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    Sogo Trade Interest

    http://www.sogotrade.com/Home/InterestRates.aspx It says that the base rate is 4.25% but that is of Oct 30, 2008. Is this the current rate, or is there a new rate?
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    GDP: If US States were Countries...

    I wonder what it would look like if you compared gdp per person rather then overall GDP. For example, Delaware and Bangladesh have the same GDP but Delaware's population is 850 thousand, while Bangladesh's is 150 million.
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    Meltdown

    You might like this better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jEb7F5o_AY
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    Meltdown

    Good Stuff!
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    ML/echo

    It happens from time to time, usually when the basket arb exists. They will drop it from being borrowable even though they have it, just so you have to call the loan desk.
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    How to outperform the markets, if you are a fundmanager

    That's why you buy the call, you use the call when the market is above 9%. Return is SP + 2%
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    How to outperform the markets, if you are a fundmanager

    ok lets try this one. There are annuties(yes dreaded annuties) that offer 0 - 9% on the SP. So market goes down 10% your return is 0; market goes up 13%, you gain 9%. So if you combined that with Selling a Put that is at the money and buying a Call that is 9% away, your gain on the trade is...
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    NEW: Double weight spiders & Q's

    Will the SSO and QLD pay a double dividend? Are they trying to peg the ratio of the SPY to the SSO to start at 1.75? Will the inverse products owe a dividend? I am also curious if the inverse products will pay interest for being long. There had been some mutal funds that do this(profunds...
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    Best Websites

    Earnings.com Most people know about this one, but I still havent found a better corportate action calander site.
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    Earnings Calendar

    www.earnings.com it has a very comprehensive list including OTCBB and some Canada
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    Trade-Ideas Filter

    Does anyone know how to filter out ETF's on custom screens from trade ideas?
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    basic question on statistics

    Then, in response to your orginal question, it would be of the upmost importance to get every trade possible. A one trade difference yields could be the difference between a losing system and a winning system, since each trade is about 3 percent of the system.
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    basic question on statistics

    Your question is the bain of many traders, and is often the key to a trading system failure. The first posters are absolutely correct, in that you need to take a random sample period of time and see if you receive the 55/45 results that you indicated you had. Then if you had not done so...
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    CEF's, ETF's or Fund's with double beta

    I think optioncoach answered my question. I was hoping there would be a cef or etf out there. I figured there would be more demand for an everlasting non-decaying product.. In regards to Profunds, I spoke with someone who said that there beta +2 and there inverse -2(sp, dow, midcap, russ...
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    CEF's, ETF's or Fund's with double beta

    Does anyone know where I can find a list of CEF's, ETF's or Mutal Fund's that mimic the S&P, Dow, Russ, Nasdaq etc.. that have a double beta of the index. So if the index is up 1% the CEF is up 2%; if the index is down 1% the Fund is down 2% etc... I am just looking for a better hedge per...
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    Interested in a day trading method ?

    A few things you might want to consider: The kelly criterion is a good measure of how your system will accumulate weath over time. There are websites that can graph it out for you. What is also is interesting about the kelley is to plug your longest losing streak in and see how quickly you...
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    Free Stock Picks of the Day, Week, Month etc..

    Who has websites or is on an email list that they receive free stock plays? Have you backtested them? The reason I ask this? Its the same logic behind the infomecials that give sports gambling picks. They give there best pick out for free so that you will pay to get picks that are not as...
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    NYSE Only Quotes

    I am looking for a historical intraday(5 min) quote source for NYSE only prints. Esignal allows the =N function but can only go back 60 days and I was hoping for a year or two. Qcharts does not have an exchange filter that I know of. All of the quote downloaders that I have seen on the net...
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    wwatson1 journal

    Your calls have been great. Couple questions. How do you find these stocks? Do you have an advanced screener? The reason I ask is you have some very random stocks and your methodlogy seems to vary from stock to stock. Could you come up with your stocks with 1 hr, 30 min etc. left in...
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    Excel Macro?

    Hi, I currently have a live DDE feed into excel. I am looking for a macro that will take a snapshot of the quote and put it into the cell and then in some time period later (30s, 1 min, 5 min etc.) it will take another snapshot and put it into another cell. This will repeat itself for a set...
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