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    Bartiromo's private flight with Thomson cost Citigroup $50k?

    For a moment there, I thought you said she was "going commando" on the air... My mistake. (What with sweeps coming.)
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    Best way to destroy a hard drive?

    Now that you are under surveillance, mate, they will still covertly follow you to the dumpster -- whether 5km or 50km away -- retrieve the supposedly destroyed drive and manage to extract more than enough incriminating evidence from it... drilled holes, hammer, kitty logs, ammonia and all. The...
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    Is $5,000 enough to get started with trading?

    This is a perennial problem on ET -- newbies setting their sights too damn low. In case you're still around here after 2 years, making as little as 2.5-5%/day is so 1999. Dude, where's your ambition? :p
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    GBP/USD trading

    1.9590 is not below the weekly opening range. In addition, that stop is too close, as cable goes, to a round figure.
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    DELL 30" Ultra Sharp

    I'd set your 30" to the native 2560x1600 (as mschey already mentioned), if I were you, and leave it there unless there's some incredibly compelling reason not to. Right now, at 1920x1080, you're using only 50% of its optimal resolution and total screen RE. (Besides, your aspect ratio is off...
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    1% a day consistently: possible?

    Accepting your invitation to verify... :) Your formula for CAGR is incorrect. You don't divide by the number of years N. You raise the relative change in asset value to the power 1/N and subtract 1. Just google CAGR. For example, a 10-fold increase over 10 years isn't 100% CAGR; it's...
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    weekend quotes

    If you are thinking of arbing that one source for instant risk-free profit, go ahead and do it... if you can. With the sole, well known exception of Oanda, there are no retail forex brokers open for trading on weekends, to the best of my knowledge. (I'd love to be proven wrong on this.)...
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    My simple, yet profitable trading strategy

    Interesting. Why do you believe that reducing the quantity bought across the board would turn positive expectancy into negative?
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    Trading and Dating

    If the date is over by 6:50 pm -- hey, nothing impresses the ladies like the early bird special at the drive-through joint -- I'd say odds are ever so slightly against the gentleman getting any tonight, Tokyo or not. :p
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    FX Solutions Rollover Policy Offers Only Problems

    How dare their clients stick it to a bu... broker like that! Poor FXSol... my heart goes out to them. :D
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    Yes, of course.
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    what traders are looking for?

    lind27, read: 1. Jack Schwager, Market Wizards, the last chapter "Wizard Lessons", pp. 298-327 (65 "elements of successful trading and investing"). 2. Jack Schwager, The New Market Wizards, part VIII "Closing Bell", chapter "Market Wiz(ar)dom", pp. 173-180 (42 "observations regarding...
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    What is the Best FX Broker?

    That's exactly right. Spot on. One minor thing -- what you call a "lot" is usually called a "mini-lot", or 10,000 units. For those, presumably very few, already proven profitable traders who work with multiple, positive expectancy, weakly correlated pairs, strategies or time frames, 200:1...
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    IB accrued interest

    This question cannot be answered without additionally specifying both the size and price of each position. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/interest.php Pick your size and price, convert the base currency into the counter / quote currency, then look up the long and short...
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    Is This Guy Going to Die Running the Marathon??

    My initial reaction exactly. Then I thought... nah, he squeezes in under the Mobility Impaired Program, of course. :p "The qualifying time is 6:00 hours for individuals who, because of the nature of their disability, have difficulty ambulating." (No offense meant to anyone reading this...
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    Announcements forum content

    Posted definition: "A forum for Elite Trader Sponsors to announce new events, products, and services. Do not start a new thread in this forum unless you represent one of our sponsors." Is there a way to automate that restriction, at the time of attempted posting...
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    Should name droping be allowed?

    Generally, I would completely agree. However, in this case, if you read that post in its entirety, you'll see that it was a business phone number at the inn: According to the facts as they were outlined by austinp, the ticket holder had made a conscious choice to seek publicity, as part of...
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    Citadel caper - an anticlimactic resolution

    One-Man Assault on Citadel Ends in Quiet Retreat January 22, 2007, 11:05 am An unusual lawsuit involving a secretive hedge-fund chief has come to a fittingly enigmatic finale. Last June, a Florida man claiming to be the mentor of Kenneth C. Griffin accused him of defrauding him and...
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    Currenex, HotSpotFxi, Lava - Pimps for the Banks? - No Scalpers

    State Street to buy Currenex for $564 mln Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:44am ET NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - State Street Corp. (STT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), one of the world's largest custody banks for institutional investors, said on Monday it will buy Currenex Inc. for $564 million in cash to...
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    Wall Street Warriors

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79141 :)
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