Will Obamacare pass the senate before the end of June?
Intrade is a popular internet trading service that allows you to bet on anything from tiger woods returning to golf to Obama passing healthcare. According to Intrade Obamacare for the first time has broke the 50% mark for passing before the end of June. It looks like most people are betting the democrats.
Building a compass rose(star) with travertine
Recently I embarked on a journey to build a compass rose in my entry way. Mine measures 6ft from one tip of the star to the other. At the tile store these retail for $2500. I considered purchasing one but then what fun would that be?
Some items you will need are as.
Gas prices are set to go down
Today Iraq for the first time since 1972 has opened it’s oil fields to the big oil companies. This post is not to argue the rights or wrongs of this. But I’m betting that we start to see a steady decline in gas prices and oil futures over the long term.
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Whittaker COT Index Variant-A
If you are a currency trader it can be quite annoying when you cannot access volume data as you can in other markets. This can be instrumental to ones success if your strategy from another insrument outside of Forex requires some type of volume indicator. Although it is not perfect you can use the futures.
The 2011 defense budget
The 2011 defense budget has been released. With a small increase over 2010’s budget at $708 billion. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Iraq forecast at $159bn
The biggest winners are the military contractors. Here they are in order.
Lockhead Martin $31.3bn
Boeing $20.9bn
Northrop Grumman $16.1bn
General Dynamics $15.9bn
Raytheon $15bn
United Technologies $7.1bn
L3 communications $7.1bn
Bae Systems $6.8bn
Oshkosh $6.4bn
KBR.
What is the forecast gross government debt in 2010?
As a % of GDP here are the leaders:
Greece: 124.9
Italy: 116.7
Begium: 101.2
Portugal: 84.6
Eurozone Average: 84
Ireland: 82.9
France: 82.5
UK: 80.3
Hungary:.
Whittaker Volatility Breakout Indicator
I wanted to share with everyone an indicator that I programmed and I find very useful. It is called the Whittaker Volatility Breakout Indicator or WVBI. The purpose of this indicator is to represent the range of a bar in percentage terms rather than in points. I think the flaw of most traders or programmers.
. Here comes the United States dollar
The United States dollar has it all time highs against the Euro. People are fleeing European countries that are in serious trouble Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and Spain or PIIGS. They are also selling off equities like gold and oil. This all has forced the dollar to an eight month high against the Euro and.
What are the top 10 global banks by total assets
With all the outrage over banks lately I decided to write a quick summary of the largest banks in the world. This is to help people put in perspective how large certains banks actually are. All of these figures are based on the revenue of the bank.
Rank
Bank
Country
Ticker
Assets (in US$Mil.)
Dividend Yield
1
Royal Bank of Scotland
UK
(RBS)
3,483,179
N/A
2
Deutsche Bank
Germany
(DB)
3,068,724
1.04%
3
Barclays Bank
UK
(BCS)
2,977,491
N/A
4
BNP.
N2 Network Solutions
- What to do if your 2008 DNS server will not resolve internet domain names March 9, 2010
- Get a remote command prompt February 4, 2010
- What is IPv6 February 3, 2010
- Free Screen Video Recorder from Microsoft February 1, 2010
- What are the minimum password requirements for server 2008? January 28, 2010
