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Saddam was out of compliance with UN rules for many years. When the US finally went in and took him out lots of people were waiting in the wings to make sure the political price was very high. Maybe Israel will work it out some other way? The regime there has a whole 8% popular support, Israel...

Z10 is a disease on the order of salmonella, he doesn't kill you but once you've experienced it you never want it again. I think he has me on ignore so I can say these things without getting the usual resultant diarrhea. Brittany is from California, it is a blue state, blue senators, blue...

But they are not hysterical and they cannot assuage our guilt about using materials so they don't count, besides they are probably not even political.

Jack acts like he invented some kind of piecewise linear engineering style chart overlay that encompasses price, trend and volatility in two swell foops and he can make lots of money with that all day every day. All the conventional wisdom of traders will tell you that it is not possible. 95%...

LTCM story, but were they pro traders really, or academics that stumbled onto the wrong playing field? They also doubled their use of borrowing power when they returned half the money to their clients and kept the same position sizes on..... sort of like pro mistakes on steroids at that point...

I have seen prices surge after delisting from NASD too. I really have no explanation for that, issue's first day as an otc and the price runs up!! It was happening with some regularity when I was looking at that stuff.

I read the Crabel book and tried to adapt the ideas to intraday periods with little success. It was a similar experience, the stops had to be pretty wide. I got fooled by looking at charts and not realizing how much price would dither around inside the bar. Backtesting was great until I tested...

I really only know Tradestation so I can't comment in a real way as to the best out there. One odd thing though, I found that I could use Tradestation's Radarscreen to backtest in a crude fashion and that enabled me to run tests on 1000 issues at a time with maybe a year's worth of intraday data...

I think I bought one actually. Friends talked me out of going to a seminar at $2000, whew, I have to learn to lay down until those feelings go away!!

Teaching.... part time job with MONTHS of vacation, several of them, in a row no less. How much should it pay? Enough to get qualified people to do the work, just like every other job, and so far, it seems to be working. We could pay them less and less every year and still get qualified people...

Brittany is saying she shaved her hair off because her boyfriend was threatening to use it to prove drug use and take away her kids. Maybe she is not so crazy?

There is no onus on you to do anything really, maybe you should wait. The government has to have their say first apparently.

Kitchen Confidential was a good read. The author spoke of the highest priced places having the truly mediocre food. He said the old rich guys that were the patrons did not know the diff.

A most interesting piece of history indeed. Personally I think that there are so many parties with vested interests in the status quo in the Black community that it will remain the same for decades.

Crime is just fascinating, we watch movies about criminals all the time, and it makes for some incredible drama. My question is why does it go on? Do some people want it that way? If you want to screw up a culture just destroy the relation between the police and the people in the culture. The...

Credit is the greatest, especially when you are too old to get another job and know you are going to be axed, forced retirement city is what I'm talking about. It is not like you need a credit rating at that point, right? Spend until you cannot make the minimums and then get axed, if you keep...

Brittany might actually reform and get better you see, this government thingy, with $12 Billion in lobbying every year, it is not going to, put it on ignore until everything collapses and that can take a while, Rome went from Republic to Empire and was incredibley corrupt... and then after a few...

He He... the guy wrote books on avoidance of income taxes... This resurrected thread reminds me that the very first time I had the notion of trading was when I listened to Wade Cook speak on an infomercial. That had to be 12 years back and I recall it now, I had forgotten about it entirely. He...

I'll work on that.

The big money guys that run everything have Iran all under control and are scheming to make a zillion dollars out of the situation. Meanwhile we are supposed to be worrying about all this shit? Worry cuts into your ability to think and remember, not worth it. Don't worry, be happy, think...