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First are you actually making money today? I ask this in all honesty because coming from a software developer IT background I/we have a habit of doing all this planning for nothing... If you are making money then the cost of running the most appropriate IT is not going to matter diddly squat...

I always wondered about how come in North America you count by medal count. A gold != silver != bronze. Because if they were then everybody would have gold. Though I think a fairer approach would be to say gold = 3 points, silver = 2, and bronze = 1. That way the scoring is fairer and balanced.

The National Socialist party were not commies. They were not even that much socialist. The National Socialist party were a bunch of rabid nationalists. The name was there to attract people. Take for example the CSU in Bavaria. CSU = Christian Socialist Union. They are anything but socialists...

That's too bad...

I am new to Elitetrader. And have been posting a few responses. But I am an old hat at Slashdot. One of the things that some complain about on ET is the fact there is noise. So I was wondering, what if ET were to support Slashdot type Karma. Essentially what happens is that all Slashdot...

LOL... Seriously though, there are time intelligent posters on ET. Actually I happen to like Elite trader... Though and I think there is quite a bit of noise. ET has some very distinct attributes that I at first was not aware of: 1) Bait questions or comments. Like, "the US sucks", or...

I am going to be cynical... If I use IB and save money per trade it will not take me long to have my CNBC paid for and then some. I can understand why people like TOS, when they are beginning. BUT once you start to make money at this game TOS just sucks in fees, execution, etc...

I really like your example, it is great and really shows what can go wrong. One the tricks we used to in engineering school was stand on our beer cans and then squash them without getting our fingers caught in between. Yes yes dumb, but hey when you are drunk most simple things seem interesting...

Hey that makes two of you. I remember the day I was watching the drama unfold. When I saw the towers collapse I thought, "now that's an odd way to collapse..." Whereas everybody was saying, "OMG, the towers collapsed..." To give you an example of what we are talking about look at the...

Wow dude, you seem to know so much about me. I am in fact an engineer and went to a well known university! So getting past your rhetoric, and your "common sense" is actually impairing you at what I am getting at! The problem with the twin towers was that the entire weight is distributed on...

When I started trading five years ago I came from a programmers background. Now that I know the business I find my skills as a computer person comes in handy in situations like this. So let's start. First running everything on a single machine is asking for trouble. What if the machine goes...

As much as I like and dislike CNBC I think your point sums it up quite nicely... "The fact is that it's not bad if you want a daily market overview and some decent news and commentary" Do I think CNBC has some talking heads on it? Absolutely. But that is not the point. The point is that...

Funny that the picture was shown. I am a mechanical engineer, and when the twin towers collapsed I thought, "ok so who f***d up the design?" Here is why I became instantly skeptical. Do some research on the empire state building. A plane has crashed into it, and its still standing. Granted it...

If he sold by accident he made his money as the oil contract expired and it was below 80 USD.

It all depends on your pocketbook. If you try to complement the naked calls with another strategy you are going to incur a cost without a return. Right now you have to pay for time value of money, and depending on the length of the option that could be very expensive or relatively cheap...

Ah ok... Understood... Hmm... I was wondering about this. So I guess the next pounding will be the other currencies. It is truly amazing how these bubbles are going around.

You are seeking new opportunities NOW in long dollar short real/euro???? Would that not have been more appropriate say 10 to 15% ago?

Take a look at what happened in the 70's and 80's. This market is moving very much like that one. I think the market will grind down for quite a while now. The Euro going down is not going to help the multi's one bit. Though on the positive side for Euro companies they are going to show how...

Yeah I guess failed might be a big word here. Though in my eyes what it shows is that the patience of the long term investor is getting thin. Right now as I see it there is a discrepancy between the short and the long part of the curve. I know for myself I have kept dollars for ages, but...

I don't look at those numbers! Ever since I have worked on the OTC desk doing trade reconciliation I have learned a few things. And the biggest is that never believe the volume numbers. The only consistency that exists regardless of volume, and statistics is price action... And the price...