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    Congress Pursues $80 Oil With Trading Limits, Disclosure Rules : from Bloomberg

    I don't think I will bother with the US markets anymore. I am short oil and benefit from this but the level of Government interference in the markets is not acceptable. You just don't know what these IDIOTS are going to do next. I watched a profitable position go into loss because of Bernanke...
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    How is the SEC 'Experiment' Working??

    You are missing the fact that the SEC likes to promote itself as being active and doing a good job. Political soundbites seems to be pretty much its main mission these days.
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    Goldman "MacroGuys" Save the Day

    What were the reasons given in 2006 for the inverted curve being different this time?
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    Excel vs TradeStation

    As others have pointed out, TS is was designed working with for time series data, Excel has its uses, but IMHO analysis of time series data for multiple symbols is not one of them.
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    Cloned Drive then dead PC. Odds of getting it working?

    Even if you were doing it as an 'upgrade' or 'repair'? Need to know as I will have to do this sooner or later i.e keep all existing programs and settings but transfer to a new PC. I have had this done by IBM when they came around our department and upgraded all the PC's. Everything ran...
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    Cloned Drive then dead PC. Odds of getting it working?

    Would installing over the old install deal with those issues?
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    IB Future's COMMISH Structure, Naked & Revealed!

    Sorry, I got delayed, now, where are we:D
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    Does anyone here trade with pennies?

    Your working hypotheses with OTC stocks is that the stock will go to 0.0001 via reverse splits and serial dilutions and that the 0.1 vs 0.3 is probably the spread and even if it goes up 1000% you may not get filled when you try and exit. All stop levels will be violated at some point. They...
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    Cloned Drive then dead PC. Odds of getting it working?

    I would have thought that putting the drive in then reinstalling the O/S as repair or upgrade would ensure installation of correct drivers for new PC, no?
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    Some Hedge Funds really taking it

    They are looking for smooth returns from diversifying across diversified funds of funds diversified across diversified hedge funds, with the promise of higher perfomance I think you will find that what counts to Swiss bankers/family offices is not losing money rather than making money...
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    Some Hedge Funds really taking it

    O.K. I'll have a go: Its something that invests in manager compensation structures masquerading as an asset class.
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    Some Hedge Funds really taking it

    Think what happens when people try and get their money out of a ponzi scheme or out of a bank in a fractional reserve banking system. My guess is that if everyone tries to get the money they think they made in a hedge fund investment they will find they didn't make it after all. My suspicion is...
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    Did the SEC just put a floor under financials?

    whats next ban anyone holding stock from selling because its unpatriotic. yes.
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    Bernanke Getting Reamed

    Expect Bunning to vanish from primetime.
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    Starting/Working for a Hedge Fund

    As someone else stated, you would be far better off getting a standard agreement and changing the names to yours. Changing other things could potentially open you up to all kinds of problems if you don't get the wording right.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    Take a look at Buttontrader used with a numeric key pad.
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    What a fabulous simple solutiuon to stacking monitors. Probably costs about $20 vs the $1000 Ergotron etc would set you back. This has solved my problem - I can't buy multi monitor stands in Thailand. If I tried to get them through customs I would get raped on import duty. It is undoubtedly...
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    FRE and FNM

    P.S. they may decide to do it in a job lot over the weekend i.e. FNM, FRE and LEH also.
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