do you believe "Scientist" has "over $100k" in his trading account?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Gordon Gekko, Dec 1, 2003.

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  1. Bob, does Cathy know you're looking for this?
     
    #81     Dec 5, 2003
  2. bobcathy1

    bobcathy1 Guest

    Bob said a man would be dead from dehydration from 52 orgasms.
    Hmm...guess I gotta rethink this.:D
     
    #82     Dec 5, 2003

  3. What man in his right mind would want to give a women 53 consecutive orgasms???? Hell, anything over 1 is taking time away from me:eek:

    what type of men do we have here?:confused: sex is about a man's pleasure not her's.:D
     
    #83     Dec 5, 2003
  4. bobcathy1

    bobcathy1 Guest

    Well, if you are not fun in bed.....think of all the sex you will NOT be getting......:eek:
     
    #84     Dec 5, 2003
  5. DTK

    DTK

    Tried that.
    Once they find out that you're good, there's no getting away.

     
    #85     Dec 5, 2003
  6. It's Friday evening, all the casinos are closed here, so I thought I would entertain myself, and possibly others, and follow up on my first post in this thread in which I claimed that GG would probably have to eat his shoe, stating that my reasoning could "be found in an exchange of posts in which both he (Scientist) and I participated". This exchange, together with my annotations in red, follow :

    Scientist presents the above partial quote from a post by Mark Hyman, and continues :
    I read the above post and thought to myself that this rate was too high, but then realized that Scientist, being from the land down under, where women glow and men plunder, must have his money with IB in Aussie dollars. Sure enough, after visiting IB's website, the math checked out 'cause the Aussie dollar was getting around 5% per annum on credit balances versus about 1% for the USD. So, I posted the following :
    and Scientist replied thusly :
    Sure this exhibits a degree of naivete concerning basic foreign exchange tenets, but left no doubt in my mind as to the veracity of his claim. Meanwhile ChartingMarkets, who was apparently busy charting markets and not following the discussion, posted the following :
    And here comes the clincher, a reply from none other than def :
    Here's the thread : http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=364854#post364854

    Read the flow of the discussion, and draw your own conclusions. Decision making under conditions of uncertainty - that's trading and that's life.
     
    #86     Dec 5, 2003
  7. DTK

    DTK

    Very nice.
    I wonder how Gordon wants his shoe prepared... :D:D:D


     
    #87     Dec 5, 2003
  8. i won't be eating it.

    i don't doubt Scientist lives in Australia, has an account with IB, or may be familiar with interest rates.
     
    #88     Dec 5, 2003
  9. Whoopee, Mr Subliminal; You are a dangerously smart guy to be reckoned with! You made your way onto my buddy list! :eek:

    See, that's why I would never claim to be a "genius" - As you can see there are some people around with extremely smart perceptions, and others with extremely good memory, and some with both. There certainly are people here that are much smarter than me, no doubt, and it would be very eery trying to fool them. This alone is a reason why I don't even try to lie, neither on a board nor in real life - It's just too dangerous (unless you're a politician of course). As Rearden Metal pointed out, Candle was very quickly exposed publicly on a big lie. With an ET membership of 20,000+ people, there's always gonna be a stink-dwarf who knows better and blows up the game, no matter what you tell people.

    Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is. - Sir Winston Churchill

    For what summarizes the "battle", most people just trolled around or didn't know what they're talking about, posted Bat Man pics, a few brought some interesting points, Rearden Metal was very smart, but then ended up tangling himself in the wrong web (trying to prove I'm not a jeweller = ouch), and the real dumb-trolls (Gordon Gekko and his boyfriend LongShot) brought nothing but their usual plethora of unsupported claims, lies, silly out-of-context-quotes, "piss-on" comments and "ROFL's", as expected and appropriate to their level of intellectual development.

    As for the subject of the discussion itself, I obviously just toyed around, admittedly lazy about "proving" the question of the thread. But realize: I was the only one sitting here with "insider information", actually knowing, so I wasn't exactly determined to prove a point, yet enjoying the conversation. If you're on the "right side", you just let time work for you. I wanted to leave it up to the participants to find proof, whichever side they're on, by using their brains or the search tool, the way Mr Sub did. I could have just posted a gif of the net liquid value of one of my accounts - but then you can never prove anything on an internet forum, you can always fake any kind of picture, printout, brokerage account or screenshot anyway - There is no way I could prove anything here, unless I had something like an independent link to Effron audited accounts, the way Dan Zanger did. But then, why would I need to spend all that money to prove anything? So again I wouldn't even have been able to a point... Besides, how much of a spoilsport can you be? :cool:

    Yet I'm pretty stoked at Mr Sub's reference - I didn't even realize myself that there was such a clear little hint anywhere on these forums... Like posting interest on one of my accounts! Well, hmmm. Tough lying with so many inquisitive noses around, isn't it? Shame about Gordy, though...

    Mind you, I had a laugh about my interest thing, though. I really was a bit naiive about that. I exchanged all of my USD into AUD, when predictions really favored that move (clear resistance break at 61.50 after several higher lows), yet looking at "credit interest" in IB's statement, didn't consider that this was actually the relative growth of AUD->USD.

    You can kick me about this, I really am as much of a forex expert as I am a diamond expert. Jeez, that deal, though... over 20%... Wish I'd leveraged that rather than just 1:1 exchange! Just look at where I got in, where we were when I made that post, and where AUD is now!!! But then - did I now make that money, or did I just not lose it? I think the latter is more applicable. Holy cow... I should get into forex a bit... I certainly should go for a holiday in the US sometime... It' obviously "very cheap" now! Less than a year ago, the USD was 1.70+, and now it's like 1.35 to the AUD... :eek:

    Anyway... How about a "proper" poll, anyway? Like "What do you believe is Scientist's net worth? Over 500K / 1.25M, 1.5M, 1.75M?"

    That'd be a much more "interesting" range. Not just trading accs now, but including real estate, business, metals, gem collection, car etc.
    I'd love to know where the ET'ers really say "stop"... :)

    Oh, before I forget all about you, Gordy: How do you prefer it? Al dente, al gusto? Would you like any sauce with the laces? Hot Salsa? Chilli Con Carne? Bolognaise? Carbonara? Marinari? I think Marinari's seafood taste would match beautifully with the "underlying"... :D

    Bon Appetit!
    -S
     
    #89     Dec 7, 2003
  10. bronks

    bronks

    I'm sure Sub is just thrilled to here that.

    It's not enough that you're such a blowhard, but are a conceited little twerp as well.
     
    #90     Dec 7, 2003
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