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    Is there a way to watch cnbc live on my computer?

    Use a Tivo, Vulkano Flow, Slingbox, or cable provider app to watch your home TV on another computer. Power E-Trade Pro also comes with free streaming CNBC. Here's a link that provides some info around that...
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    How to improve your laptop performance?

    Replace your hard drive with an SSD. Best bang for the buck. Also upgrade to Windows 7. It's much faster than XP or Vista. If your laptop is older than 3 years, you probably should just get a new laptop (which will come with Win 7) and replace the hard drive with an SSD. You'll have a...
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    Complete list of active ETFs?

    You can access a full list of ETF's in an Excel file from the NYSE site: http://www.nyse.com/attachment/NYSEArca_Equities_LMMs.xls
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    Historical data with actual composite session close prices

    Can you explain the difference between the 2 prices? How are they different and why? I'm just looking to be educated. Thanks.
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    huge dividend blue chips

    My understanding is that margin is usually not available for retirement accounts, but it's possible that different brokers have different policies on this.
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    huge dividend blue chips

    I agree. Sell puts on good dividend yielders. The only downside is that it ties up your capital and/or margin.
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    Multiple monitors-USB vs. DVI vs. HDMI

    That IOGear solution looks good. That device gets 4 stars on Amazon and NewEgg right now and they run about $75. It says that you can run up to 6 monitors at a time using these. Of course you would have to buy 6 of them for $75 each to run that many monitors. It also says not to put them...
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    Accounting software?

    It also looks like PortfolioXL integrates with TD Ameritrade, so it most likely works for the Canadian counterpart TD Waterhouse.
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    Accounting software?

    Here's an interesting one. Look at the product called PortfolioXL. http://www.analyzerxl.com/index.htm As best as I can tell, it offers: - Multiple portfolio tracking - Data import/export - P/L updating based on data from Yahoo! - Customization since it's in Excel (could be used for...
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    Accounting software?

    You mentioned that sometimes the brokers have mistakes on their statements. I assume this means that you want to enter the data yourself rather than import it from their systems? I don't have much experience dealing with multiple currencies. What exactly is your requirement for this? Do...
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    Accounting software?

    How many trades do you make per year?
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    Multiple monitors-USB vs. DVI vs. HDMI

    Here's a great article on setting up multiple monitors, including info about how to mount them and how to tweak your Windows desktop on them. http://daggle.com/my-multimonitor-setup-three-screens-for-one-computer-76
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    Accounting software?

    What brokerage do you use? Most, if not all, brokerage accounts should be able to provide you with that information on their web portal or within their trading software.
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    Is GOLD (/silver/etc) a bubble?

    One gold mining stock that has been beating the price of gold (on a percentage basis) is TRE - Tanzanian Royalty Exploration. The nice thing about the miners is that they are essentially getting more money for doing the same amount of work as the price of gold rises (even slowly).
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    Is it a good time to buy an investment property

    What's complicated about paying taxes on income? You have to learn the tax law, you have to account for all of your income, which may have come from multiple tenants (including the receipt and return of security deposits, pet fees, etc...). You have to account for all of your expenses...
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    Is it a good time to buy an investment property

    Excellent points. Taxes are also more complicated if you have a rental property. If you draw income from it, you are subject to tax.
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    Is it a good time to buy an investment property

    Here's a site that offers some good advice: www.nolo.com
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    Google vs. Yahoo for backtest data

    Thanks LOLTrader, good to know. Do you know of any kind of benchmark test that's been run that shows an apples-to-apples comparison of query performance between MS Access (Jet), MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and even Oracle? There's also a free version from MS called SQL Server Express and...
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    Google vs. Yahoo for backtest data

    If you're tracking 22,000 symbols and you want anything more periodic than EOD data, don't you need an ENORMOUS database? The market's open for 6.5 hours each day. Assume you've got hourly ticks. Assume you're only tracking 5,000 symbols instead of 22,000. Assume the market's active 280...
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    TrailingStop at Thinkorswim

    It may be that you placed a trailing stop order, which automatically turns into a market order when the stop price is reached. The market order can then be executed at a price lower than the current price. If they offer it, try a trailing stop limit order, which does not turn into a market...
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