Archives: 2009 April

Every second counts in today’s competitive market. Automatic stock investing softwares are very useful for a trader who wishes to succeed. Automated trading systems are financial tools whose primary purpose is to enable trading sans any human intervention. With automated systems, traders can execute orders even if they are away from their computers.

There are several different components to automated stock software. One piece of the trading software is a stock market screener piece. This part will screen for stocks that meet whatever criteria the user inputs. Good automated stock software will include one other element which is the ability for direct access trading features, allowing you to trade directly with other clients. These modules are necessary for any decent automated stock trading software package.

Order execution will greatly improve by eliminating this human factor. With automated trading systems, there will be no more missed opportunities to trade. It will prevent traders from being affected by their fears and emotions. On top of that, automated trading softwares allow trading opportunities with many brokers.

Automated trading started 15 years ago in the equities market. That time, outcry exchanges can still be heard inside a so-called boiler room. These have been gradually replaced by automated exchanges through the elimination of hands-on trading processes. Before, prices are quoted over the phone or through on-screen publishing that still requires manual confirmation. Prices are now executed on screen, by the computer. Equity market vendors started exposing their automated trading softwares for several other instruments such as foreign exchange, money and bond markets. These were previously hidden behind online trading screens. Vendors that started the exposure of automated trading softwares in various instruments include Bloomburg and Reuters. Meanwhile, banks that do not have the capacity to offer online screen trading found a way through web interfaces.

There are specific polls addressing health care and health insurance done by the Kaiser Family Foundation every month. These polls offer results that are interesting, it gives an inside look at the way the American citizens are leaning in their opinion about the health industry.

As reported by Medical News Today, the results from the April poll are: 36% didn’t go to dentist or doctor check ups because of the cost increases, 71% want taxes raised for high income Americans in order to pay for health care reform, 59% expressed that health care reform has become more necessary now, 26% had an individual in their home who had a hard time paying medical bills this past year, and 67% strongly or somewhat favor a nationalized health insurance plan to create competition for the private plans.

Health care and health insurance reform are obviously becoming much more important to the American people as the days pass. There are also a large number of Americans becoming more in debt with the rising cost of health care.

This is wonderful news for those in the political scene ready to see some reform be sent through the legislature. They seem to have a majority behind them now, as the Kaiser poll suggests, and because of that have the ability to push through a very large, encompassing health care legislation.

Of course, this is not a done deal due to this poll. It’s a glimpse of how the public feels right now, but opinion is always subject to change quickly, as the economic issues change day to day. Also there is the issue of the Democrats and the Republicans trying to agree on how the reform will work.

The New World Order and Motorcycle Clubs

What a crazy world we live in today. It’s come to a point where you just don’t know what to believe any more. The “news” media has gone from investigative reporting to regurgitating Government and Corporate “News Releases” as actual news.

The thing that I don’t understand is, some people actually believe everything they see on TV or read in the paper or on the Internet. You can tell people the Sky is falling but if it wasn’t reported on CNN, People will just think your some kind of crazy Chicken Little. Chunks of the sky could be hitting them in the head and they still wouldn’t believe it.

If CNN reports that the Sky is Falling and states the reason as “human over consumption of oxygen”, people start trying to figure out how to stop breathing so they can stop the Sky from falling. It doesn’t matter if the real reason is some new Military Toxin.

Let’s say there is some national disaster and you say something different from the official Government release on why and how it happened. Now you’re some kind of crazy Conspiracy Nut. Again It doesn’t matter what kind of proof you have, what kind of scientific evidence you try and present, you’re just a nut and no one wants to listen to you.

Because We all know the United States Government would never lie to us. They’d never conspire against the people of this country. Anyone remember The “Gulf of Tonkin” incident? Iran/Contra? Weapons of Mass Destruction?

We’re used to hearing about the Government Controlled Media in places like China and Russia, but what of the “News” media in the United States? Just a few months ago our Government was besieged with letters, email, and phone calls by people who were vehemently against the so-called Wall Street Bail-Out. At first the measure failed. CNN broadcast a week of programming designed to “educate” us stupid Americans on the reasons why we needed to pay for this bail-out. The next week it passed.