement. Must be a first on ET.
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