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I agree with this. Your money is a lot safer with IB... than with your sleazy American bank. Also... 10 page thread and no one mentions: (a) Retail Customer accounts are segregated (b) Retail Customer accounts are SIPC insured When Refco went bankrupt... I had a retail futures...

In this case the "competitive advantage" is expertise in technology... But this guy... Should be able to explain precisely what "market inefficiency" he is exploiting... Or I would not take him seriously.

This is close. I would put it this way: If the trader cannot clearly explain what "market inefficiency" he is exploiting... And what "competitive advantage" allows him to do so... TO ANOTHER EXPERT TRADER... Then you have precisely NOTHING.

Dude, you need to get laid. I'm sure your local streetwalker feels that the US dollar "has value".

"fund management industry" = "money skimming racket"

Rockfish, unless you have been a General Securities Principal for a US broker-dealer (I was for 7 years)... You have no idea what really goes on... And are just shilling for a $10 billion company. Only ak15 is posting in goodwill... and is very close to the truth.

Why don't you just cut out the middlemen... and print money? I'll bet no one has thought of this before.

Do you have a physical or mental handicap that prevents you from using Google? Your welcome.

When they put that MORONIC CLOCK beside GTC orders... I stopped upgrading. Even though I do 400 trades/day and 100% of my orders are GTC... IB feels that I need 30-40 clocks cluttering up my screen... You know... Because people trading 7 figure accounts are idiots... But people...

There is no such thing as "rogue traders... ONLY "rogue managers".

Yesterday's news tomorrow.

The ABX was of some interest 6-9 months ago... Because is was somewhat of a leading indicator... Of bond selloffs in the "SubPrime Financial Space"... Such C,BAC,MS,DB,ING,RBS,LEH,JPM,etc,etc. But the correlation is now gone... As the ABX collapses... The Core Financial Space is stable...

Everyone should do hard time at least once... To find out who your real friends are.

First of all... The excess return in the more efficient US market was only 4% annually... And much of that would go to transaction costs and slippage. Other countries appear to have less efficient stock markets. Also... They assume you can short any stock at any time... and this is not...

You are correct. By definition... All money made by traders is by exploiting a "market inefficiency". Historically, the NYSE was not designed to create "efficient markets". It's always been a massive SKIMMING operation... Whereby member firms exploited a RIGGED GAME for easy...

Not true at all. Historically, Specialists have always focused on the big, liquid stocks... And pretty much ignored lower volume stocks... Viewing them as little more than a hassle. In the bottom 20-30% of NYSE stocks by volume... A focused and well-equiped quant would has had a real...

If it's the end of the world... Why are C (7.1%) and USB (6.8%) bond prices holding up so well? You don't have to microanalyze the news... It's all priced into the bonds.

Why are you so interested in bond issurers? Are you shorting their common stocks... Or do you trade bonds?