Ingot54

Missed the cut for this contest - bit upset with Oanda for not responding to request for assistance (problem with linking MT4 platform to contest). Directing people to FAQ page and promising "will respond within 1-2 business days" is good enough if you have the time, but even Oanda "Chat" was not able to assist. See you in February 2013.

This is one sport I always dreamed of taking up, but have never done it. Dream on ...

Tamera Village ... this is the tip of a very big iceberg. For more ... Google : Tamera Village ... and graze until mentally filled. Meanwhile, this 10 min snippet:

Sustained Personal Mobility ... can it happen?

Hahahahahahahaha!!! I finally have it!! It was just a matter of waiting patiently, and becoming a member of many, many forums. I knew someone would eventually give away their secret .... and now I have been rewarded for my diligence! I have already placed my Holy Grail modified super version on the website for sale ... the first 100 clients will receive a numbered copy, gold bound with 120% guarantee of money back, in an iron clad no-questions-asked give-it-to-me-now winning strategy! And they will pay ... wait for it ... not $20,000 ... not $13,000 not even $4,000 For the first one hundred ... gasp (I amaze even myself) ... just $97! Yes - that is correct - a never-to-be-repeated, Billy Pouloser offer - just $97! But I am not such a tight-ass to keep it to myself after that, no! I am willing to let the next 200 copies go (for late-comers) for just $497. Sorry - it's first-come only at the early-bird price. Then, for those who missed both offers, I am going to release the final 200 of the electronic print run (it's an eBook, which will be instantly delivered until all 500 certified copies are gone). They are priced at a lazy $4997, but at this price I have to say "no" to the money-back guarantee. Only the first 100 clients have access to this. No more copies will be produced - (at this website anyway) - so you will need to be slippery on your feet to get in while the website is up. Then I will close up the website forever, and trade my way into the sunset! Here, in the glossy picture below, is a glimpse of what you can expect - my super-modified, non-patented, Holy Grail Digestor, with a guaranteed quality out-put that words can not express on this site! The end product is something you will be talking about for years to come, but for those who miss out - you will never know how close you came to the Holy Grail, as it passed!

Yes mate - I have spoken to Oanda "chat" and they advised me to get in touch with frontdesk. They say "1 or 2 business days" so it looks like if I am to joint the contest I will have to do it with the old Oanda a/c. I am road testing a revised strategy - best suited to MT4 because of the brilliant charting capabilities.

Continuing the discussion from the Trading Contest thread: Traders Laboratory Forex Trading Contest! - Page 55 - TL - 9303 Regarding MT4 platform: I have always found it to be fantastic for charting. It is possible to create charts of multiple time frames, and have them displayed in one window on your desktop. The colours and indicators are infinitely tweakable, and many scripts and Expert Advisors run faultlessly (mostly) on it. The data feed is free, and most strategies can be implemented on it. It is available in demo account form, and funded live trading form. (I have never used it for live trading.) You can trade on margin from 1:1 to 50:1 to 400:1 (though this level is for gamblers.) There are other things, but we are not here to promote MT4. The problem I had when wanting to move from Oanda standard to Oanda MT4, was that the setup would not allow me to open the MT4 under my current username. I then had to create a new account. Currently I have created a sub-account for MT4, but while it appears on the list of demo accounts on my Oanda standard account, the MT4 format can not be linked... as far as I have been able to find out. And to complicate matters, even with a new password, I have been unable to log in to the new account I created for the new username. The MT4 functions of, and is bootable from a desktop icon, like all of them. It just fails (so far) to establish that link to an account registered for the contest. I do not wish to register twice, as it would be construed as a form of cheating, since I would have 2 usernames. But I do seriously wish to road-test the MT4 under contest conditions. It would help me control my position sizes and tendency to risk more than I should. I am familiar with the MT4, and trade risk is much more clearly defined at the time the trade entered. One tends to trade the same way used in one's live trading.

Thank you Kuokam. That summary has brought home something that I need to look at further ... and I have mentioned it before ... trade management. We can continue this in the Discussion thread. I am only getting half (of what I need) correct. http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/forex-trading-laboratory/14629-trading-contest-discussion-2.html Yes ... watch him ... he knows how to trade, and with the 2-month contest looming, he will be a force to deal with. Thankfully people like him are apt to share and assist, and I feel he has given a priceless gift to anyone willing to follow that thread. http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-psychology/10158-optiontimers-project.html I have always used MT4 - since 2005. But the Oanda version is not slotting in to the contest interface too easily for me. More on that in the discussion thread, link above. I would like to say thank you for the graceful way you have acknowledge the things and people that have assisted you in trading. I am learning from you, OT and others all the time - simply because of the sharing.

I am currently having difficulty getting my MT4 a/c registered for the contest. I have contacted Oanda front desk and await their response. In the meantime... any assistance would be appreciated. And Kuokam - it's official ... you are the new king - congrats mate - well done - a great display of discipline, and brilliant numbers. Optiontimer - also very well done - not too shabby at all

Kuokam - It is very gratifying to see someone get it working in the way you have. Thank you for sharing the journey. (ex-King) Ingot

I am hoping to use my Oanda MT4 a/c for this contest. Anyone else already using one?

Thanks JohnW ... I am not tech savvy enough to know how to do that ... or even that it could be done. If it involves using a proxy server - I know about them but have never used one.

Until the end I had no idea he was using a nunchuck! This bloke had reflexes a fraction of the time of mere mortals! The vid to follow was awesome as well - lighting matchsticks tossed at him from 15 feet - most of us couldn't even see them coming, let alone swing a nunchuck to strike them at a spot where they would ignite! Thanks for that experience Siuya! ... (and you too Bruce!)

Unfortunately the film was not available in Radio-only format, but I was able to listen to the story of bringing water to the village in Ghana. Unintended consequences indeed. If you have a link that enables me to follow this programme from Oz, I'd be keen to follow it. I did copy/paste the title into their search engine, but kept coming back to the Player/film version only. Unsure why the BBC keeps their films to themselves - no wonder the Poms are so smart! I appreciate the effort you went to mate, to share this - clearly it has value and enlightenment ... which I guess I am the poorer for now.

Bob - I have already requested the humble pie. But I am still getting the yellow part of the egg out of my eyebrows. It's not pretty, and is too scary to post here as "Picture of the day" - this is a family site! But if you mix a bit of yoke with the avatar, you will begin to see what I mean. I didn't trade it after that - it hit my SL at 15, and I took the loss. I am still working on automating the strategy, but I think if we can write an algorithm for your approach, we can at least break square in future. Regards Ivan :rofl:

Bob ... you can not be both Santa Claus and the Tooth fairy. Either way you could end up at the wrong celebration! The smart thing to do would be to come late to the party, after the obese lady has sung!

There are no cubes ... only 2-dimensional figures, if you discount the thickness of the matchstick. If the thickness of the matchstick is considered, then there are only cubes as circled in blue in my post above. This is getting all too much. Taaams ... Bob ... you are still on my Christmas list ... barely EDIT: Bob, I was saving this for December 25th, but I see it is time for an early gift. Exercise 3 can be done with your hands in your pockets. For the rest of us, the conservative way will work too ... http://www.naturalnews.com/035071_belly_fat_exercises_fitness.html

Our posts crossed mate - you are definitely correct. I am busy cleaning up egg from the eyebrows and ears. EDIT: Took your advice - turned up this little site: http://www.facebook.com/sapien.Ltd But hopefully Tams will put us out of our misery before we get into anything else!

Of course, if you really want to get picky here, you could say the 6 blue shapes indicate "squares" making it 21 squares in total. I will not accept that the red circles indicate further squares - they have incomplete sides. 3-sided shapes are NOT squares. In that case, though, we would need to add a further 19 bringing the total to 40. I say we have 15 squares made from the lengths of the matches ... and a further 6 "squares (at a big stretch) made from the junctions of the matchstick ends. So the answer is 15 ... or 21 ... depending on how pedantic you are in addressing the definition of a square!

Now come on people - get a grip here! If the centre squares had all sides intact, there would be 16 smallest ones. But there are 7 of them with one side incomplete, leaving 9 - we agree on that. Next, there is ONE all-encompassing square, with a side of 4 matchsticks ... are you with me so far ... if not, then pay attention, because the next bit is going to be difficult, if you are already having bother ... you too Bob! This largest, single square is divided into 4, by the matchsticks that cross in the middle. Finally, I see one 2-matchstick sided square right in the middle, sharing the same centre as the largest, single square. Unless my year one math is a bit off tonight, that is 9+1+4+1. I hope you all stick with 16, because I am going to scoop the pool here ... aren't I? EDIT: After reading Siuya's answer, I concede defeat - clearly I missed the 1x3x3 square. Humble Pie can be delivered to the address I shall send in a pm!

I see 15 ... anyone else?

Which means its price can not be manipulated down - no one is going to enter into a contract to sell gold at a cheaper price that they bought/produced it. There will be limits to that. But I know some bears are going to be caught one day (JP Morgan) and to cover their shorts they are going to have to buy gold at a loss ... I hope I see that ... what Schadenfreude! :applaud: PS - and if it can happen in the Silver market, then Gold is certainly not immune to some of it too! http://moneymorning.com/2012/08/08/cftcs-chilton-assures-silver-price-manipulation-probe-not-over/

Has anyone asked BS Bernanke, what he means by "the full brunt of the severe fiscal tightening" ? (Re-post of link): Bernanke steps up warnings over fiscal cliff | The Raw Story Very few would even be aware of the effects of inflation, rising interest rates, austerity, recession and depression, deflation, stagflation. I hardly understand them myself - surprise :haha: - having never experienced much of many of these things in my living reality. But the can will be kicked further down the road - the congress has never had the will to face front-on any of the debt problems building in the past. In my view - as an ignorant observer - nothing will be done, until there is a collapse significantly large as to cause a bi-partisan and non-parochial approach to dealing with it. It is one minute to midnight, and the piper is at the door wanting to be paid. Meanwhile Washington bickers, but will eventually find a consensus to avoid the cliff, exposing the setting of the debt ceiling as another sham/scam from other days. A new debt ceiling will be set ... then another ... until someone cries: "Time gentlemen please." Yes ... for once BSB is correct - "the full brunt" is coming. But BS does not have the depth to deal with it - instead he is escalating the blame game publicly now, to shore up future interest in his memoirs. Idiot? Dumb? Ignorant? Not my words, but ... caveat emptor I guess most will go back to their own salve ... "Two-and-a-half Men" is still showing on TV!

Cheers MM. But the more I read about Bernanke, the more I am convinced he is some kind of circus freak. Even more so ... the people who believe him, without question. Indeed, I go so far as to state openly, that anyone who believes that BS Bernanke has any clues in the issues he helped create, and until now pretended to control, is as pitiable as he is. Remember his brash statements when the sub-prime crisis first hit? He had ignored the warnings of people like Marc Faber and Peter Schiff who had observed and warned of the housing bubble, created entirely by the low interest rates of the Fed. Firstly he hosed down the idea of a crisis - even before Bear Stearns went belly-up. Then when it was clear to even the dogs barking it, he said "it will be contained - there is no need to panic." His anti-inflationary credentials were even more widely vaunted and distributed by the press, and he was portrayed a some kind of financial messiah ... a fiscal genius who would do whatever it takes to "save the world." Ben Bernanke, the Fed, and the financial crisis : The New Yorker Now, his capitulation is complete. Where is the helicopter now? With ostensibly only months left to his tenure at the Fed, he is attempting to put in place some sugar-frosting for posterity. His new line - "Congress and the administration will need to protect the economy from the full brunt of the severe fiscal tightening ... " is not only an admission of failure, it is the epilogue of a pretentious career in economics, that is finally being revealed for what it is - empty. Pretentious, because the Fed oversteps its mandate at every opportunity, but then back-peddles when the cake sinks in the middle. Bernanke steps up warnings over fiscal cliff | The Raw Story Look at the words he uses: "The unemployment rate, currently 7.9 percent, remains “well above” what Fed officials want to see ..." Bernanke said ... Who gave the Fed the mandate to do anything about the employment rate? Oh yes, they are charged with the responsibility of controlling money supply, interest rates, from an economical pov, but it can not be done as a stand-alone ... by necessity it requires the co-operation of the politicians. In that respect he is correct in roasting Washington for their role. But it still does not let him off the hook. Only industry, enterprise and the free market can do anything about unemployment and productivity - you can not legislate success in this field. Now, in the twilight of his career, he is humble, after going-it-alone for so long, allowing everyone to believe that the FOMC and the Fed had our backs. But will all chance of glory now gone (for saving the USA from fiscal disaster), he is instead doing the switcheroo, and flicking the blame on to others for his disastrous interest rates and failed/failing QE policies. Good luck, Benny ... you created the story that history will remember. For mine, he is just a proud man, who failed, and is now seeking a scapegoat for his folly. Proverbs Ch 11 ... far better reading! Proverbs 11 NIV - The LORD detests dishonest scales, but - Bible Gateway

Not too sure I can accept that. Had the US NOT been running deficits since 1969 - the year Neil Armstrong got moondust on his size 11's - there might have been something in the cupboard to loan out. In Australia our conservative government put money in the bank - enough to fund quite a lot of the pensions for the retiring public service employees as needed. Today, that's gone, on balance. Our socialist, wonderful treasurer here these days, who drinks the same Kool Aid as Bernanke has been spending about $105mil/day. Now the country needs to find $20mil/day to service our debt. I don't buy that it ok because as a % of GDP it is small change. Ask Americans if they would like to have their debt paid off now, and have their pensions funded for the future. At some stage the bond-holder is going to get nervous. Ask Japan how it is working out - they have been stimulating since the stock market correction from a peak of around 39,000 points in 1990, to today's figure of around 9,350 points. Just ask Greece if deficits matter. Ask Spain. Ask France ... in fact ask ANY nation that does not have the privilege of holding the status of reserve currency of the world, and see what they tell you about debt. The USA is cocky about it because they can print their way out. But they are doing it slowly, so as not to startle the horses. Bond holders are taking a haircut , and there is nothing they can do about it. Inflation (the real number) is killing their capital while it is tied up in "safe haven" US Bonds. And in spite of printing (QE I ... II ... III ... ) I am yet to see the exit - there is NO "way out." Like Greece, at some point they are going to have to come up with the folding stuff. China is not going to accept a default on US debt lying down. The Chinese workers have not laboured for the past 10 years so Americans can have a free ride on the consumer wagon, and not pay for their consumption. If debt is only smoke-and-mirrors ... fog-and-haze ... whyare the Europeans getting in a lather about countries that can not pay? How is the USA any different? They are not - and I feel sorry for anyone who thinks "she'll be apples", because when the Austerity fairy comes along to tap Americans on the shoulder ... she will be bringing the Smack Fairy with her. And there will be war. And I do not expect America to win the next one - recent history has shown that there are wars that can not be won. If what we have in Iraq and Afghanistan is "victory" (GWB declared victory in Iraq on the deck of the AC Carrier "Abraham Lincoln" in a war that was never declared) then get ready for a very unhappy "peace." If we do not live within our means, at some point we will be forced to meet our commitments - it's that simple. Anyone who thinks otherwise is reading Aesop's wonderful works! Borrowing More Debt Beware the Dumb US Deficit Deniers Americans have been too smug for too long - I think something will cause them to wake up in due course - and I hope it is not too uncomfortable for them.