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The reason why some people treat others rudely has nothing to do with whether they are profitable. It has everything to do with how they were treated, back when they were in diapers. To see this--assuming you are not one of the numerous jerks frequenting these boards--ask yourself: Do I...

I use IB. But I think zecco.com has free stock trades if you have $25K in your account.

Last year, 18%. This year, so far 13% annualized. My backtesting indicates that 15% is going to be about average. As you might expect, about half of trades are losers. Winners are much larger than losers. Average holding period is about 3 months. I backtested several MAs and decided...

You can essentially ignore the first half of the book that is about Yale and Harvard. His technique is to divide $ into five equal sized bets: US stock, foreign stock, real estate, commodities, bonds. Using the 200 day (or the 40 week) moving average, at all times you would be either in...

I see clockwise, but... I am about as left-brained as it gets. What gives?

average 10-11% with low volatility http://www.amazon.com/Ivy-Portfolio-Invest-Endowments-Markets/dp/0470284897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284158732&sr=8-1

I have belonged to many trading groups over the years. There are two types: you either invest together or you just discuss investments together. It is not clear to me from your question which you mean. If you are investing together, I agree with above poster who stated that it is almost...

At the present time, in developed societies, the most common cause of death is cardiovascular disease. Tufts is pretty big in these longevity studies. People who live into their 100's tend to have an excellent natural cholesterol profile. They have a lot of high density lipoprotein (HDL, i.e...

I was wondering about unemployment today on my way home. Most of this thread has concentrated on the low end of the wage scale--but what about the higher wage jobs? There are many, many Asians (India, China, etc.) employed here legally who do technical jobs. All employers of technically...

I bought a set of Oneida flatware the other day. Probably you can guess where it was made. What do they actually do in Oneida, NY now?

Still long.....but have a few puts now.

I guess I am skeptical. First, if his computer can find these inefficiencies, wouldn't it be just as easy to program another computer to exploit them at the same time, as opposed to telling you what they are? Second, he is the "senior market analyst" at IB. I can only imagine which...

One can always make a list of reasons to have a crash, or a rally. They mean nothing. We just have to trade what is.

Yes, but 4G is spotty. However, the Sprint 4G cards have 3G capability also. No problem trading with that, even with two accounts up at once. I have been able to get coverage everywhere I have tried so far with Spring 3G, including a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Excellent point. You can squeeze a bit more out by selling calls against them. Make sure the calls are out of the money, maybe delta around 30-40% is a good spot.

Yes, or hedge with cheap VXX calls out of the money.

Probably I should qualify this first by saying I'm not a day trader. You left out one step: keep doing it it over and over again, which you can do if you have a tight initial stop. What happens to people is that they go through a period of non-trendiness, they get whipsawed a lot, and...

Yes, it has been a hard year to make money--at least so far--for us trend types. Now that people are writing about astrology, the ultimate in desperation, it damn well must be the bottom of the market.

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Right now the impediments to living longer (at least in industrialized societies) are cardiovascular disease and cancer. Now suppose we could fix those things--a big "if." Then, new impediments would appear. Thinking back, 150 years ago, cardiovascular causes were a much rarer cause of...