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    Economics BS degree

    I will give my 2cents. I have learned much much from reading books in a half year timeframe than my 10+ class in econ that took 3 years.
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    Taking 76K to 500K by Year End

    When I first started to trade, I have a good start and set a goal of turning 50k into 250k. The result?? I ended up lost 30k. Why I ended up in red? I will keep telling myself I have to make X amt every week, and tried to make it by over traded and margin too much. Worst of it, when I was in...
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    Housing starts plunge 14.3% to 10-year low

    Couldn't agreed more. I have been looking for a 2 family house in Brooklyn, NY in a decent neighborhood for a while, and I don't see how I can afford it. According to US censor, my wife and I's earning are way about average. Yet, we cannot afford it. Of course, we can buy it and live on bread...
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    Anyone used the penny prices from IB yet?

    did you read? it said it begin on 1/27/2007
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    F up 5% today 10/24/06

    merging two losers will not make a winner. it would be interesting if this does happens.
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    Average Wall St paycheck $300k?

    exactly, if Bill Gates join my family for dinner, my family just become multi-billionaires
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    Stocks and Futures on Schedule C

    You can. If I remember correctly, if you use M2M, you lost the 60/40 tax treatment on futures.
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    PhD in Economics

    My Econ professor told the class, don't go for PhD in econ, just go for MBA. With a MBA from a good school, you can easily land a 6 figures job, with a PhD in econ, you most likely ended up teaching in a university that paying you under 50k.
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    In the year 2020, which corporation will have the highest market cap. in the world?

    I think Banking and Fund will take over the world something. Everything go around and come around banking in the financial markets. Banking and Finance sector represent a big portion of S&P500, and have been growth so much since the 1970.
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    Whats is your YTD % return?

    same boat. i had the worst losing streak last month. 7 consecutive losses.
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    I Need a Forex Options Broker

    i think most options brokers will have option on globex. they should give u the same leverage as forex.
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    What's the easiest way to get last price of a list of stock to a txt of xls file?

    Yes, I did that over while I was free at work. Thanks again.
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    What's the easiest way to get last price of a list of stock to a txt of xls file?

    thanks. but I have a big list, and it will take a long time for me to use this method. is there a script or simple program that will do the trick? thanks.
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    What's the easiest way to get last price of a list of stock to a txt of xls file?

    What is the easiest way to get the last price ofa list of stock into Excel or Text file? Thanks
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Yeap. The newly build condo on my block went from "for sales" to "for rent". The for sales sign was up for like 6 to 9 months, then changed to for rent, which is up for almost 6 months. Guess it's going nowhere.
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    7.4 Billion in No-Bid Katrina contracts

    Same thing happened in Iraq, award no bid contract to friends and supporter from the Bush Administration.
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    the imposition of tariffs and quotas on Chinese goods. Good or bad?

    Well, too bad they are the one with the money, and could get the politian to do what's "best for america"
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    How's real estate market in your area?

    NYC and other similar cities is consider a different type of specy. They have 1 unique problem that the rest of the country doesn't have to face: illegal immigrants. Have you see there are like 10 to 20 people sharing 1 small room? How they do that? They have 3 to 4 shifts a day.
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    Newbie here, need some advice/thoughts

    I guess you missed this line from his post "for example, at like 1.02 a share and turn around a couple hours later and sell it at 1.46" He wants over 40% ROI in a few hours. If I can do that consisitently yearly or monthly basic, I can own the whole world before I die.
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    1GB vs 2 GB RAM

    I updated from 1 gig to 3 gig for my XP box, and it makes no improvement. So just stick to 1 gigs.
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