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  1. stevegee58

    Old monitors and high pitch whine

    FWIW I think Dell monitors are actually Samsung.
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    Old monitors and high pitch whine

    Ya know, I thought about that after my original post. The sad fact is that even the most trusted and reputable recyclers end up shipping junked PCs and CRTs to rural China anyway. I'm not sure there's much you can do about it. Asking where they ship things, or researching them on google...
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    Options Analytics Tools

    I use TOS and IB. TOS has absolutely killer option modeling features. You can do risk graphs for arbitrarily complex option spreads. You can also play around with what if scenarios like "what if IV goes from 45% to 30%?" You'll see the effect of changes like this on the risk graph. Very nice.
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    Old monitors and high pitch whine

    It's the flyback transformer in the CRT. They go bad after a while and start making a racket when the seal on them breaks down. They oscillate at a very high audio frequency and that's what you hear. Yes, it's only a matter of time before they go boom. Just junk 'em and get new LCD monitors.
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    Zecco Trading mess-up

    Haha. On April 1 Zecco Trading customers logged on and found that they had millions in their accounts that wasn't there the day before. Bad April Fools' joke, or system glitch? Turned out to be one big royal screw-up. TechDirt Story
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    # of current daytraders...

    I would think that this statistic would be hard to measure accurately. The labor department would probably register day traders as "unemployed" because they don't have a normal wage slave job.
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    Turbotax and schedule D

    In IB, go to account management/reports and then "tax forms" One of the selections for output format for the Schedule D worksheet is for Turbotax TXF. You save it somewhere on your computer and then import it into TT. Just did it yesterday lol.
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    Guru Dennis Bolze missing

    He was one arrogant sumbitch, wasn't he? Feeling pretty humble now I'd wager.
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    All Eyes on VIX

    Still, it's cool to look at:
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    What is happening to men?

    Rural, urban, southern, northern, western. It was a painful process, one that tries parents' souls.
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    What is happening to men?

    Not that I saw. The colleges we looked at appears to be fairly "white bread" as far as I could tell.
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    What is happening to men?

    Nope, just normal colleges. This 60/40 is typical in state universities, private colleges, etc.
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    What is happening to men?

    I can't speak for all areas, but in this area elementary school teachers are paid like $70K for a 9 month job and nurses are starting at around $60K. Last I checked, that doesn't qualify for a low paying job.
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    What is happening to men?

    OK, so I was making a funny. The article was right, though. When we were shopping around for colleges for my daughter a couple of years ago, the gender disparity was striking. Typically it's 60/40 F/M. Some it's 70/30. Where *are* the men going if not to college? That's not a 1.5%...
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    What is happening to men?

    Rule #1: Do not talk about Fight Club.
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    Finding a free RSS source for real time market data

    You have to be careful with your auto-refresh rate. If you're refreshing once per second all day, some web sites will ban your IP address. Also, remember what I said before: Polling a web page only gives the illusion of a real-time feed and polling faster doesn't help.
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    Finding a free RSS source for real time market data

    RSS feeds aren't "real time". They're polled every so often in a news reader or web browser. The default in Firefox is 30 minutes and I've changed that to 5 minutes in my own. Even so, RSS feeds won't achieve what it sounds like you want. AP, Reuters, Bloomberg all have pay news feeds...
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    Guru Dennis Bolze missing

    I'd argue that he's not Southern since he's from Pennsylvania except he's from that large area between Philly and Pittsburg called "Pennsyltucky". Dennis had some simple, straightforward ideas for trading that really cleared things up for me. The one really big put-off was his extreme...
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    Guru Dennis Bolze missing

    Accused swindler Bolze to remain jailed without bond Now with mug shot!
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    How To Read Channels

    So just to clarify: When you say "two on top" for "up" do you mean 2 touch points or 2 parallel lines above?
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