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I don't even trade, let alone profit from subpennying. If it's illegal, why have there been no class action lawsuits yet? Don't tell me there's no lawyers that will pick it up because the HFT shops are too well connected. If it was infact illegal, it's got everything going for it as a...

So you are recommending more regulation, more rules to increase the "freeness" of a free market? It sounds like you are trying to change the rules to favor your own trading style. But if companies can game the system right now and beat you, what makes you think they won't be able to game the...

Sure we can compete. Indian income will rise as workers demand a higher standard of living and we will see our incomes drop. Wages will equalize somewhere in the middle. I'm in software dev and I work with a guy who also works for a company with a large dev team in India. They pay their guys...

To be fair, I would look 20 years older if I had to sit through getting degrees in religious and women's studies also.

Interesting to note that two weeks after the Exxon Valdez spill, Exxon stock only dipped 4% and was back up to it's pre-spill price a month afterward. Go zoom in on late March '89 and check the stock price; you can't even see the spill on the chart. Bush the Elder beating Dukakis in the...

Anybody long C has one hope: massive share buybacks. With all the money we've been printing lately, inflation will come sooner or later. "Toxic assets" are keeping the stock price price down right now, and will be lifted with the inflation tide to become massively profitable. Rather than...

AP, New York - In the third quarter of 2008, moments before Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd C. Blankfein had an unusually large bowel movement, the trading desk went long toilet paper futures. By the end of the day, prices had rallied and Goldman found themselves $100 million richer. The subsequent...

Just in the interest of truthiness, the only way the federal gov't backstops student loans is if they die. Student loans in default can attach to real property, wage garnishment, federal tax refunds, any kind of federal assistance (social security and such), pensions, and there is no time...

While(Executive.Bonus < Float.Infinity) { if (Crime.Profit > Crime.Penalty) { Crime.Commit(); } else { Crime.Evaluate(NextOpportunity); } }

MACD is popular with posted charts because when it says Buy or SELL, that's the very beginning of the move. It's impressive to see an entire move captured. If you have a bias on any particular instrument, you can watch for the MACD to indicate entry. When it gives a signal, the move will be...

So you're saying that a certain method or methods don't work. Yawn. Bring something constructive to the party. We have enough of general This doesn't work and That doesn't work. Give details. Show graphs where it breaks down. The Fibonacci Lines are Voodoo thread was interesting because...

Lowering taxes to spur economic development!?! Blasphemy! Everyone knows that the only way out of this downturn is to tax and spend, tax and spend dammit! We must tax ourselves into prosperity!

Time was that college was a place where you learned stuff, like how to be a productive member of society. Returning vets from WWII qualified for the GI Bill, and not all of those guys really should have been in college. But if you get a free chance to make a better life for yourself, take...

I completely agree. The end of personal responsibility will be the downfall of the US, and most likely the rest of western civilization.

They were using the ROV to cut lengths of the downed tube earlier. They almost sunk the ROV to the bottom when they cut it loose on one of them; the ROV arm was grabbing onto the piece they cut through, once they got all the way through it, the tube and the ROV started heading straight for the...

Of course not, but we like to dream!

Thank God we still live in a country where it is possible to control your own destiny. Where we don't have the gov't telling you what to major in. Where we are free to contract our own debts as adults. Good for her. She studied something she was really interested in. We can sit here and...

That big chomper thing has a grip on the pipe.. getting ready to bear down and lop it off!

Before you get behind on your mortgage, finance a couple new cars and max out the credit cards. Hire this lawyer to stall your mortgage payment, BK the credit cards, all you have in the car payments. Pay cash for everything else for those 7-10 years. Not an honest way to make a buck, but you...

Paperwork gets lost, even really important paperwork like a mortgage agreement. I'm sure this happened now and then before housing / credit / financing turned into front page material. It's just that those used to be respectable businesses and no one wanted to be seen as ripping them off, so you...