It's not a "free market". Not by any stretch of the imagination. We live under corporate socialism. Individuals are left to fend for themselves...
The Argentine economy is booming right now on oil extraction and foreign investment, made particularly attractive by an artificially low peso....
Hi all, I'm looking to meet up with other traders in San Francisco. PM me if you're interested in grabbing a beer or a coffee and talking...
Another data point: The United States itself has only $41 billion of currency reserves, less than Nigeria, Indonesia, or Poland, and smaller...
All civil comments are welcome! ***** The dollar is devaluing. Treasury CEO Paulson and ECB head Trichet are both fine with this, according...
MattF - I imagine the broker who put the papers in front of that lady didn't exactly go into details beyond "you'll get $24,000 for signing here."...
Cashmoney - This is precisely what I'm trying to figure out - how to view retracements at a given level and in a given situation. On some...
The S&P couldn't penetrate the 38.2%, but it had no problem with 23.6%, which does not seem to have been a significant brake on price action at...
The S&P open yesterday and today were both at the 38.2% retracement of its recent high to recent low. Today we got a huge selloff. Prices seem...
I think a correction is long overdue. The market has been blowing off mediocre economic numbers for months. The trade deficit is still gigantic....
My observations: I have a MacBook Pro dual core 2.15 ghz system with 2 gigs of RAM and the latest TWS and Java available. Although quotes...
It's true -- programming is all 1's and 0's, it either works or it doesn't. Likewise, your house either stays up, or it collapses. You either win...
Why do people always want discount programming? Do people not view it as "real" work because it's "just typing"? Programming is extremely...
It's a very interesting time for this sector indeed. I've found some interesting leads in the Nasdaq "Clean Edge Liquid Series Index" at...
Anyone got any favorites? Or strong feelings on the sector as a whole, one way or another? It seems to me that, taken as a sector, it can only...
Prices are holding flat in San Francisco. Stuff sells, but not as fast anymore. There's a lot of noise about throwing up some more new high-rise...
Very interesting, thanks for the info. R
Suppose the last trade is at 105, and there are 20 bids at 100. If I have a limit order in place to buy, say, 1 contract at 100, I'm bid #21....
What this whole immigration debate exposes is that, under capitalism, even the laws are secondary to the overarching goal of accumulating ever...
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