Recent content by vv111y

FINRA # 791 29 disclosure events. anyone know how bad that is? For comparison, IB has 13. This still doesn't help with regard to getting Madoffed. I'm hunting for any Markopoulos or someone who has done serious DD on these firms.

FINRA Reg#46350 They have no disclosure events, but then they're just the introducing, so I would expect more with Sterne Agee, and there is.

Some more digging - Their clearing & custodial firm is Stern Agee & Leach Inc. I posted a thread asking about them http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=155979 (diff thread for diff title) I emailed them and got a reply from Mr. Ferguson, the President. He has...

HomePage: http://www.sterneagee.com/Pages/default.aspx Can anyone provide any information regarding them? Thanks.

I'd like to know too. So far with googling I've gotten very little useful info.

P.I.T. - Perpetually in Transit Get yourself one of these babies Get a fat pipe over satellite and dodge and weave against hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, heavy taxation, punitive regulation, angry mobs, etc, etc

I put up a demo video of a great solar concentrator technology that I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_i6KMAGEI (scooped from technology review) still private - brand new. I really want to see this space mature fast with optimal technology so that big investments can be...

based on experience ?!? Your right - they're nuts Here's a transaction maybe they can handle - how about 100% withdrawal of all accounts. That shouldn't be too hard for them.

rhymes with dweeb

& SNYP40A1 Well, that's a surprise. The usual response for anti-aging research is very negative. It has surprised me the amount of hostility against something like this. You guys pro attitude is not typical. I don't know what to make of it, I always figured this was a no-brainer even with...

via Ritholtz Five phases to the current down-cycle from The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz Interesting analysis via David Rosenberg of Merrill Lynch: "There have been five phases to this current down-cycle – the first four are still in full swing, but it is the fifth that...

August 9, 2007 The beginning of the credit crunch.

oh ho ho! thems fighting words no I don't have a mac, but the OS is solid. It's more than legitimate, it's just too pricey for the hardware you get. ok, and for chrome. Yes I love FF, but tricking it out like I did has made it bloated and it behaves badly. With chrome I have...

Which policies in particular? I didn't see anything obviously bad, but then IANAL, so maybe I'm missing something.