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Because F&E is so volatile. Somebody gets nervous about oil and bammo it's up ten bucks a barrel. Then it comes back down, it's tough to think that some speculative boom should influence the CPI numbers. But I've always thought they should include some sort of MA for F&E. And besides...

That's a surprising claim. If it's true and you have plenty of users, that's very impressive.

It's pretty funny when I see folks think that the feds are gonna give up that gravy train called income taxes. There are a whole lot of people who get fed every day because of various tax deductions, incentives and credits. Nearly every single congresscritter (and prolly all of them) gets...

Then what is not gambling? If you go to the store to buy a bottle of Maker's Mark, you might be unsure of the price, so you'll have a somewhat unknown outcome (how much money you'll have left to buy stoogies with). Or what about going to college to learn a trade? Who knows if you like it...

I've heard that before but also have been told that roaches need water every day. So how does a headless roach find and drink water? That's not true. Sometimes (frequently?) the female will munch on the male, but not always. Blue whales can? Whoops, I thought it was mammals. I guess...

Duck tape around the edge of the coolers. When we moved from Detroit to Charlotte, we taped up a cooler full of venison and it worked well.

I heard that chili sales at Wendy's is in the single digits. And the other way around. :D

Dang, that took me 15 minutes. You can play it at http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm

I've got 6 191Ts (LCDs) and a 21" CRT, but I don't trade stocks. My LCDs update my T&S windows fine for ES, ER2, NQ and YM. My LCDs are easier on my eyes. When LCDs started getting popular, FPS (First Person Shooters) gamers would say that they were slow. I never noticed that on mine tho...

I've never tried the lifeform, but I do like my Aeron. Employees of Herman Miller get a serious discount (over half off), might be worth a few drinks to make some friends. ;)

Dunno about the quad stands, but the duals are about as cheap as I could find a couple years ago. When you get a set, you'll see why - these things are heavy and well-built.

The latest Strong Bad Email is one of his best. Lots of inside jokes in the second half though.

Does IB even do margin calls? Or do they just liquidate? I've always just figured they'd close positions - it's not like they are a full service broker or anything. . .

Keep it civil. I just deleted a pile of posts, it would be nice to not see those same posters come back with more. Note that this is the Economics forums, not the Bush Bashers vs. Clinton Complainers.

Exactly. Every country that has tried to build some economic wall to protect their darling industry has suffered far worse (economically speaking) for their effort. Many people will bemoan this shift as many bemoan the end of the day - with the same result. The day still ends, and the USA...

0) Customized to me (it does some things automagically that are not found in other systems). Also, I am free to infringe on the copyrights of all the best UIs. 1) Uses IB's TWS API 2) Written in VB .Net 3) Written for XP. No need for Multi-thread, Multi-proc 4) No server farms or...

FWIW, I read 10AM to noon sometime.

When I thought I was an OK trader, I could hit the wrong button and still get out with commish+. But now that I actually make a small amount of money, it's part of my rules to bail immediately when I hit the wrong button - it's death to wait (for me). And it's one of my harder-to-follow rules. :(

Another good reason to roll your own like I did. I've got a price ladder, and they can't take it away from me. :)

FWIW, you can buy an app to disable UPnP: http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm I don't use this at all, have no affiliation with these guys and know nothing about it. The holes would still be in your firewall, but you may have less of a security problem if you disabled P&P on all your boxes.