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The VIX is in the 20's and IB wants $3250 initial intraday margin for one contract, YM... why does anybody trade index futs with them? You can trade six contracts with that much margin other places... I was tied in with them due to use of their API but I switched to screen trading. I can use any...

Teaching kids the basics would not make them dumber. If they want to go beyond that there are free libraries.. life is a Montessori school, pick a subject...

It wouldn't take millions. The richest pay half the Federal budget and probably similar in California. If they formed a political party of their own to get themselves off the tax hook they could have Cal /Fed begging for money...

Have you seen the pile of papers they shove across the table when you close a real estate deal? You cannot do enough due diligence to really know what you are signing... and an attorney that may or may not know what you are signing is likely to cost a lot.. Obama's admin so far is actually...

Ben Stein wrote a great book on buy and hold. You buy when indexes are below their 200 WEEK averages. You buy when everybody has sold and is probably still selling, you buy really good companies when the general market has dragged their price down, when the blood is in the streets. You don't...

At the consulting company, there were several reasons that we were successful. One was the high pay, we attracted some incredible talent. Another thing was that our tough boss did not let managers misuse that talent. He made the clients spend weeks in meetings until they had decided exactly what...

Agreeance on the magnesium. If I wake up in the night and I can't sleep and I'm sort of aching in my muscles I take some magnesium citrate in water. Within a half hour I'm just feeling a lot better and then I'm relaxing and going to sleep. Magnesium is fundamental to probably every system your...

All drugs should be legal. People can take personal responsibility for what they absorb into their bodies. We could have our fourth amendment back at that point.. we are fighting some huge failed wars in the US, the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs could both be dropped nearly in their...

The guy was way old enough to know better and he had his feet all up on the chair back in front of him... people with their feet on the furniture... do you reason with them? I've divided people into categories for a long time, those you reason with, usually they are cooperative and grown up, and...

Trade a day live then replay it about ten times faster and trade it again... I did that for awhile, it helped me to overcome shattered nerves from stressful times, if you can trade at ten speed the ordinary day will put you to sleep rather than stress you...

I've known programmers, watched them work, served as a listener for their problems, complaints and triumphs.. I would hire a Phd that had a lot of experience coding and some coders. The Phd would coach and write code too... those guys are amazing, the typical coder is not too... I hired a...

The root of the problem is that we all believe lies that are whispered in our ears by evil itself when we are little... evil steals everything it can from us decades ahead of time, we are all on the learning curve and evil attacks us before we even get started learning almost, then we spend our...

Home sales are seasonal, they usually rise in the summer. Prices usually peak in or after summer too.. this seems a little early though..

Schwarzenegger has not necessarily a whole lot to do with California's problems. We have a very far left legislature, have had for a very long time. This crisis is proof that there is no upper limit for leftist spending. The only limit is bankruptcy, then beyond that no bailout from the fed, and...

I've been in movies a lot when some clod in the row behind me was kicking the back of a seat in my row.. .you can feel it all across the row with these plastic seats... once the missus and I were the only people in the theater and a couple sat directly behind us and one of them proceeded to kick...

Any drug store, it's sold nationwide... When I can't sleep I tense and relax all parts of my body. Start with toes and work up, I'm usually asleep before I get to my scalp. There is a feedback from thoughts to muscle tension and muscle tension to thoughts.. tense and relax the muscles and it...

I think these guys gave the upraised middle finger salute to the Democrats that were MANDATING that lenders make loans that could not be paid back... good job guys. :D

You are what you think. If you think you are a monkey enhanced by time and chance you might rack up thousands of meaningless posts on ET's non-trading forums...

It feeds the good bacteria needed by your digestive system. As they get stronger and bigger in numbers they crowd out all the bad stuff like funguses, etc... I have bought the raw ingredient before, in bulk, it's very cheap but getting into some kind for that is easy to get down, that's an...

It's all working out for me btw, all worth it. I trashed my own credit simply because I was sick of it. I destroyed my career simply because I was sick of it. I took two and a half years off, fought the collectors, burned through my 401k, took shit from everybody in the family... and guess what...