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Reasonable cap on the maximum size of steakes distinguishes skill game from mostly gambling. Naturally, people who gamble on the outcome of a tournament appreciate more gambling in the structure...

Allow me to rephrase it. How does the cost of Afgan war compare to the profits from distributing the opium produce? According to former British drug tzar (who was fired for his stance on ranking drugs according to observed harm and not according to folclore) heroin is still a mighty powerful...

Unless you spend all nights long downloading high definition movies, it is not the raw speed but latency that matters... and even more so consistent latency, When you request a Web-page it normally under 100kb including images and scripts. However, a typical Web-page contains 40 additional...

I wonder how the worth of opium produced in Afganistan compares to the cost of Afgan war.

Actually, no. Not tonight! Earlier I received a surprise party invite that resulted in more drinks than I anticipated. Otherwise, I would have still been sober by the time I wrote the post you are referring to. So, I am shopwing good judgement on the assumption that I would have been sober if...

Tis is a pun for people who actually click the link... I don't want to spoil your surprise.

That's what you call a big hitter

Irish opposition parties reasonably believe that the whole loan package will not be necessary unless Irish banks start collapsing like a house of cards, which hasn't happen yet. Further, a loan comes with rather high interest which alone will be over 10% of Irish government spending and allows...

In financial terms Ireland is tiny. Califoria to US is the same as Spain to the Eurozone. The difference is California doesn't have its own banks to bail out... and Wall Street banks have already been bailed out at a great cost to savers in the form of inflation.

Regarding a faster hard drive or SSD, I agree with Scataphagos that the actual trading applications are not hard drive intensive. If you are price-contious, I would hesitate paying extra $100 - $300 when the only benefit is saving 30 seconds whenver a computer is rebooted. Moreover, SSDs are...

If you don't want to install anything yourself and decide to stick with Cyberpower - your original choice - certaily, the price is right - go for a pair of ATI Radeon HD 5450. Each ATI Radeon HD 5450 card cost in the range $40-$60 and supports up to 3 monitors (so you can have the maximum of...

From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/bob-guccione-founder-of-penthouse-magazine-dies-at-79-after-long-illness.html

If you are talking about tick data for "busy" instruments, I would recommend to pass on Excel. For each cell with data Excel holds information about the colour, number format etc... which is way more memory than just a number. You'd probably be better off with a database. Then all programming...

CDS market is all about speculation... and in speculative markets "running stops" is a very common practice. "Investors" buy bonds without leveredge and hold most of them till maturity.

It's different from bringing your personal laptop to work. In fact, in the case of a fresh employee a number of employers realise it may take them ages to get approval for a purchase order for software. So, they are happy with people working on their personal laptops.

Well. there is execution, clearing, and holding customers' money.. and all of these can be outsoursed to people who do not do it themselves but rather serve as an agent...

Irrespective of what anyone may think of the Royal Family, I believe they have nothing to do with the increased topup fees. Regarding the cracked window, that's what bulletproof glass does under severe strain. Despite a few scrathes that's what armoured vehicles are supposed to do: drive...

It's not the same in finacial firms. Their for some jobs contacting compliance is nearlu daily procedure. I know a person who wanted to sell a (totally unrelated) stock on personal account. So, he asked for a compliance permission to sell (valid for a day) for over a moth daily till the price...

If you have any parameters in the system, it's a rule fo thumb to have 30x mor etrades in the backtest compared to parameters. So, if you had a simple moving average crossover system with the length of 2 moving averages as parameters and no stop, you'd need at least 60 trades for the backtest to...

If the laptop Windows is Professional or Ultimate, you can use "Remote Desktop". Othervise, there are a number of solutions for a pair of computers on a local network under a common title ov "VNC".... please search the Web for these.