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    Mr Bush to Mr Bernanke, the night before 75 bp cut

    Only one step away from Nixon directing the Vietnam war right down to which bridge to blow up, or maybe that's also happening.
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    Negativity + Stupidity= Horrible January 2008

    Thread closed.
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    US Housing...25% more Downside to go....

    You have been calling everyone on these forums and idiot or similar. My observation is that they are all intelectually in a plane several levels above yours and have the benefit of direct exerience to draw on.
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    US Housing...25% more Downside to go....

    He is just some teenager. If he went to see a Doctor the Doctor would probably tell him that someone of his age he should be spending less time on forums and more time jerking off and worrying about spots and whether girls can notice them.
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    US Housing...25% more Downside to go....

    The 1990's DEPRESSION in the UK was utterly brutal and housing led but sread to every facet of industry, believe me, I was right in the thick of it. This was at atime when you neeeded a 20% deosit and stable employent history to get a mortgage. It was a DEPRESSION but the Government never even...
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    US Housing...25% more Downside to go....

    "MasterCard shares have surged 86 percent in the past year as consumers switched to credit and debit cards from cash and checks. American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services, rivals that make consumer loans in addition to running networks, have declined more than 15 percent as a slowing...
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    Get off this National pastime of pessimism!

    From Bloomberg: MasterCard shares have surged 86 percent in the past year as consumers switched to credit and debit cards from cash and checks. American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services, rivals that make consumer loans in addition to running networks, have declined more than 15...
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    Using Neural Networks to Identify Chart Patterns

    You may be right as afae as NN goes and also in trying to program geometric perfection as per all the charting books, but most patterns have a few simple elements that can be coded for. The mistake is to try and code geometric perfection and not accept that you will be looking at quite a few...
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    Theanine in green tea has a GABA related calming effect that seems to override the caffeine also present. Green tea alsio containes antoxidants that can pass through the blood brain barrier it seems.
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    Maybe not as effectively, anecdotally it has been noted that cigarette smokers inhale differently depending on whether they want to concentrate or relax - forget the exact biochemistry/pharmacology or whatever of this, but it tallies with my own memry of usage.
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    I find I have got used to it, and may even have acquired a taste for it - think of those Amyloid Plaques dissolving if you gag over each spoonful of Turmeric enriched Meusli - Coffee flavoured milk masks the taste and colour somewhat - alternatively, just eat curry every day.
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    Huperzine A (an extract from chinese Club Moss) is being looked at as a treatment for Alzheimers and has been shown to have short term memory boosting action. If I remember correctly it blocks Acetylchline breakdown in the synaptic cleft thus increasing the amount available and so acting like a...
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    Alternatively, Turmeric (an Indian spice) Low incidences of Alzheimners in areas of India where it is a major art of the diet. Inhibitory action on Amyloid Plaque formation confirmed in lab studies. Sprinkle a teaspoon on your meusli in the morning.
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    Why Old Traders Are So Strange

    I think you will find the expression "mad as a hatter" comes from the behaviour of people exposed to mercury salts over a lifetime in the hat making industry where it was used in the treatment of felt. Like lead it is a cumulative poison and is NOT readily excreted.
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    MBI 500MM infusion

    They put out a statement about 'honouring their committments' or some such" - my guess is they have spent the intervening time trying to get out of it, but then got a call from Paulson on the eve of the downgrade explaining what it means to be a patriotic American...
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    Using Neural Networks to Identify Chart Patterns

    Check out a paper by Andrew Lo at MIT (?)
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    Get off this National pastime of pessimism!

    I heard Jim paul's 'What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars' is back in print. I suggest Day reads it - useful tips on not denying reality until a VP from a brokerage house comes and siezes your furniture* in lieu of money owed through negative equity. *Take a last look at those Granite...
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    Millionaire traders

    Agree with this. Answering to nobody is worth a loss of earnings vs cororate world so long as the bills can be paid.
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    Millionaire traders

    Come on, that's like saying salary is irrelevent so long as it is more than what it costs you to get to work.
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    Millionaire traders

    Personally, Yes, but they did it on open outcry floors and one lost it failing to make the transition to electronic. He makes the possibly biased point that he has never heard of anyone doing that from home, from a prop office maybe, but never from home. Anecdotally, many more. Most (but not...
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