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It never made sense as to why you would need so much science in a field where investing and trading is an art half of the time.

There are many people who believe arts are just sciences we haven't worked out the rules for yet.




By art you mean inside information, or who has the money--connections to get light sentences when caught--unless the government wants to really send a message? "Take it easy guys! There's not enough SEC employees to catch you, but don't be a blatant fool. Do your insider trading like your daddy did, at social functions--inconspicuously?

(Actually--I know what you're getting at. My luck in the stock market is usually so wrong, I just just decided to become a contrarian investor--when I have the money to gamble.)

Their is some science in HFT, and diversification!

I feel the next big scandal in the market will be the viewing of dataa--search engines have on on financial traders? )They map every IP address. They know what what investment houses are searching for! I don't think I could not look at that data, and place my order?)

Janet--raise those rates. They are hurting the poor and middle class. I'm tired of no interest on my cd. I'm tired of bank fees.(those bastards will proabbly still change fees when interest rates increase?). I love the health care Obama, but this free money is only helping the 1 percent. You have helped them enough, and it's not trickling down?

I wanted to put my last few thousand on PayPal. I this it will go up. I might check it out tomorrow? (I think it will go up because of name recognition? Not becuse it's better than anyone else?). "I need to send money grandson, should I use PayPal, like I did years ago! Yes--grandma!).




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