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    Who would win in a fight, Trader or Investor?

    title said "Who would win in a fight, Trader or Investor? " It did NOT say "Good, Profitable Trader with Exceptional Money Management" :D I would go with the investor almost every time, unless I knew the trader and could verify their results. I would guess that after 5 years, the...
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    Obama: UPS and FedEx are doing fine, it's the USPS that sucks

    Except the USPS has mandates from the govt - trying to get away from Saturday deliveries, funding their pension plan, closing post offices, being told how much they can raise their rates, etc. When a private business does this, it is generally fine. But the USPS is hamstrung by congress and...
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    What does PF=1.075 tell us?

    even some people who have done buy and hold for long periods of time in the stock market have exceeded this. If they bought at the right times to avoid the drawdowns of the depression or such, they could have made one trade lasting decades, and the natural 7% whatever rise of the stock market...
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    $787B Toxic Asset Relief Program never bought any Toxic Assets

    The same banks that are paying huge bonus money to retain the leaders that oversaw the banks' collapse, driving up fees on any consumer account they can since they got slapped on credit card fees, etc. Think if they had put $787 billion into building and researching realistic alternative...
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    NYMEX squawk service

    Quote from traderTX: Good volume still done on the floor. Volume is rapidly dying almost everywhere, except some options and perhaps the meats. The currencies were so bad, that Chicago shoved every major currency into one pit. ICE mothballed all its pits (CSCE, etc.) in one stroke...
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    Bible cant be true because of million year old fossils/carbon dating...right?

    and? I am already quite aware of the French woman Your point was, there was no max age listed in the Scripture. It was obvious it was intended as a maximum, as the context is that God is no longer intereested in striving with (dealing with, arguing with) man for unlimited or extremely...
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    Bible cant be true because of million year old fossils/carbon dating...right?

    Genesis 6:3 (NASB) Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
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    Giving away trading books.

    true, but happily, you were on the case, Sherlock...
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    NYMEX squawk service

    since electronic trading is closing up the floors, what do you hope it will do for you?
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    helped or hurt my future career?

    many are likely to do an online search on you on the internet if a perm position as well as criminal/credit checks. Make sure that EVERYTHING they could find appears professional and normal.
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    Giving away trading books.

    you mean, it is bad if someone gives away books, and actually uses the correct category (classifieds) for running such an ad? terrible
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    medical insurance folly

    Since when do insurance providers provide prescriptions? At most, they usually use mail-order drug companies to do this, which may cut the cost of the co-pay
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    2010 Senate Races

    I would consider all projections as highly suspicious at this point. It could go either way or stay similar, with every path possible. There are so many issues, from Health Care, the economy, terrorism, joblessness, and many other things, no one has a real clue where this will go. The...
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    Bible cant be true because of million year old fossils/carbon dating...right?

    Actually, it says from a particular time forward, than man will not live longer than 120 years.
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    $787B Toxic Asset Relief Program never bought any Toxic Assets

    last fall, purchase of toxic assets had to be done ASAP or things would fail. Well, what happened? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8296946&page=1 Watchdog Warns Toxic Assets Remain a Major Danger to Financial System Report by Congressional Oversight Panel Says the Troubled Asset...
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    Tesla Turns A Corner -- And A Profit

    True, but the article I read on Tesla said there are a lot of expenses looming, also factoring in the huge contract they got for battery work from the government. This profit may have nothing to do with the next few year's performance. On the other hand, it MAY continue. No one is sure.
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    Am I on the right track?

    trading on fundamentals can work, but there is no way you can predict WHEN the market will move according to that data. Fundamentals does not lend itself to day or very short term trading. You have to be patient, and be willing to be wrong or unrewarded a lot.
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    Website spammer

    User ID is same as his website. Obvious free traffic/redirect seeker: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=172803
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    Psychology, are you sure?

    First - Whatever you call it - analysis, strategy, edge - if you don't have this, you are going to the casino to try your luck against the house advantage. Play long enough and you are almost 100% going to lose over time. Psychology will not help you here Second, even if you have an edge...
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    $73,000 for a 1 night stay in hospital because of a snake bite

    A real insurance company (not like what she seemed to have had) first would dramatically lower the overall charges to customary and prevailing. I had sinus surgery before that went from like $7500 down to under $2000. Then my share was about $200 The main purposes of insurance is not...
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