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So tell us your exposure, how many contracts/options/whatever are you in? I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but it be fun to celebrate your winnings, and it'd be interesting to see your losses. For the record, I am very slightly thinking upside for a bit. Very slightly, practically no...

While possible, that's pretty rare (AFAIK). I'm running cable, and I get slightly better than DSL speeds (just about 2 mbs).

I'd like to point out to all the successful traders that "fresh meat" is pretty much essential to our continued profits. The rest of my plea is self evident.

What we need is for Ignore to work on threads - if somebody from my ignore list starts a thread then I never see that thread.

I'm guessing 777 has been dropped from ALICE's ignore list :D. Well, let's see how our hero (Mr.Market) has been faring. A review of his current portfolio (assuming that he has exactly the same amount of money invested in each and every position) shows that he has lost a "summed up" 13.0103%...

Check out your case. If you built it yourself, you'll know what it runs, but if you bought it you might have a little trouble. For instance, back in 94 I bought a Gateway and paid $50 for a full tower, with the idea that I'd be upgrading it myself. Turned out that the full tower case didn't...

That's nice, and will work if you are on dialup (with an internal modem) to the net. But if you are broadbanding (cable or DSL or Sat), you'll have trouble. You'll be able to play solitare on your laptop, but with your net connection down (because your cable modem, DSL modem or dish don't have...

Insane is putting it mildly. A $500 margin (not that I know of a place that has margins this low) represents just 10 points on ES. It can move that far in the time it takes you to say "Holy #@$%!" and hit your "Close Out Everything at Any Price Emergency Exit" button. Then, your account...

Isn't Friday some Islamic holiday (like Sunday for the Christians)? Hmmm . . . .

It's LUNCHTIME! :D

To check your ignore list, click on "Your Account" in the upper right corner, then click on "Edit Ignore List".

Count me in with the cable modem guys who don't usually get disconnected. Yesterday I did, along with everything else as my cable hiccuped, but that was hardly TWSs fault.

LOL. You know not of what you speak. My spirit is soothed, there is money still to be taken. Someday, you should really should read Rand to understand, seeing's how you are stealing the name of one of her most famous characters. You remind me of the part of AS where FA tells DT that she...

Just ran Mr.Market's "Always Win by Never Booking a Loss" portfolio. For trading since Jan 1 2002, he is down a "summed" percentage of 12.26% over 23 positions for an average position loss of 0.533%, excluding commissions. His biggest loser is ACMR at ~ -48% and over half of his open positions...

My leg length is 32", and when my chair is maxed out, my legs only slightly decline - if I was wearing shoes, I think they'd be at 90 degrees - straight out. But I move around a lot, and when I lean back in my chair, my toes barely touch the ground :D. I suspect that if I stayed in one...

Amen to that. I've got two kinda old desks, they are amazingly heavy and solid (made from solid wood). But, they are for short folks, so I made "blocks" of 3 4" squares of 2x4s and put one under each leg of my desks. Now I can raise my chair to maximum height, and it is much more...

That 25 question test sounds like the sample or practice test, rather than the standardized tests Mensa now uses (and have always used, AFAIK). Though Mensa does allow certain previous evidence to qualify new members for admission. For instance, my ACT was allowed (but I missed by one stinkin...

As simple as blowing a cloud of cigar smoke. Yet, you'll notice how tough that is to model. . . I don't understand why you think it would stay at this magic "equilibrium" level. Crap, when I worked at MSFT, folks would more-or-less randomly dump their options and ESPP. There's a definate...

Explosion, fire, smoke and death, same as always. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20030221/ap_on_re_us/refinery_fire

In yet another sign of a continued bear market, my dentist yesterday asked me about Elliot Wave theory, and expressed his opinion that prices have definitely gone down enough. And my neighbor also let me know he thinks we've hit bottom because there is so much money flowing into the markets...