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    War

    Officially at least, the US has had a trade embargo on Iran since the hostage crisis. Any Iranian oil arriving on US shores is illegal. This is not to say that I believe the embargo is being enforced. There are often huge profits to be made busting sanctions...
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    If Global warming was a fact, what would be the economic and political ramifications?

    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6269 "It appears that nearly all the rise in sea level since Roman times has happened in the past 100 years, and is most likely the result of human activity." "While there is no proof that human activity is to blame, "I can't think of a natural...
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    TradersStudio vs TradingBlox

    Its the year 2006 and people are still trying to sell products that don't address the "bouncing tick problem"
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    War

    Iran hasn't done anything wrong (yet). As a signatory of the NPT, Iran is legally permitted to enrich as much uranium as it needs for civilian purposes. Despite all the noise, there is no evidence of anything other than a power station. There is something seriously wrong in the world when...
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    Official DD thread - Big Dow

    volume will probably improve tremendously once the brokers get their risk mangement sorted out. Many brokers only handle the offset of DD vs YM after the close, so buying 1xDD and selling 5xYM will tie up margin even though you are technically flat.
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    In memory of M3

    While being a small component, temporary open market operations are NOT the same as M3. M3 used to be reported in this report http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/Current/
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    Finally, a stripped down TWS made possible with new build 854?

    Minimizing the frame forces the java runtime to release all memory. The actually memory usage is actually far smaller. Try it.
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    More Americans are losing their homes

    Your praise may be a little premature. Flooding the economy with almost free money may only have delayed the day of paying the piper. But whatever the end result, Greenspan will always be able to say "Not while I was running the show"
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    Excel web query for last daily close

    Join this group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xltraders/ There are lots of sample files
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    A Must-have Firefox Add-on!

    I like "antipagination", "NoScript" and "FasterFox".
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    IB Suggestions & Improvements

    If you're not satisfied with your customer service experience then perhaps an email to ibmgmt@interactivebrokers.com would be in order
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    top 1% vs bottom 50% (US wealth)

    NOT Bullshit! http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/250.html As of 2003 (which appears to be the most recent data available), the top 1% (earnings above $295,495) earned 16.77% of the total income, but paid 34.27% of the total taxes.
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    Tradestation calculation bug?

    I thought tradestation time stamps were the end time of the bar. So the first bar of the day should be 901, not 900
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    Unreliable historical intraday data

    The problem with spending all this money to buy all this scrubbed data for testing is that real world trading results are unlikely to resemble results obtained during backtesting. Market data is dirty. If the filtering is not fully disclosed and/or suitable to be applied to real time data then...
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    What would it take to bring fiscal restraint & responsibility to Washington?

    Creditworthy? "February 16, 2006 BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON-- The Bush administration told Congress on Thursday it had begun to use a government pension fund to keep from hitting the $8 trillion debt limit. Treasury Secretary John Snow warned in a letter to...
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    What would it take to bring fiscal restraint & responsibility to Washington?

    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with...
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    Corporate Income Taxes Should be Regressive

    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with...
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    Do Bigger Stocks Weigh Heavier On NDX? NDX Formula?

    Yes, the index calculation is weighted by capitalization. The weights are changed ("rebalanced") periodically. The current weights are here http://www.iseoptions.com/index_components.aspx?index=NDX The top 10 components represent about 40% of the index.
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    TradeStation

    If it is a legal copy, then send an email to 2000iCustomerCare@TradeStation.com with your details and they will reply promptly with the password.
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    Corporate Income Taxes Should be Regressive

    One fix for that would be to only allow people that actually pay taxes to vote.
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