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Sep 16, 2011 Margin Increases on Low Cap Securities As a result of recent market volatility, please be advised that IB is increasing the margin rates on low capitalization stocks (currently defined as companies with less than $250 million in market capitalization). The margin increases...

i was always curious how their auto liquidation mechanism will work on long term portfolio of not really liquid corp bonds,that about to be liquidated? at what prices they will liquidate position,if there is no bid and ask(totally possible and very common situation on bonds)? tell you more...

sometimes it looks like that some of the decisions was made by people who doesn't' have a clue about trading is,but on other hand-they are trying to protect themselves(and my money).they might be overprotective in some cases,but i prefer to be safe,than sorry.. once again this margin changes...

at least this time they give us a notice in advance. i remember the times when they change the rules overnight without single warning or on the middle of the day.. i remember the times when they changed margin requirements on ALL corp bonds from like 30% to 100%,regardless to their credit...

for those,who still depressed-

incorrect...judging by amount lost + typical wall street approach(S&P -10%, my fund -5%-so i outperform S&P) ET traders faaar better than UBS's..

i think he is taking a nap at UBS after placing a buy order for like 100B..Kweku..what a name... :)

emg at work :p

10%? teachers have guaranteed raise of 6% every year! regardless where the fuck economy is... 10% is nothing for them..couple years flat on middle of depression? no biggie..gvt should cut 50% and freeze that every year raise. then we'll talk..

this statement doesn't make any sense to me...you have to say how much did you bought it. 4.45 or whatever mean nothing....it could be 100 shares..big fucking deal. but if you bought it x2 of all of your assets-then it is a big deal..looks like you cant' even phrase it...

fuck all of them..i prefer to build my own. and keep all trading Pc's on separate network..

this country is FBAR

solundra!!!! полундра!!! :eek:

i've tried everything..from visual inspection(looking for bad capacitors and any damage) to flashing bios. old PS/2 keybard included (w\o any adapter).at first problem looks like related to network on board card. i did install a spare one- it did solve the problem. but only for couple days. if...

House probing $528M loan to failed solar company http://news.yahoo.com/house-probing-528m-loan-failed-solar-company-125931197.html Thank you, Barry Hussein, for spending tax payers money wisely once again!

ended up with new motherboard.

exactly..its' all depends on what you do and how you do it. if you place one trade per month-then you don't even need the computer. just call your broker. if you do some sort of super fast scalping and it's fits you and that require a lot of data processing-then you probably need something...

talk to emg and failed_trader :p http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227054

yep..dunno about deal details with BOA,but old man is no fool,backed by US gvt , and from your article -

you miss this one, right? http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2011/09/12/news/doc4e6e6a06379f6608610065.txt Buffet is going to straighten them up a bit..imo this is just a beginning. go back to 2009,when Buffet bought US financial s..just read ET..pretty much everyone called him a...