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You don't consider your own unissued shares a "marketable security" if that's what you're asking. The balance sheet wouldn't balance, for one, and it just wouldn't make sense for a variety of reasons. It's generally shares held in other companies, for example Yahoo's share of Alibaba would be...

I finally got off my lazy behind and read up on the OPG process as well, thanks for sharing it though. Your logic on the manipulation does make sense.

When do they decide that they aren't going to trade? One second after open, 5 minutes....? Seems like that makes manipulation even easier for something that's already somewhat easy to manipulate, you don't even have to put on a trade just influence the mid?

Amazon buys solar and wind for most of their power and that's potentially even less in Canada because no Trump solar panel tariffs. The electricity usage for a HQ office building doesn't move the needle anyway, their existing Canadian data centers already use orders of magnitude more, plus...

Is it possible for this time to stretch out if some of the options don't actually trade until later, like the AM settle SPX options?

I'm waiting for Amazon to put their second HQ in Toronto as a way to get around the restrictive and uncertain skilled labor visa restrictions in the U.S. As a nice bonus for Bezos it gives a big middle finger to Trump, but it would actually be a sound business decision given the current...

They do this for any contract when taking delivery would exceed your margin, same thing with options the result in delivery of stock. The best solution is to go to any broker besides IB. Alternately just limit yourself to cash settled futures and options or sell the day before. Note that I had...

The OP isn't trying to recruit you to a scheme. He is essentially a founder, and someone like you (an investor) is giving him free money that he could either leverage into more money or use, i.e. he's not going to lose money and could make money. The word "arbitrage" isn't a good description of...

Where are you getting a liquid single stock forward quote for tech stocks, or am I misunderstanding?

To be fair any equity investment in a startup is essentially "free money" for the founders. I got a substantial amount of money from VCs for my first startup without providing any personal guarantees and if I'd burned through it all and shut down at the end we would have shook hands and departed...

You might want to do a deep dive into the concept of "real options", there's a good deal written about the concept and it's basically what you're describing. It's a very interesting way to look at life in general and I've found it very useful. I am curious about the specific program you're...

OK, switch that to hedge funds if you're concerned about restrictions on trading style. And if the allegation is that "large brokers" are stealing the "strategy" of their most successful traders than your size argument would apply there as well, after all the post was talking JP Morgan. The...

PM on its way, thanks!

I have him blocked so I don't see his messages, sometimes leads to non-sequitur to those of you seeing everything! Damn shame, it's actually on my list of places to visit and I'm seriously considering moving my trip up to this next summer so we can see it before it devolves any more.

No, it was very much like Turkey, seen as a safe, secular government haven in the Middle East. For year's Turkey has been that same kind of place and we can only hope it goes back instead of following the current path.

Don't forget, the financial capital of the Middle East in the 1970s was a peaceful, tolerent, multi-relgious country called Lebanon. As things started to go south there I'm sure there were some great buys on apartments in Beruit. Great buys until they got hit by mortar rounds later on at least...

He's not only clueless but dangerously clueless because he is so willfully ignorant that he can't be bothered to read a prospectus or run a mathematical model. It's hilarious that he actually describes the mathematically expected behavior of a daily return fund in choppy vs trending markets, but...

It's pretty sad that you seem to actually not realize that you're spouting gibberish. What do you actually do for a living that this intellect can support, I'm genuinely curious?

Brilliant, you are clearly smarter than the CFO of every company whose stock actually did go to zero. They all could have just done an infinite number of reverse splits and they'd still be a going concern! If only they'd known someone of your stunning intellect! You must be a billionair with...

Basic math seems to elude you my friend. No amount of reverse splits can prevent a thing that you assert "always goes to zero" from going to zero. Rookie division mistake.