Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Age: Early 40’s
Education: Harvard Law
Political Experience: 4 yrs as State Assistant District Attorney, 2 yrs in the House of Representatives, and 6yrs as a U.S. Senator for the State of Massachusetts.
Military Experience: None
Physical and Mental Health: Very Good (Does occasionally smoke)
Religion: Buddhist
View of his Political Party: Loyal (Stated that, “If one is not loyal to his or her political party they cannot be loyal to America.”)
Domestic Agenda: Promotes social reform policies
Top Ten Domestic Goals:
1. Make health care affordable and accessible to every American.

2. Reduce the cost of energy and make us energy independent.

3. Expand access to affordable, high-quality child care.

4. Make college more affordable through more grants and Federal Loans

5. Protect families from predatory lenders and help them avoid foreclosures.

6. Increase the minimum wage.

7. Create good jobs with good wages to expand the middle class.

8. Balance the federal budget so we don’t pass today’s massive debts to the next generation.

9. Reward savings, protect pensions, and provide greater retirement security.

10. Higher Taxes for the wealthy top 10 Percent of Americans and tax breaks for the Middle Class

Foreign Agenda: Promotes an International and Global Policy
Top Three Foreign Relation Goals:
1. Build alliances and build our foreign policy on a strong foundation of bipartisan consensus.

2. Create global coalitions to tackle global problems like climate change, poverty, AIDS, and terrorism.

3. End the War: Require a complete withdrawal of combat troops in Iraq in 12 to 18 months without leaving behind any permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

First Goal if Elected: A National Health Care Act that would provide full coverage for all Americans which would make insurance affordable by creating new tax credits, expanding Medicaid and SCHIP, reforming insurance laws, and taking innovative steps to contain health care costs. He stated that, “ American healthcare is the best in the world for those who can afford it, but of course millions can’t and millions do not have proper health insurance at all. It’s one of the many areas of American exceptionalism, and it is also one of the areas where American inequality is most clearly visible.”

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Candidate B’s Profile and Platform

Gender: Male
Race: Black American
Age: Late 60’s
Education: Military Academy
Political Experience: 2yrs Director, Strategic Plans and Policy (J5), member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 2 yrs U.S. Ambassador to France, and 2yrs Lieutenant Governor of the State of Virginia
Military Experience: Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General
Physical and Mental Health: Very Good (Does occasionally drink)
Religion: Christian
View of his Political Party: Individual Thinker (Stated that, “I am not a puppet for the party, but a President for the people and an individual thinker for the nation.”
Domestic Agenda: Supports National Security Agenda
Top Ten Domestic Goals
1. Increasing the size of the American Military through a compulsory draft for all U.S. citizens that are 18 through 21 if they are not enrolled and attending college or trade school.

2. Reform the defense budgeting process to ensure that America enjoys the best military at the best cost.

3. Supports the development and deployment of a national missile defense system to protect the United States from rogue regimes like North Korea.

4. Improved military pay and benefits, and an improved quality of life for military families.

5. Improve border security and “No” amnesty for illegal immigrants.

6. Reform our immigration system to ensure that all future efforts to attract immigrants are directed towards those who have the job skills, education, and English language proficiency that will make them productive Americans.

7. Ensure that every community in America is prepared for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

8. Restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending.

9. Commitment to cutting taxes, ensuring economic growth, and reforming the tax code.

10. Promote government investments in technologies related to power generation, and materials science.

Foreign Agenda: Promotes an International and Security Policy
Top Three Foreign Relation Goals:
1. Restore America’s standing in the world to promote our interests.

2. Ensure our security and advance our values by keeping our country safe through engaging our enemies.

3. Continuing the War: “Winning the war on terror is the great responsibility of our generation. Iraq is only one front in the larger war on terror, and failure there would lead to a broader

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to be set up for buying and selling stocks rather than futures. In other words, you choose the instrument symbol and have an option to buy or sell….rather than an option for buying a long or short contract. I’m wondering, say if my very first transaction I want to buy a short contract on silver. Would I simply select silver and click on the "sell" box? Is that equivalent to a short contract? So it would be sort of like selling what I don’t have (which of course one can’t do when dealing with normal stocks). And if so, of course it would follow that "buy" would be buying a long contract.
Harley, you are correct. This I certainly don’t know what I am doing but everyone has to start somewhere and I intend on a lengthy simulated trading run till I get my feet under me.
John, thx, your explanation helped. However, I don’t see how saying "buy a short" is wrong because as I read the explanation of what I short future contract is, its basically buying a contract that allows me to sell the underlying commodity at a future date at the present price. So, I would be buying the power to sell at some point in the future (although I realize most people generally do not keep a contract till it expires). The purchase of the contract and the underlying commodity are actually two different things although that are connected.
**they are connected

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I want a trading platform that trades, stocks, futures, commodities, currencies, is there such a thing, what platform do you guys use and if there isnt how is the streetsmart pro for charles shawb?

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1. an actual trading platform were I can look through differnt charts.
2. but the actual markets i.e. nasdaq, dow jones, etc.
3. futures, options would be nice but Im just looking for actual stocks

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