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DeFazio is a nut case and a lone voice in the House on these transaction taxes. There is no counterpart in the Senate proposing such legislation. Until that happens there's no transaction tax. It's not time to worry yet except to keep writing your Congressman to tell them why it's a bad...

Do they have attitude?

Here is the site I've been using to track this bill and others I'm interested in. As you can see, it's been sitting in committee since it was introduced and shows no signs of going anywhere. I heard someone say recently that unless a bill is introduced in both houses of Congress it doesn't...

Volatility Smile

Cheap OTM calls and puts are considered the easiest insurance against "the big one". Keep in mind that the IV on far OTM options is generally higher than ATM every since Black Monday 1987. Look up "iv smile". Higher IV = relatively more expensive. You're paying a higher than average...

Depends on what kind of video compression you use, if you record audio with, how good resolution you use and how much screen area. For all day, expect hundreds of megabytes conservatively.

You can do free hand drawing and text annotation on your screen using CamStudio as well. I've tried both and I'm starting to find that Camtasia feels a bit clunky now. I prefer CamStudio because it's simpler and more streamlined. For posting screen shots of charts here and other message...

I was poking fun earlier, but I have to reiterate something in the thread that I think is most important. That's exercise. It's just what a doctor would tell you. If you're not exercising now, it's also just the thing you don't want to hear. Basically I fall asleep faster and sleep more...

I do very little stock or futures trading. Most of my activity is in options, either straight or in spreads. In general options trading is "safest" in terms of having a max risk on each trade. Yes, you can have stops and what-not on stocks and futures. And yes, you can have option...

Dog is my co-pilot.

Well, that's all very nice but how's the food? :cool:

Gold sold from vending machines in Germany TG-Gold-Super-Markt has installed gold vending machines in 500 locations including train stations and airports all across Germany. The machines charge about 30% more than the current trading price for gold, and are updated every few minutes.

Just like the 70's? Everyone I knew in the 70's were full of love and crappy cheap dope.

Camtasia which costs 3 figures. Also CamStudio which is free.

I guess what I really meant was get laid with a live-in girl friend with a steady, good-paying job. Imagine the sleepless nights working for the man, being a wage slave, worrying about getting canned.

Dude, you need to get laid.

You're absolutely right about the trading aspect. But why trade with a built-in disadvantage all the time?

You're right, it's not bad. If you want to trade with a $200 account, then that's another matter. But for the size you're talking, $1 round trip isn't bad at all.

Widening the spread during a news event is robbery. ECNs don't widen the spread because there is no spread. There are just other traders' bids and asks in the order queue. Is there slippage during news? Sure. But fixed spread brokers widen the spread and you have no choice but to take a...