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    Small Form Factor PC or laptop ?

    Micro PCs are even smaller than Shuttle I believe. Check out www.jadetec.com. Advantage of these is that I understand you can "Stack-em", so if you want a cluster type system with loads of memory and processing power you can achieve it, or alternatively have a number of seperate systems.
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    Multiple monitor and Graphics card Q

    I believe matrox are one of the best dual-head graphic cards. I have the p650 which works brilliantly.
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    Originary Interest

    I think I may have worked this out at a high level. Any views welcome. Assume we have a scale of 1-10 of value assigned to want satisfaction, with 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest. 1) If people value near future want satisfaction @ 3 and remote future want satisfaction @ 8 then we...
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    Originary Interest

    I'm struggling to understand what this is in "plain english". The quote I have from Mises is: "Originary Interest is the ratio of the value assigned to want-satisfaction in the immediate future and the value assigned want satisfaction in remote periods in the future." What does this ratio...
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    Guaranteed money on Oil?

    Cheers for the info, but he has already made £14k+ with this approach this year (i.e. within the last month). My friend has only held to options for a matter of a couple of weeks in both cases.
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    Guaranteed money on Oil?

    Cheers for the info, but he has already made £14k+ with this approach this year (i.e. within the last month). My friend has only held to options for a matter of a couple of weeks in both cases.
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    How to get formally qualified

    Thanks ktm That tells me the exams to take and their format as well as cost. What I now need to know is how and what to study for them.
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    Guaranteed money on Oil?

    A friend of mine has for the last 2 years made a fair amount of money (£8000+ last year and £14000+ this) from buying options at this time of year, based on the expectation that the price of oil increases as the US residents gear up for vacations over easter etc. Now, my view is that this...
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    How to get formally qualified

    Can someone please explain to me what the formal Commodity, (or any other trading specific), qualifications are, who certifies them and most importantly how one attains them and where one studies for them? Thanks in advance. Mutts
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    Inter-relationship of Bonds, Equities, Futures etc

    From reading books like Pit Bull and Trader Vic one area that I need to learn more about is the relationship between the different financial instruments on the macro and international level. For example, a socialist government is elected in country X so expect the following broad shift of...
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    RSI 25 Explosions System?

    How do you know it is based on conditional probability?
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    Historic 15 minute Bar Charts with Vol

    Is volume included? I've not managed to upload into charting yet? Mutts
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    Historic 15 minute Bar Charts with Vol

    Thanks AmigaSearch Very useful - I've downloaded 2003 to date. Very cheap as well. How about the mini-dow data anyone? Regards Neil
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    Historic 15 minute Bar Charts with Vol

    Does anybody know where or how I can obtain this information for the ES & DJ mini's (or full contracts). I'd like to back-test my strategy over say, the last 12 months. I suspect that I will have to do it manually, but thats fine, as long as I have the 15 min bar charts and the volume...
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    Relationship between an Index and Options?

    Hi Can anybody explain this to me, or point me to a site/ book etc. I've read that looking at the options market is used by some traders as another indicator when trading index futures. Thanks Mutts
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    Trading Hours

    Thanks, so are Globex and a/c/e 24x7?
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    Best Book on Money Management?

    Any views? I'm thinking Van Tharp (Trade your way to financial freedom) or Elder (Come into my Trading Room).
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    Trading Hours

    Hi Apologies up front for the simplicity of this question. What are the "real" trading hourse for, say the DOW and emini S&P. I currently use a spreadbet account for my first foray into trading and am confused about the actual times when I can trade these index futures contracts...
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    Sun Tzu Helps How?

    HarryT I'm not sure what Deming and TQM have to do with Sun Tzu etc. but I'm prepared to be enlightened Mutts
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    Sun Tzu Helps How?

    ChrisRT, No I have not read the Lundell book. I did however read the Krause(?) book on applying the art of war to business. That one wasn't much use as it was too high level. At what level is the Lundell book aimed? Mutts
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