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    Fear of quitting day job...

    Part of what you should understand, is there is a big diff between trading on the side and trading when you have some expectation of living off the income - that is called "scared money". You become irrational when the expected money is a source of income. The 1% chance is not a mirage and...
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    spammer - April 16

    Question, why does ET host a continuous thread that is obviously a redirect for a website (http://pivotfarm.com - on bottom right of the pdf in every post), whose "forum" (top right) is just a link to a major competitor (T2W), harvests email addresses (bottom right of main page...
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    New Trader Tips

    Learn that this is wrong: "Commissions are incidental and a very small cost of success." The reality is, that trading costs are a huge problem for scalpers and a real cost of others seeking small gains. Also learn that "the market is NOT always rational."
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    Canadian Economy - What's your outlook..?

    If Australia looks east, I believe they will see New Zealand :p
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    RIAA Wants Gov. to Delete Your Illegal Downloads

    So if you held the copyright/patent to something your parent did, it is ok for every else to personally deem your possession as "in the public domain". and use it in spite of your legal rights? If your house was more than 40 years old, it would be right for others to declare it as "in the...
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    Goldman real estate fund down from $1.8 bn to $30m

    How is that different from what the OP just said? It was revealed earlier this week that Morgan Stanley’s most recent $8.8bn international property fund will lose as much as two-thirds of its value.
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    Spam?

    can we ban the IP address?
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    Spam?

    Hello. I am confused. Why are you calling for me to be banned? I have no other user IDs as you imply, any moderator can check my IP address...I'm not following, what exactly did I do? :confused: I just signed up here... Lets see, other spoofer popped up pretending to be me PMs me...
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    Health insurers shifting costs ahead of law: report

    My thought - How to get from 74% of premium dollar to 80/85%? Perhaps they will offshore the jobs... Clever Health insurers shifting costs ahead of law: report Reuters By Susan Heavey Susan Heavey – 2 hrs 21 mins ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some of the largest U.S. health...
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    Obama: Why go to an asteroid? Maybe there's gold in them rocks.

    And how do they plan to get those precious metals to Earth? Maybe we can rocket it down to Earth and cause another dinosaur extinction event And when you try to get them to Earth, most parts of a meteor will explode and disintegrate through the friction of the atmostphere - it is called...
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    Huge Econ News for Israel

    This is the list of articles on that same page. Notice a pattern? Next time, try using a site that is a bit more "objective" * 9-11 Activists Investigating Michael Goff Assaulted * Israel Did 9-11 - How to Spread the Truth * Support Bollyn.com * A Note of Gratitude...
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    High Frequeny Trading Quant "Traders" wanted...

    sim not matter, small accounts not matter, short term accounts not matter, bad metrics not matter. if you were trading $80,000 for 2-5 years and returned 40%+ with good sharpe, drawdowns, profit factors THAT matters.
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    Spam?

    Joe/Baron/Magna if you can, please ban the IP address of the following user ID, it is the same person as above (as I said would happen) ---> Ross Canfield Please also lock ID and delete threads...
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    Fear of quitting day job...

    In 1-2 years, you will realize that the only problem is, you left a steady paycheck in a bad economy, for a 1% chance to get back to that income level, and the bruises all over your legs will be from kicking yourself for making an obviously very bad choice. The supporting viewpoints in this...
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    High Frequeny Trading Quant "Traders" wanted...

    no experience - how do they know you are any good
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    prop firm with 2500 risk deposit?

    agreed. I wonder much about firms that require little down from trader wannabes. I suspect it is mostly made up by higher fees and other charges ("education", etc.).
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    what is your favorite browser?

    I agree, that I found that Firefox does have problems sometimes at copying tabular data that can be transported into Excel from some websites. Chrome and IE worked on the ones I used. I find that FF (and now Chrome) have much better addons/extensions than IE. In fact, the IE extensions...
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    Monitor Resolution - 1680x1050 or 1920x1080?

    While I agree with a couple of your points, I disagree much with these two. Humans are not machines. Stuffing the screen with small characters/images and dense information leads to errors, oversights, confusion, delays and other things. Usability, clarity, being intuitive, brevity and other...
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    Monitor Resolution - 1680x1050 or 1920x1080?

    By monitors, I assume you are talking about your trading setups monitors only. I using the 1680 recently, and it is a pain in the butt surfing the web. Most pages are unreadable. I used extensions/addons to chrome, firefox, IE, and get amateurish results, sometimes huge, sometimes OK...
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    Huge Econ News for Israel

    it is better to lock than to delete a thread. Otherwise, you are tempting someone to interfere just to make a thread go away...
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