Posts by "olivier"

DaveO (slightly off topic but it's for a good cause and for anyone trying to give up smoking...)

When I read your quick post, you sounded uncannily just like the 'me' of a few years ago ("been trying to quit for yrs but the best I can do is 6 rollups/day") down to the "thin ones with filters" (the filters split in 2 by any chance?).

Here is a suggestion that worked for me if you haven't tried it already: go down to your local Health shop (lol) Holland & Barrett or online http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/categories.asp?cid=313) and get a pack of this (the blue packet).

In a nutshell, it's a herbal mixture, that is tobacco-free and most importantly nicotine-free; as I'm sure you're aware, it's the nicotine that keeps you coming for more so getting rid of what creates the need for a 'hit' is the first step. Now, it doesn't taste nor smell like 'normal' Golden Virginia tobacco and some people won't even give it a go because of that which is fair enough.
But if you can get past that then you can start by maybe having 1 Honeyrose out of every 2/3 Golden Virginia and gradually increase the ratio until it's all Honeyrose (as a first step). Then as your body slowly learns how to live without nicotine (and you willpower increases), you will decrease the amount of rollups you have per day until you become a non-smoker.

It worked for me a few years ago and I still have a pack of Honeyrose at home for the times when I really feel like one (maybe 1 slim one once a month if that)!

Good luck.

All those who say that Eurobonds are definitely coming, can you please explain to me the following:
how can Eurobonds exist without fiscal union?
If you don't have fiscal union (ie a common taxation and spending system that is shared by all the participating countries) then all that is happening is that the more fiscaly prudent countries end up subsidizing the Greece of this world so there would not be any difference.
And fiscal union is about as far away as you can get: I can't see any government that is going to allow Brussels/Strasburg to decide its level of taxation and even fewer citizens who would be happy with that.
Each country's level of taxation is finely tuned by each political party in power to make sure that they don't tax too much (or the people get angry) and that they spend enough (so that people feel their taxes are well spent).
Name me one political party that is willing to abdicate setting the level of taxes on nits citizen and that same party will be the one losing the election.
With that in mind, I see Eurobonds as non-starters and simply a smokescreen to mask the unsolvable eurozone problems and allow the current governments to kick the can down the road and hope for a miracle (that will not arrive lol).
That's my view and I'm quite happy to discuss it as I don't pretend that I can grasp everything

Trading: if you're short eur/usd via an ETF you are basically short euro AND long $ both in Sterling terms so if you want to be fully hedged you need to be also long eur/gbp AND short gbp/usd.
Zat correct?

someone called prop2009 or something like that posted a link in here a few days ago where he was posting the p/l on all the trades but he seems to have disappeared/been removed since.....but to be fair i don't know if he has been removed because he was openly posting the live trades from the subscription site (naughty) or because he was making trades up (as he wasn't an actual subscriber - naughty too)?

(nearly $27 I meant)