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    Bear Stearns portfolio value a litmus test for bonds

    Should be 100% of par. Check your inputs again.
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    Bear Stearns portfolio value a litmus test for bonds

    They will just apply the same BS valuations as the I-Banks. The Fed did not cut rates 325BP to boost the I-Banks balance sheets only to then turn around and sabotage this by posting the true worth of BSC portfiolio. More likely they will revalue it UP as this helps their masters.
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    Why is "ADD" called a disorder, let alone "treated"?

    I am not sure that we all lead a "vastly more successful life" even if not categorising "successful" according to narrow society/sheep values. The less we are in a school/corporate and relationship situation the less we are troubled by it. A seal hunter living alone in the middle of nowhere with...
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    Why is "ADD" called a disorder, let alone "treated"?

    ADD children don't fit into school system so it is therefore a classed as "disorder" As one person siad, if two million children have to be put on drugs to go to school that suggests that there is something wrong with the school system rather than the children. I was thrown out of school at 16...
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    Trading for a living; only very few can

    I see strong reasons why 5% of the population make it in sales or trading and 5% of the population have ADHD. Soros is on record as saying that normal people who feel comfotable with the majority view should not be investors i.e. good corporate man/sheep = bad trader, likewise the salespeople I...
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    S&P500 made a double bottom today!!!

    My pet conspiracy theory is that with the Bush term ending the game will end, so they are creating a blow off top (and associated volume) to sell out into, just as happens with stocks. Sabre rattling re: Iran etc is the tool. With high prices new supply will inevitably become economic to extract...
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    S&P500 made a double bottom today!!!

    Cramer and Kudlow turning negative are huge buying signs, agree, but looking at the market IMHO real recovery rally will come after all those currently on the sidelines waiting to pile back in have done so and lost. Right now there is just too much activity and too many people eager to buy the...
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    Excel

    Is there a higher limit with e.g. Open Office or what is/used to be called Applix or any other such Excel clones in terms of number of filelds handled via DDE type interface? Prefer Windows compatible apps but would consider something running on Linux. Excel DDE tops out at 2500 fields if you...
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    Automated Chart Pattern Recognition

    You might also consider Patternz By Bulkowski (free): http://thepatternsite.com/patternz.html#PZ4 Tymora also scans for some patterns Tradestation 8 apperars not to have been mentioned - maybe because it will not scan the whole market (TS2000i can with the right data feed). Andrew...
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    Greenspan: Fed Will Have to Raise Interest Rates

    Greenspans speech bookings must be slowing down so he has to come out and stir things up. I did see him (youtube) confronted at a book signing by a young person asking why he acted in a way that causes problems in the future. The vile old lizard looked pointedly away not deigning to...
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    Mainboard accepting Fewer RAM Sticks

    Thanks, will look into that.
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    Mainboard accepting Fewer RAM Sticks

    Kiwi, about to go on a trip, will detail when I get back. If I could be reasonably sure it was mainboard (what else could it be?) Power is presumably fine (changed to uprated PS), memory is presumably fine (each stick individually works), CPU runs 24/7, this would be the most time/cost...
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    Market Calls Benrnanke's Threat to Lift Rates, and RAISES HIM

    I think the idea is to buy time and inflate themselves out of trouble in that inflation will reduce real debt and support nominal property prices so prices will rise and write back nominal losses and debt will be less, cutting rates also weakesn the dollar and boosts exports at the expense of...
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    Market Calls Benrnanke's Threat to Lift Rates, and RAISES HIM

    He doesn't get it, once you have let the inflation genie out of the bottle it won't go back in with a bit of jawboning from an academic buffoon, it won't even go back in if he raises by the 325BP he cut. It feeds on itself. It will only go back in if the Fed jacks up interest rates until it...
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    Lehman Emergency Weekend Meeting

    People who are percieved as owning a client relationship.
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    Mainboard accepting Fewer RAM Sticks

    There may be two seperate issues here. Existing in place memory fails because it is damaged by a power surge, BUT there is also a separate issue with recognition of new memory. Getting it to boot after changing sticks and slots is pot luck - but once a configuration is accepted and boots...
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    Mainboard accepting Fewer RAM Sticks

    Please tell me the logic behind your suggestions in terms of cause and effect i.e boot falure at a particular point in POST. We went through a process of elimination of everything eg removed video cards etc etc one by one with someone who makes a living with computers - it seems after going...
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    Mainboard accepting Fewer RAM Sticks

    Main board is Intel D865PERL OS is XP Pro SP1 CPU fan may not be issue as seems OK and problem when booting after the PC has been off for a while. Boot fails with mouse and keyboard (+ everything else) disconnected. Problem has twice been temporarily cured by removing a stick of RAM but it...
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