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    High cpu usage...

    Get a few sypware finding programs and see what all is running that you don't need. Download rootkitrevealer as well, there may be a lot of junk running that you don't know about. I have a dll that if disconnected from TWS will hang the computer at 100% usage forever. I have to kill the process...
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    An unbelievable story about the NASDAQ today:

    That's what I read. I have thought of trying to do that on some thin issues to see what happens but never bothered. Repeat after me: check your order before sending it, check your order before sending it......... :D
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    High cpu usage...

    Are you running the newest DTNIQ? They have a new one as of the beginning of the year. My 2.6gig P4 uses about 10% of CPU running DTNIQ, Tradestation with 650 issues in radarscreen, Dynaorder, TWS, etc. after the open. I have a Matrox card and can slide a window from one screen to the other as well.
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    An unbelievable story about the NASDAQ today:

    Man, I am paper trading a strategy that trades some very thin stocks, OTCBB. This is scary actually, getting filled so far away from prev. close. Especially since I found a bug that changes the limit order price by a factor of 1000 times what I want if the price is under 10 cents [tradestation...
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    The HouseTaker's Trading Journal

    You are probably scoring better crack than I am!! It will be good to see how it plays out.
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    Backtesting a Basket of Stocks in TS

    You can backtest in Tradestation radarscreen actually. You have to generate the kind of report you want for yourself via writing to Excel files or via the indicator prints. It is crude but quick. You have to make the parameter changes by hand so you can do successive approximation in that regard...
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    Trouble sleeping :(

    Melatonin works basically but you need to get to the underlying reason why you are not producing it on schedule. Regarding Coffee being a source of magnesium, it is, but you get a net loss of magnesium due to the stimulation from the caffeine. Coffee is a powerful anti oxidant, very powerful I...
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    Best Data Feed?

    DTNIQ seems to be ok, had it for 2 moths. They do not provide bid/ask history however, but price is good for 500 symbols and only costs $20/month to jump to 1300.
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    The Beginning of Giving Houses Away.

    I have watched several housing cycles. The developers and sales people believe their own hype after the party is over and wind up closing out the last phase of a development at greatly reduced prices. The people that bought the next to last phase go crazy and try to get concessions out of the...
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    Trader Myers-Briggs Personality Type

    INFJ counselor idealist. That test is uncanny.
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    Trouble sleeping :(

    Sorry, it's tough swimming upstream, and now I am doing it without a stimulant. My bad. Actually, after 3 weeks sans coffee, I had a cup the other day, within a half hour I was so nervous I was practically having auditory hallucinations..... time for me to quit for sure, everybody else can...
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    What's the best indicator?

    I believe that you need to have a statistical idea of win% vs lose% and win/loss ratio before you can apply money management, no? How do you know how much to put on a position before you start the trade if you don't know those things?
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    Steve Forbes- what's the value of his opinion?

    I don't like the guy, Republican leaders were talking seriously about replacing the IRS with a consumption tax in the early 90's and all of a sudden Forbes morphed the conversation with his "flat tax" ideas, which were never going to be flat.
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    Looking for a simple figure.

    What language are you programming in? Probably one that frustrates you, believe me, they all do.
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    What would YOU do?

    You have to have computer skills with all that engineering going on, right?. Go with automated trading and keep the daytime gig. Before you can automate a strategy you have to have the entire thing quantified and you sound like the guy that could do it. With automation forcing you to complete...
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    India's Economy

    I worked with people from India in Southern California. Affable, intelligent, educated, good citizens are some of the words that come to mind. India started their own development plan decades ago with a first class educational system. It should pay off big time, is already I guess. One funny...
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    IB: is it really good???

    Did you start at IB in customer service? :D
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    Don't Americans see it?

    You can be one if you want!! Just kidding, I was just recommending that people check their sources, I have commie friends, they are cool people, I love 'em.
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    Iraq War: Projected Cost $1 - 2 Trillion Dollars

    I gotta see that
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