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Try Match.com – One Week Free Did I mention the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) which has had one of my laptops in a loop for 10 days? Today, I saw something quite extraordinary yet obvious: the importance of being in the right market at the right time. Regardless of where or what that market [...]

Magazineline.com It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative Global financial research. While most of [...]

Try Match.com – One Week Free I’ve been watching IVAN develop their technology for gas extraction from oil sands and shale rock. It’s heavy oil without the same environmental harm and carbon footprint left from present HTL technologies especially hydro-fracturing.  Their technology is 100% self sufficient from steam re-capture, hence an almost  ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT.  Ivanhoe owns proprietary technology which [...]

Free 10GB Photo Storage in the Cloud Verizon (NY: VZ) Wireless has informed the least amount of people, (i.e. those that ask), that their VCAST Program so aggressively being marketed around the world to support their new launch of phones DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS 7 64-BIT and the Rep I spoke with said her [...]

Although behavioral targeting has thrived by allowing marketers to offer ads that are customized based on the web surfer’s age, gender, location and online activities, in the immediate future not only will those variables be considered, but also the items the user may have been shopping for recently. For example, imagine you have searched for a specific bottle of wine from a shopping web site in the past couple of weeks, and were now on your favorite news site reading an article about foreign affairs. At the end of your article, you might see an ad from a wine merchant suggesting you take a look at their inventory and pricing. To go one step further in our example, the merchant that is serving you the ad has agreed to pay the advertising network a generous fee if that user clicks through and ends up purchasing a product. So the advertising network will be incentivized to track every single web user going through their network in a way that continually allows them to “guide” users to products that meet their real time interests. The convenience factor lies in that last term, “real time interests”.

Magazineline.com Great piece by Colbert discussing last hour sell programs triggered by algorithms:

Magazineline.com Week of October 27th: Wed p.m.- Yesterday, markets rallied 880 points. Today, a 300 point rally reversed to close almost flat. This is a very bullish sign. The euphoria became excessive because we had rallied almost 20% in 2 days. So the late day reversal was a definite shakeout of the fast money, weak [...]