I didn't know IB required $10K for an account... I usually hear $4K down to $500. Anything less than $2k sounds sketchy to me, but $10K seems quite high.
Your post didn't explicitly state it but it sounds like you're trading futures? I recently posted a review about Cannon Trading that you can read if you'd like, they're a solid brokerage that's been around for a while and do a good job.. IMO it's key that a brokerage has been through the...
These are people who have outperformed their competitors to get to where they are now. They cannot face the fact that their suggestions may have a downside.
Don't be silly. People ship things all the time. Stores need inventory, Amazon customers need their consumables, People need their pay checks... etc etc... The USPS will still be around in 50 years. It will just be smaller.
So it is up to the young people to check the old people who get too greedy?
"Listen grandma, grandpa. You're too rich and you're not using that money for anything worthwhile. I'm going to take some of that back because I'm actually doing something productive for society at the moment...
Which proves that the vast majority of people are swayed so easily by the media that they don't know which candidate matches their best interests most closely.