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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." (J Edgar Hoover)
"There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?"
Erasmus of Rotterdam 1469-1536, Adages IV.i.1]
The new Democrat majority looks to follow in the Republican footsteps and dishonor veterans. So much for clowns trying to make a distinction, as The Dems are taking the lead in pushing through The NAU. They are already launching plans to ease new citizenship.
I hope everyone now understands why The Second Amendment is there. It protects all other rights. It is not there so The NRA types can gun down Bambi for sport and strew the forest with his carcass.
Washington is littered with traitors. The Iraq War is a red herring. It has one set of sheeple focusing on another set of sheeple while the tyranny consolidates power.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
UPDA had some good intraday action yesterday afternoon. It still has, at least, some mild play left. At these volume levels, you all know that mild can turn into wild. Snick! Snick!
vincentkuba: it was a nice pattern, this afternoon, for sure. Market Makers make their money on volume. They look to encourage volume, not suppress it. They play games for sure, but those are relatively minor to the scheme of things. I can't think of a single trade, over the last six years, that has involved MMs, that I didn't think that I got a fair market. You will notice that around 3:00 p.m. today, there were a number of buys on bid that went through via AON limit orders. This was about 15-20 minutes after a very large sell, at bid. Then the bid and ask rose up quickly again. The market was digesting and ready for more.
I suggest you know and understand the next points of resistance and have an exit strategy, even if you plan on coming back in. To see .20 tomorrow or Thursday would not be a surprise. However, .50 is just not foreseeable in any sound and unemotional charting.
Sweet action on UPDA today.
No one can blame the MMs now. Yeah, baby!
You can all thank me for the momo. Snick! Snick! Run puppy, run!
UPDA is picking up some momo. A nice little play.
janice shell: ever hear of William J Casey and Capital Cities?
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil
system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.
A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul." Mahatma Gandhi
Okay, everyone admit it: The Secret Stock Files has brought us all together. LOL
rover_az: welcome, you will find lots of helpful and informative stuff in the header. Like stocks, do your own DD. Then with what you know, take action. The immediate brush fire is stopping The NAU, then we must be turning our full attention back to revoking The Federal Reserve.
Look at the time of the PR and then check the intraday trading.
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Subjex Corporation Announces Intent to Spin-Off Software Unit and Merge It With To-Be-Formed Entity of Plexus Corporation, a Worldwide Training Organization
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2006 3:50 PM - Market Wire
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Dec 18, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Subjex Corporation (SBJX) today announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Plexus Corporation, a designer, developer and provider of online, classroom and customized training programs. Under the terms of the non-binding letter, Subjex will form a new company that will own the exclusive rights to SubjexCSR Software for education and training purposes and then will spin that company off through a distribution to shareholders.
Immediately following the spin-off, the new company is expected to merge with a company formed by Plexus which will own the exclusive rights to Plexus's Learning Suites Software. The resulting company, which is intended and expected to be publicly traded, will launch and maintain a website designed to allow users to develop, upload, distribute and be compensated for corporate training and education courses and courseware. The site will initially focus on companies that supply to the aerospace, automotive, environmental and healthcare industries and are looking to identify certain and specific training, educational and quality certifications that they are required to secure on their and their employees' behalf. Plexus's Learning Suites Software, which was developed for companies of all sizes and is currently being used by Boeing Company, the world's leading aerospace company, and SubjexCSR Software are expected to provide the architecture for the site.
Andrew Hyder, Chief Executive Officer of Subjex, stated, "We are delighted and excited to make today's announcement. SubjexCSR software will be a key element to helping make the Learning Suites Software the worldwide leader in user-generated courseware for the corporate training market. The new company will emerge with significant contracts with some of the world's largest and most successful manufacturers and will enjoy important relationships with some of the world's most prestigious training and certifying bodies. Additionally, today's announcement should allow Subjex to focus its energies and efforts to build a dynamic, profitable business in other areas, including the exciting initiatives we have going with SubjexFMS. We expect that our shareholders will realize significant value and appreciation with stakes in two exciting companies."
Alex Chong, Chief Executive Officer of Plexus, stated, "SubjexCSR software will enable the Plexus Learning Suites to emerge as the de facto standard in online, user-generated courseware, enabling courseware developers throughout the world to get their products in front of the world's greatest companies. We were sincerely delighted to find this unique and intuitive software and excited to bring it to the market as a publicly traded company."
Details of the company expected to be formed and spun-off have yet to be finalized, but officials of Subjex and Plexus expect to work out those details by early 2007. Subjex shareholders will receive a thorough description of the spin-off, the subsequent merger and the structure, officers and business of the new company in connection with the distribution of its shares late in mid-2007. Until then, ownership in Subjex common stock will be the only way to own the business expected to be formed.
Plexus Corporation, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, designs, develops and delivers online, classroom, and customized training programs, as well as software tools and applications, to support process-based management, learning and improvement in all types of organizations. Its training materials are written in numerous languages and its training methods are conducted through on-site sessions, via interactive CD (eFMEA), online and with the aid of process management software. For more information visit the company's website at www.plexusintl.com.
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Subjex Corporation is an innovative Artificial Intelligence Development Company. The products SubjexCSR and SubjexME facilitate meaningful text-based humanlike conversations with website visitors and students, while SubjexFMS forecasts the DJIA with a current accuracy of over 80%. For more information and to try the technology for free visit the website at http://www.subjex.com or call 952-931-0501.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Acts of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove correct.
For more information contact:
Subjex Corporation
Andrew D. Hyder
C.E.O.
866-777-0052
952-931-0501
Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=BC0057F2DC2165B5
MeritView Partners LLC
William P. Bartkowski
612.605.8616
Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=AB5FF14FC7BD9639
SOURCE: Subjex Corporation
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My dear friends for freedom, has anyone studied out this?
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The best 911 explanation available- John Ray, 12/17/06 Message List
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John Ray
Sun Dec 17, 2006 22:41
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The best 911 explanation available
...But that's not the most amazinf insight that Shayler has. Even more than this is how 911 was a failed operation. Failed? But it was perfect! The buildings came down!
Yes... but we didn't see the entire game. It's been staring us in the face all this time but it took a brilliant mind with inside information (access to the most classified of intelligence documents) to piece it together. Shayler really is that intelligent. Spend 5 minutes with him and you will see what I mean.
Well, the end game was this: Flight 93 was to land on the Whitehouse. You see, under US law at the time, if that happened, it would be martial law in the US and under those conditions, the entire 911 plot could have been completely tidied up, all the evidence buried. We would not be able to have the 911 truth movement today. Anyone claiming that it was an inside job would be so far out on the extremes of conspiracy theory that they would never be taken seriously and certainly must less of the material available today would have been available to the truth movement.
Now we KNOW that this was planned (martial law) because on the 10th Nov 2001 it had been put in the MSM! There were articles published to the American people about how martial law could be enacted in the event of the US government (Washington DC) being attacked directly. So the US population was actually PRIMED for that.
Not only that, but the antrax attacks DID attack the US government, only it was too late then to declare martial law so Plan B didn't bail them out either. And worse, the antrax was traced by the FBI to US laboratories where on a few select personnel had access to it so it was undeniably and inside job. Which is why the headlines claiming that the anthrax was Iraqi played enough to imprint the mantra in the population's minds, then the entire anthrax hoax was made to quietly and quickly disappear.
So what went wrong?
The shooting down of 93 was a renegade action by a true American hero officer and the pilot that did the deed. The order to shoot down WAS NOT GIVEN. I.e. The inaction was there to guarantee the Whitehouse would be hit. Instead of the lies in the movie "United 93", the real hero of 911 was indeed associated with flight 93 coming down but it was not some fictious all American man in the street blued eyed boys. The real hero remains unknown. Anonymous. Denied. The real hero was the officer that saw the no-shoot as a NORAD botch and did his job and had that aircraft shot down.
The entire planet owes that man its thanks. I wonder if he even lived through the day? They may well have shot him on sight.
Now, I haven't researched this but I am willing to bet good money that if you go back in the news archives, you will find that NONE of the important people were in the Whitehouse on 911. You may even find Bush opponents WERE in the Whitehouse that day!
Not only that, but as Shayler points out, Jeb Bush jumped the gun. He declared martial law too soon in Florida. There was no reason for that declaration and it's one of those key facts that the 911 truth movement has missed. It's key fact for prosecuting as conspiracy to the murders, Jeb Bush as well as the usual suspects in the Administration. It's the smoking gun against Jeb Bush being an insider.
But the "failure" in NORAD and the other points of control, i.e. the things that were meant to allow 93 to hit the Whitehouse were undone by a quick-thinking officer who ordered the plane to be taken down. 93 was, to use Shayler's term, a key failure in the plot. A cockup that, to quote Shayler "they simply didn't expect or plan for this".
When you realise this truth, suddenly many of the loose ends click into place. Suddenly, so much makes sense. So many of the Bush "incompetancies" are shown to be not incompetance, but quickstepping out a contingency. The inept Zionist neoCon scrambling and bumbling of the invasion is suddenly very clearly a group of well-rehearsed, well-disciplined, well-planned people wrongfooted by the most unexpected of cockups.
Flight 93 is where 911 went wrong for them. And one of the reasons that the propaganda around that plane was in overdrive. United 93 the film, the stories of the heros, the only "black box that survived"... all these were disctractions. Very clever distractions. You see, by keeping the "was it shot down" debate going as an initial catch point for the sheep, backed up by the "how come the mobile phones worked?" as the catch-point for those not fooled by the first catch-point, no-one got thinking about the actual flight itself and the key role it played. No-one has been thinking about the possibility that it was a monumental cockup that the plotters simply hadn't accounted for. No-one has been thinking "what if it had reached its target, what would have happened?". And that's clever human manipulation for you. That's really clever brains thinking at high speed to bail out of a catastrophe.
But 93 went badly wrong for the plotters. Because it gave that little window of opportunity for the truth movement to see the faults in the story, see the holes in the evidence and start to question the official line. Martial law was meant to ensure that no questions could be asked, no evidence could survive and no-one would have the time to ask because of what was meant to immediately follow. The sequence of events would have been so swift that we would be focussed now on the fallout of the WMD use that was almost certainly in the plan. 911 would be a minor footnote that no-one would be interested in by now.
Had 93 reached "mission complete". Had martial law been declared, complete control over the media, release of information and the cleanup (getting rid of the evidence) would have happened and bingo! The entire 911 plot would have played out and the world right now would have been a completely different place. Iran, Syria, Iraq, North Korea, Afghanistan probably would have had nuclear weapons used against them to simply "solve the problem". With the US government "wiped out", no-one would have either held the Bush crowd accoutable nor have the ability to even if they tried.
Which explains another anomally about the plot: How the Zionist neoCons so totally screwed up the invasions without an exit strategy. The visible evidence being the mess that Iraq is in with the US having its butt kicked.
See, they never needed an exit strategy because they were never going to invade the way that they were forced to. That was NOT the plan. The plan was to use the overwhelming force of American super weapons in quick, lethal blows that the world would have had to stand by and accept because the US government itself would have been directly attacked, possibly with key opponents to the Bush WH wiped out as part of the deal. Who would stop the US? Indeed, who would even BLAME the US?
Their original plan was perfect. It was a good plan. I was a perfect plan.
There was no need to plant a passport. There was no need to explain 911. If you don't explain, then there are no holes in the story because there simply is no story. Your cover is perfect. No 911 commission, no NIST scrambling to prove the impossible, no questions about WTC7. Nothing to attack the Zionist neoCon agenda with because no accountability given because under martial law, the US government would be unassailable.
And that also explains those massive FEMA detention camps that GLP was so hyped up about many years ago. We were all mystified as to why they were being built. Now it's clear! Even under martial law there would have been those who didn't agree with the Zionist neoCons. Those detention camps would have been filled with these dissidents.
Sit back and think of all the odd behaviour that has puzzled us about the BushCo. How they seem to have wrongfooted themselves all the time. And think about how things would have been different if Flight 93 had hit its target. It all makes perfect sense.
Behind the scenes there must have been frantic redrawing of plans. Years and years of careful, step-by-step detail was trashed when that missile hit 93. And because of that, errors were made. And because of THAT, we have the truth movement and the very real chance to expose this hoax and nail the guilty parties.
Which could be why Bush bought into Paraguay.
Also, look at where Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Bremer and all the other PNAC players were on the day. Look at their actions. In the light of what was EXPECTED to happen, it all makes sense. Perfect, perfect sense.
This is a startling revelation by Shayler and an absolute lynchpin in understanding 911 and what has followed. It explains so much, ties up so many loose ends and just fits the picture so well, even down to the reactions of the people involved, that it really is the only credible missing piece.
And more still, it's clear that the recycling deal must have been planned months before for the steel shipments from the 911 demolition. All that executed perfectly. But rather than it being a secret kept "for security reasons" away from any public knowledge for decades to come, maybe even centuries, it's now in the open. And one more item to point at the guilty parties.
For me personally, it's the effectiveness of the psyops of Flight 93 that gets me. How the diversion has worked so extremely well, How the realisation of how 911 was actually a massive cockup simply hasn't featured anywhere up until now.
That makes me shake my head in admiration for the brains that pulled it together. Real professionals. Nasty, evil, but so very clever.
Originally posted at: [link to godlikeproductions.com]
Welcome to Shayler.com
Welcome to the official website of David Shayler - former MI5 officer and ... In August 1997, David Shayler, a former MI5 officer, wrote a series of ...
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skitters: actually it does, if you go back to my post that started the discussion. It makes CHID look pretty good.
tryoty: not true; what he does do is police folks posting the same message to more than two sites and posts that have nothing to do with the stock or the discussion in hand.
Look at the headers on this thread and others here on IHub. Could this be done anywhere else? Matt is pretty confident of this site and isn't fearful of links to "competing sites." I mean, does anyone here think that RB is superior to here?
farml1234: thanks for your post. TGA looks fair for a buy and hold, even though its an AMEX. It doesn't have that much play upward, right now for trading.
BTW, its PE is over 12.
Any good reason for the recent surge? Honest answers only, please.
Explosive ruling expected in Padilla case
Ruling in case of terror suspect may be explosive
Sunday, December 17, 2006
RICHARD A. SERRANO Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Miami will soon make one of the most important rulings in the Bush administration's war on terrorism and decide whether to publicly explore evidence that an accused terrorist was brutally mistreated for years inside a one-man isolation cell.
The allegations involve Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen once portrayed as one of the most dangerous al-Qaida operatives ever arrested. Padilla's lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke to set him free because of the abuse they say he suffered.
Though federal judges rarely dismiss criminal charges before trial, the allegations are so extreme that they may prompt Cooke to hold a pretrial hearing in what would be the first public court examination into how detainees were handled after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Padilla's lawyers also hope to shut down his case by proving that his incarceration as an "enemy combatant" at a Navy brig for more than three years without charges has left him incompetent to stand trial.
Any hearing before the trial, scheduled for next month, could prove explosive, as defense lawyers are leaning toward putting Padilla on the witness stand. That too would be a first - a Sept. 11-era detainee testifying about his treatment.
He has told his lawyers and mental-health experts that he was held without sunlight, adequate food or a clock, and was injected with truth-serum drugs to coerce him to talk. At times, he said, his wrists and torso were chained to the cell floor.
Further heightening the drama is a defense request to question military officials about conditions at the brig. Some officials have expressed concerns in written reports that Padilla and two other enemy combatants held in the brig outside Charleston, S.C., were abused.
Federal prosecutors repeatedly have denied that Padilla was mistreated. "Padilla's allegations of torture have no merit whatsoever," prosecutors said in court filings.
Lesser charges:
Padilla was arrested in 2002 on suspicion of trying to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the United States. The Department of Justice, led by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, castigated Padilla as a major terrorist menace but eventually scaled back its assessment and filed lesser charges of conspiracy.
Prosecutors say they can prove he was part of a "North American terror support cell" that sent money and supplies to terrorists in Bosnia and Chechnya. The government is urging the judge to deny Padilla's dismissal request without airing the claims in a court hearing.
The judge, appointed to the bench by President Bush, has scheduled a meeting Monday with both sides, and could rule then on the torture and competency questions.
Should she grant a hearing into the allegations, that would mark a major victory for defense lawyers and human rights activists who have said the administration routinely violated the constitutional rights of detainees arrested after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
Padilla, 36, was born in Brooklyn, raised in Chicago and, after embracing Islam in south Florida, moved to Egypt where he allegedly became involved with terrorist groups.
He was taken into custody in May 2002 at the airport in Chicago after stepping off a plane from Zurich, Switzerland. Law enforcement officials said his arrest broke up a plot in which Padilla was sent back to attack targets in the United States.
In June 2002, Bush designated him an "enemy combatant" and the military tucked him away in the Navy brig.
Say does anyone know of a profitable company with a PE under 5 that has insiders buying up shares?
Right now, as you read this, 17 Million people are having SEX!
And you're on the computer!
Who said, "I don't care about the American people, I own Congress."
???????
willy1015: shhhh, for crying out loud, you're spilling secrets.
Is it in the water in Texas or does every poli that comes out of the State have some serious malfunction? http://wwwc.house.gov/reyes/
Propaganda speak; propaganda do. My, oh my, if they had only stuck to truth, then they wouldn't have to remember what lies were being told.
greatone: the next 10Q will be in about two months. Have you read the previous ones?
atockkcots06: now how many quarters has it been in the black and how many more will it be? Oh, that's right, you've demonstrated a number of times that you're not interested in the truth or logic. No problem: it's a free country; you're free to lie all you want. However, I'll just keep warning folks about you and they'll figure out your agenda easy enough.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Experts have warned all year that a slowing U.S. economy and rising borrowing costs would lead to an increase in bad loans by homeowners and other borrowers.
``We think the sky may be falling,'' said Mark Fitzgibbon, director of research at Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP. ``Credit quality has been deteriorating for two quarters and we think the pace of deterioration will accelerate this quarter.''
HSBC, the world's third largest bank by market value after Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., on Tuesday said U.S. lending results may worsen from the third quarter, when higher loan losses crimped overall revenue growth.
``We've seen more data coming into the fourth quarter and there is a weakening,'' Finance Director Douglas Flint said.
In 2003, HSBC paid about $14.8 billion for Household International Inc., which lent to many people with below- average credit histories. It has since evolved into HSBC Finance Corp.
The bank's North American operations, which include HSBC Finance, last year generated 31 percent of total profit, but 65 percent of bad loans.
Most major U.S. lenders will report fourth-quarter results in January.
Many have cautioned that loan losses will increase as economic growth moderates and bankruptcy filings rise to more normal levels. Some may set aside more reserves for losses.
Rising risk and shrinking rewards are why H&R Block Inc. (HRB.N), KeyCorp (KEY.N), National City Corp. (NCC.N) and others are selling or scaling back their subprime mortgage lending businesses, which lend to people with weaker credit histories.
H&R Block's Option One unit, which the tax preparer is trying to sell, posted a $39 million fiscal second-quarter pretax loss, compared with a year-earlier $48.8 million profit.
Other lenders are taking precautions.
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC.N) on Tuesday began an education program to help subprime borrowers handle their finances. The No. 2 mortgage lender, like many rivals, has long denied charges it unfairly burdens such borrowers with onerous rates and fees.
ARM WORRIES
Still, what particularly worries analysts is how many borrowers will skip payments as rates on many adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) reset higher in 2007.
Many borrowers obtained ARMs earlier this decade, when borrowing costs were at or near multi-decade lows, helping them afford costlier homes as prices soared.
About one-third of U.S. single-family home loans in 2004 and 2005 were ARMs, up from 12 percent in 2001, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
Experts, however, now expect delinquencies to rise as home prices stabilize or decline and many consumers find themselves unwilling or unable to take on much more debt.
``I've never seen a soft landing in 53 years,'' said Angelo Mozilo, chief executive of Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest mortgage lender, cautioned in July.
Sandler's Fitzgibbon noted that benchmark short-term rates have risen 4.25 percentage points since 2004, while oil prices have more than doubled over three years.
``Consumers are stressed,'' he said.
This stress may lead to more bankruptcy filings, which government data released Tuesday show have begun to rise from a 10-year low.
``The amount of consumer credit and mortgage debt outstanding drives a lot of filings and those are rising,'' said Robert Lawless, a University of Illinois College of Law professor.
Vexari: Toll Brothers just reported a serious drop in earnings from the same quarter, last year, yesterday.
By: stoneranger0
04 Dec 2006, 12:33 PM EST
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Monday, December 04, 2006
Three Relentless Steps You Can Take Now Toward Becoming A Better Trader
One of the goals of my book Enhancing Trader Performance was to figure out what makes successful performers tick--in any field of endeavor. What I learned in researching the field was that talent--inborn abilities--are necessary for success, but not sufficient. It's how people channel their talents by structuring their learning processes (i.e., their building of skills) that ultimately determines whether or not they become elite performers. Here are three straightforward ways you can structure your learning to make the most of your talents:
1) Keep score. Relentlessly. When Lance Armstrong's performance team works with him, no aspect of performance is ignored. They measure his stance in the bike to minimize wind resistance; they measure his pedaling frequency to maximize his speed and minimize his effort; and they tweak the design of the bike to achieve every possible edge. His cycling performance may be art, but behind it is plenty of science. So it is in other performance domains, from NASCAR to chess to ballet: the greats study what they do to constantly improve. Take a look at the performance metrics that professional traders collect to figure out their strengths and weaknesses. They figure out how they perform in rising, falling, and flat markets; they evaluate their performance as a function of being long or short and as a function of time of day. Keeping score builds the motivation to continuously improve, but it also tells you which improvements to make. Track every trade you make: How much did it go against you while you were in the trade? How much did it go your way after you exited? How could you have recognized that it was a winner (so that you could have scaled in with more size) or a loser (so that you could have exited with minimal loss)? The really great performers make themselves a subject of study.
2) Study the market. Relentlessly. There's a reason why the great basketball and football coaches review game tapes obsessively with their teams. There's also a reason why chess grandmasters play and replay games from past tournaments. So much of performance--especially in trading--boils down to pattern recognition, and so much of pattern recognition boils down to multiple, high-quality exposures to the marketplace. A program that I use called Market Delta breaks down trades by their size and by whether they were transacted at the market bid or offer. That way, we can see if large traders are leaning to the buy or sell side. A replay feature in the program enables us to review each market day and see how the buying or selling unfolded. This provides us with many more of those high-quality market exposures than we could ever hope to get from simple live trading. In my book, I mention a learning technique used by many of the most successful traders I've known: they videotape their trading and then review the tapes after the close. It's a great way to review what the markets did--and how you responded. After a while, the patterns jump out at you.
3) Read. Relentlessly. Particularly for the independent trader, trading can be an extremely isolating activity. It's easy to get locked in your own head, your own ideas. If you look at the life histories of expert performers in various fields, you find that most of them have not been isolated. They have had mentors at various points in their careers to help them learn and grow. How can you pick the brains of the world's greatest traders and investors? Books and blogs offer one important avenue. True, there are many fluff books and self-absorbed blogs, but there are a few written by the pros that are worth their weight in gold. Right now, I'm reading Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny. It's a wonderful collection of interviews that gets inside the heads of global macro traders. I'm also reading Ken Fisher's new text, The Only Three Questions That Count. He explodes a number of market myths and models a way of thinking about markets that has led him to consistent success as a money manager. Take a look at blogs written by Barry Ritholtz and Bill Cara; read the extensive Q&A sessions posted by Charles Kirk in his Members section. You may not agree with all their conclusions, but you'll learn how they think about markets. That is mentorship-by-observation.
It takes a relentless pursuit of excellence to become excellent: that is what I learned from my performance research. You can only sustain such a pursuit if you truly love what you're doing; if it captivates your very being. If you're not relentless in your pursuit of trading success, perhaps it's not that you need discipline or motivation. Perhaps trading is not the domain in which you were meant to excel. What my daughter Devon taught me is that somehow, somewhere there is a kind of productive activity you were meant to do. And when you find it, you will be relentless, because you want to be doing nothing else.
posted by Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
willy1015: yes and folks are missing that a big fish can handle the 3G business better, as far as cash flow; having leverage for timely payments. The buyer saw a goldmine that only a handful of managers/owners could properly mine. Even in China, there is no such thing as something for nothing. The seller parted with his own gold mine, that he thinks so highly of, that he got 150 million futuristic shares of. Hmmmm, who has been missing that? Is the glass half full or half empty?
“The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.” (Adolph Hitler)
For those that haven't already done so, here is extremely appropriate information. http://www.hawkassociates.com/files/QandA_Guoxi.pdf
Opportunities sometimes come in the form of a disaster.
highline: the market reaction is very harsh. While the time to buy is when the blood is in the streets, there is some confusion over this poorly written PR. When the smoke clears, it could fabulous news or it could be very stinky news. Since you're very new to the OTCBB, I'd sit this one out a bit.
The Next Bite at Freedoms
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=15123307
Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech
By RILEY YATES Union Leader Staff 16 hours, 40 minutes ago
MANCHESTER – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.
GINGRICH
Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.
"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade," said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994.
Gingrich spoke to about 400 state and local power brokers last night at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment award dinner, which fetes people and organizations that stand up for freedom of speech.
Gingrich sharply criticized campaign finance laws he charged were reducing free speech and doing little to fight attack advertising. He also said court rulings over separation of church and state have hurt citizens' ability to express themselves and their faith.
Last night's event, held at the Radisson Hotel-Center of New Hampshire, honored a Lakes Region newspaper and a former speaker of the House for work in favor of free expression.
The Citizen of Laconia was given the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award, which is named after the longtime President and Publisher of the Union Leader Corporation, owner of New Hampshire's statewide newspaper.
The Citizen scrutinized the Newfound Area School Board beginning last year over a series of e-mail discussions held before public meetings. It also used the right-to-know law to uncover costly decisions by the town of Tilton this year.
Executive Editor John Howe said the decision to pursue the stories led to at least one advertiser canceling its business with the paper.
"We try to practice what we preach, even if it costs us business," Howe said. "And it has and it will in the future.
Also honored was Marshall Cobleigh, former House speaker and a longtime aide to former Gov. Meldrim Thomson.
Cobleigh introduced an amendment to the state Constitution defending free speech. He also helped shepherd the state's 1967 right-to-know law through the Legislature.
Gingrich's speech focused on the First Amendment, but in an interview beforehand, he also hit upon wide-ranging topics.
Gingrich said America has "failed" in Iraq over the past three years and urged a new approach to winning the conflict. The U.S. needs to engage Syria and Iran and increase investment to train the Iraqi army and a national police force, he said. "How does a defeat for America make us safer?" Gingrich said. "I would look at an entirely new strategy." He added: "We have clearly failed in the last three years to achieve the kind of outcome we want."
Political parties in Presidential primary states should host events that invite candidates from both parties to discuss issues, said Gingrich, who criticized the sharpness of today's politics.
Gingrich said voters unhappy with the war, the response to Hurricane Katrina and pork barrel spending were the main drive behind the GOP's rejection at the polls. But he argued Republicans would have retained the Senate and just narrowly lost the House if President Bush had announced the departure of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld before, instead of after, the election.
Gingrich said he will not decide whether he is running for President until September 2007.
The event last night was sponsored by the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications. The school was founded in 1999 to promote journalism and other forms of communication.
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I Sell Homes: there has not any defined resistance, right now, except the topping of the upper Bollinger Band. That's how strong this has been.
A proposed project for anyone that reads and frequents this board: the similarities and parallels of the empowerment of Nazi Germany and the present administration situation.
Both leaders were satanists.
Both leaders conducted terrorists actions on their citizenry.
Both leaders were backed by the Bush family.
Both leaders grabbed extreme power through radical changes the the government.
Both leaders proposed a New World Order to last 1,000 years.
Both leaders attacked weaker nations to advance their agenda.
So lets add to this and refine it and use it as a tool on The Web.