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Yeah, I was thinking about doing a Q&D analysis of ET expectations vs. the results for opening and final hour. I wonder if we'll see something interesting like "when it's very mixed, the mean or median ET answer is right, but when it is very focused, we're way off." I think it'd be pretty...

Thanks for your opinion.

OK ET, let's see how we do on Monday's market open. Where do you think the markets will be at 9:30 AM EST on Monday? No fair posting your answer at 8:30 AM :D. I'll sum up the results for posterity on Sunday, hopefully before Globex starts posting bids/asks. Feel free to post your thoughts...

That's what happened to me at first. I was jumping on breakouts to the downside just a bit too early (before they actually were breakouts), and putting my stops in just a bit to close (get nailed just before it would reverse). My problem was, I was confident it would be a down day and had a...

Well, I was close. Kaspie did better than I expected, good job.

I need an emoticon for suppressing the urge to mess with somebody's head :D. Not totally sure why they don't use today's close yet, but suspect it has something to do with when and how they update their systems over the weekend. There's a guy who goes by the handle of "def" who would...

840.5 is the pervious session close. Fire up TWS, and you'll see a close of 830.25, and a change of -10.25, add them together to get 840.5 - it's like magic. :cool: EDIT: I have no idea where Bloomberg is getting their info. Maybe a proctologist with a flashlight can show us someday :D.

Well, since the thread was entitled: "Why my threads are the most popular on ET" and the initial post consisted of little value to traders (quoted here in entirety): "I am probably one of the most intelligent traders in this community. I am HUGE!!" then it clearly does not belong in...

I didn't write this and I am unable to find the original source. The poster who put this up where I found it claimed that this was posted on Bean’s Bar. Wherever that is. EDIT: Found a link: http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2003_01_19_silflayhraka_archive.html#90229835 The...

And, the ET results at just after 3pm are: Way up 3 Up Some 3 about the same 2 Down a bit 2 Way Down 6 Good luck trading, gang!

Where do you think the market in general will go for the last hour of trading today? If you want the glory for your correct call, place it here.

The giant social security machine needs fresh meat for the mill, and us "born here" citizens aren't pinching out enough babies.

In Excel 2002, simply click on the row button (the numbers that start with 1 and go down the left hand side of the page), (that should highlight the entire row), then select either cut or copy from the edit menu. Next, click on the row you want to copy to, and select paste from the edit menu.

Here's a juicy quotes I wish he'd say now: "Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes."

Wow, I thought you were going to post he had a moment of lucidity last year and wrote this. Yeah, it's pretty standard Alan for the precareer days, unfortunately. Talk about a big enemy of fiat currency.

I gotta go with Gekko. Alan was a follower of Rand before he turned to the dark side. This would be a piece from his better days. And, you wanna see something really scary? Cut and past the growth of the money supply into Excel and chart it out. You'll turn into a major bear just like me...

OK, here's one statistic I have yet to understand - consumer debt as a percentage of "disposable income". Who has income they can just throw away? :D Seriously though, what is disposable? Are car payments on that swell Rolls Royce SUV disposable? How about if it's the fourth one you buy...

Did I call this or what? Wow. :cool:

Any place with a business location in your state will charge you sales tax (or is supposed to, anyways). For instance, if I had bought those 191t monitors from Dell, they were going to charge me sales tax. But, if I lived in SC (less than a mile from my house), no sales tax.

Remeber to put in a GTC buy at close-40 points on ES after the close, in case some idiot dumps 6k contracts. :D