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    $TSLA

    What percentage of the cost of a plant do you reckon is the metal shell that goes around it? I'm guessing 5%, based on my aircraft overhaul plant experience, but would welcome a more educated guess from someone who actually knows factories.
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    Professional Trading - where does it stand compared to other high pay professions ?

    If you can find an IT Professional anywhere in the western world willing to work for $2,000 a month who knows what they're doing please send them my way! Maybe you for got a zero on that?
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    unfairness in trading ecosystem

    Most folks don't understand the world of startup stock and assume that it's the same as public company stock just not traded on an exchange. That view couldn't be more naive, and there are plenty of hucksters out there more than willing to prey on that naivety, or even generally honest founders...
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    Options contracts exceed the account?

    I think officially they liquidate up to the day before, I've had them do it 2 days before so like many things at IB your results may vary depending on what "the algorithm" decides to do.
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    Single stock futures -- do they trade?

    I completely get what you're saying, I think you're missing what I'm saying. The problem is that this only works if you're able to commit 100% to either holding through delivery or only trading during roll days. If someone is in that situation, then perfect product, for sure. But if there is...
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    Why do people sell S&P index options

    SPX options are cash settled, they will never be "put to you".
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    Options contracts exceed the account?

    I think we're all confused as to what exactly you're asking @antares66 Another thing you could be asking is will your broker let you hold options where the value if you exercised them would exceed your account balance. The answer for IB is that they'll let you do that up to about 2 days before...
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    Single stock futures -- do they trade?

    It seems kind of crazy to use a product that you can only realistically trade a few days during the month in order to get what, 19 basis points? I mean you could do this for years and have to exit once between roll periods and the spread would wipe out the last 5 years and the next 5 years of 19...
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    No Muller indictment against Trump anew, what does it mean for tomorrow's market

    First off just a hint on basic interpersonal skills. If you're trying to convince a person who has first hand experience in an area where you have none, telling them "your counter argument is based on your own life experience with no fact" is vanishingly unlikely to convince them. Pointing out...
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    No Muller indictment against Trump anew, what does it mean for tomorrow's market

    If you want to talk about something entirely different like the current pay of people who can't retire in 20 years, then feel free to start another thread about that. I was responding directly to your incorrect and facile statement about pensions for those in jobs that allow retirement after...
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    No Muller indictment against Trump anew, what does it mean for tomorrow's market

    I made more last year working in the private sector than the net present value of my entire military retirement as an O-5. And that's assuming I live for 50 more years. You may have a limited understanding of how shitty and dangerous 20 year "retirement" jobs are, how limited the pensions are...
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    Trading Sardines - Linda Raschke interview

    Actually spoken like someone who has at least a modicum of business sense. The whole insistence on 100% of a tiny pie over some smaller percentage of a massive pie is what separates failures from the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs. But definitely this Linda woman a person to take...
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    $TSLA

    By definition a patent is disclosed. You can find the full details on any patent granted at https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/search-patents
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    Most innovative companies

    Apple is a brilliant marketing company. They haven't invented anything new probably ever, but certainly not since the Mac gui.
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    Most innovative companies

    AWS generates and has generated most of Amazon's profit for most of it's history. It's pretty innovative stuff, just not something most even realize exists let alone grasp the nuances of.
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    amateurs have no chance

    I'm pretty sure I'm better at driving as an amateur driver than the vast majority of "professional" cab drivers!:D
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    Shorting stocks that get delisted

    I think at some point the clearing corp writes them off and you can close your short, but it is a real problem.
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    All Sonic staff quits after wages slashed in half.

    Trolling indeed. Crazy how much projection goes on with Trump and his minions.
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    The radical moral implications of luck in human life

    Project much? I'm a wealthy educated American. I'm not so arrogant to think that I got that way entirely because of my hard work or that a kid born to an addict mom in rural West Virginia with below average intelligence could accomplish even a fraction if what I have no matter how hard they...
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    All Sonic staff quits after wages slashed in half.

    And so the answer is clear, you have absolutely no answer to the very clear and basic question multiple folks here have asked you over and over. Thanks for confirming that. And please, you don't get to tell me I should move to Mexico if I disagree with you, and then tell me to "cool it" when I...
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