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hi ids, anything new with PM? I haven't heard a peep from IB about the new PM calculations after the initial email last week.

I should feel sorry for Americans, but somehow I don't. I don't want to argue whether the stories about refining capacity are made up, about whether tough environmental regulations are driving prices up (to some extent I'm sure they do....). We are where we are with gas prices and the...

He's doing it to show off. Once you have that much money, you already have the nicest house and yacht and cars, so how else do you show off? Biggest baddest airplane.

There is no put selling strategy that would survive a 1987 crash, assuming you opened your position before the crash. Your account would be cleaned out in a matter of days if not hours.

careful here, LOL! it may not be a woman you're looking at.

there are some beautiful women in India but for the most part, i find east indian women to be very unattractive. They have way too much facial hair. You are basing your opinion on a couple of supermodels who don't even resemble typical indians. Shetty and Rai have strong caucasian features...

wow lots of misogynists here

well, before predicting a subprime blowout you have to find out what % of borrowers are subprime in the first place. I don't know the number is for SoCal. Anyway, a lot of these 'experts' on TV and in the paper are dumba**es. I've been on the record saying that most of LA Metro will not tank...

Too much doom and gloom. Many jobs are not outsourceable. For instance, nursing/healthcare, dentistry, construction, entertainment, retail, agriculture, banking etc. People said 25 years ago that manufacturing would cease to exist in the US by now because it was cheaper to build in Asia and...

Yeah it's funny how these support reps from India have western names. But not all of them are in India. I knew an Indian guy who worked customer support and he was in the USA. Some callers would berate him, assuming he was in India when he actually was in Texas. As for outsourcing, I used...

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A good software firewall can be set up to block this type of activity. You can let one application access port 80 and block another one. Everyone should be running a sw firewall. zonealarm and outpost make free firwalls that do this. It does require the user to be aware of the programs...

Blocking penny stocks is not sufficient. I can think of another way to scam your account. I'm not going to tell you how here because some wannabe hacker's probably reading this forum. Brokers do need some type of physical device that you carry in your posession -- a keyfob password generator...

Employees of IB may state something on this forum, but is it considered official? I put more weight on the email sideshowbob got, and it did not mention any opt-out

You do need money to make money, but this shouldn't be an excuse for being poor. I have met several people who started with almost nothing and are now multimillionares. They were poor people who got richer, not poorer, despite your theory. They did it through hard work, sound fiscal...

It's not possible because it's not directly in their control. The best you can hope for is that they lobby the regulatory bodies to decrease the amount, which I hope never happens.

why did you even bother to argue? most cops have a brain the size of a watermelon seed and, depending on where you live, are inclined to use violence to make their point. they have a union to protect them too. just sign the ticket and go on your way.

he thinks that SBUX will reach $35 by June expiry. Read his other posts. gooooooooood luck on that. "A fool and his money.... <fill in blank>"

What you're missing is that you feel somehow entitled to being rich just because you busted your ass off. Working hard doesn't entitle you to anything in this world. You need to work smart and make the right decisions.

Highest risk would be very deep OTM long positions, especially the ones trading for a nickel. The risk of losing your principal is nearly 100%. Potential gain could be hundreds of %, perhaps thousands. This is called the lottery trade.