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    GE insider trading?

    No insider would want to own GE.
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    Is the pay version of Mawarebyte's worth while?

    I've been using the free version for a year on an xp and a vista system. Works great on both, extremely fast. Ive used it 100s of times and it locked up only once during an update, its great other than that. I think the full version is more a courtesy to the programmer, I haven't heard...
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    Even the pros blow up

    maybe they set up an offshore account and matched all their orders into oblivion...
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    Even the pros blow up

    He's only got to be up 2000% to get back to even.
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    what else in Amibroker shall I pay attention if I want to backtest futures?

    tickzoom delayed my lunch by 30 minutes one day... He knows how to talk.
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    Should minimum wage be lowered?

    healthcare, education, gas, cigarettes, etc are all missing from this analysis.
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    How much to risk on each trade?

    thats how its done with a volatility based method - stdev, atr.. etc are common types of volatility based stops. for a volatile biotech, you might only have 1% of your capital allocated... versus say 10% for microsoft...
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    Average daily profit with $50K account?

    you can definitely buy punishment :)
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    I am trying to give my money away. No one will take it

    Tell them you heard on ET that they are a reputable trading firm... They'll glue their phones down. Also, maybe they got a margin call and aren't interested in answering the phones...
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    Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax

    Looks like Sikes needed to pay some bills in a hurry. The look of James Sikes steering his bankrupt ass away from a truckload of yakuza while he pretends to steer his car into them- <b>PriusLess</b>
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    Krugman on Health Reform Myths

    Healthcare is the way to bailout out the healthcare industry. Just as banks and decrepit car companies were bailed out. End of Story. Even resident short Jim Chanos has figured out as much, and is stepping aside from shorting the sector for the time being. As for why healthcare needs a...
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    The "Repo 105" Scam: How Lehman Fooled Everyone

    they should've called them Enron 2.0 transactions
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    Apple's Cook Gets $22 Million Bonus

    When are they going to release the iBubble?
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    Air force and trading

    Try the pipefitters union or some other apprenticed technical trade. They are the only decent wages people can expect going forward. If you are a good tradesmen and you don't mind traveling there are always big projects funded by government money which is nice when the economy has tanked.
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    Automating the creation of several windows with strategies in TradeStation

    This requires zero work in amibroker.
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    Market Cycles learned from experience...

    Buy stocks that are earlier on in the alphabet... people hate looking through any resource to find something, stick with anything before J.
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    How to convince wife to let me trade full time?

    I guess hardo is going to have to change his username now...
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    Too many trades? Mean variance portfolio optimization and rebalancing?

    Read Rish Narang's new book - "inside the black box" http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Black-Box-Quantitative-Trading/dp/0470432063/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 Specifically - the transaction cost model is discussed. Probably at any given time, for the most important trades, very few stocks in the...
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    Error & Omissions Insurance?

    Ya also, you would need a good lawyer to discuss in depth your responsibilities, and their limits to your investors as well...
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    Jim Rogers: "I'm long the Euro."

    He's saying this at a technical bottom, so really its a low risk trade for anybody.
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