“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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• Damn Interesting » Terror on Wall Street
  Wall Street soon became a symbol of patriotism in the eyes of the country, and stock trading came to be viewed as an act of defiance against the terrorists.
  (tags: Finance history terrorism wallstreet stocks)
• This Fall, it’s Cool Fares on American Airlines and American Eagle to Select Destinations in Bahamas, Caribbean and Latin America
  (tags: honduras airfare)
• The Singular Question Of Human vs. Machine Has a Spiritual Side
  read when wsj becomes free
  (tags: toread singularity futures)
• IOL: Man refuses R19m lottery win
  (tags: lottery)
• SourceForge : JasperReports
  (tags: chart development freeware java opensource programming software tools)

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

– Click here for today’s full list –

Here is a short chess game I just played online as black that was fun:

1. g3 e5 2. Bg2 c6 3. d4 exd4 4. Qxd4 d5 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Nf3 c5 7. Qd1 Nc6 8. h3 Be6 9. e3 Qc7 10. O-O O-O-O 11. Re1 Bd6 12. Kh2 Nh5 13. Ng5 Bxg3+ 14. Kh1 Bxf2 15. Nxe6 Ng3+ 16. Kh2 Nf1+ 17. Kh1 Qh2# 0-1

You can view it online here.

• Homemaker-traders in Japan sweat as markets reel
  via teresa lo
  (tags: trading stocks)
• Intrade Trading Exchange
  odds of recession in 2008
  (tags: economy trading stocks chart)
• Peter Thiel Explains How to Invest in the Singularity
  I think I will make a fortune in nanotech stocks someday
  (tags: AI economics money singularity futures Thiel)

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

-Andy Warhol

It’s interesting that with less than a couple of weeks left in the regular season, as of right now the first place teams for the East, Central and West divisions of the American League have identical records, 90 wins and 62 losses (which also happens to be the best record in baseball):

Boston is playing a game right now, so when they finish this will no longer be true.

Man, today my brain was somewhere else. Maybe I was paying too much attention to the Indians game this afternoon (they swept the series over the 2nd place tigers). I don’t know what it was. The entire day, until about 5 minutes ago, I thought it was Tuesday for some reason. And you’re not going to believe this, but I thought it was only 1:17pm when the market closed! I had many open positions and when everything stopped moving, I was like “what is going on??” I checked my internet connection and everything. I couldn’t figure it out.
I have a new computer and Vista is so unstable - the clock in the bottom right hand corner just stops sometimes. I didn’t realize how much I rely on the time in the toolbar at the bottom. It didn’t even occur to me to wonder why it was staying at 1:17 for so long. I just kept thinking, “ok, I’ve still got about 3 hours before the close…”
Here is a screen capture of the last sales window combined with the toolbar clock:

Needless to say it was my worst day of the month.