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Since I don't think ISIS is important, I haven't been following it much. Where did you see that they're getting desperate? The other day the right-wing radio I listen to said that there was a nice new article in The Atlantic on ISIS. Let me dig it up. Well, here the author replies to the...

My position is that ISIS has no new strategies or tactics. If you want to argue otherwise, you need to actually name the new strategy or the tactic. I will then reply by giving examples of humans doing this over and over. This is a whole new can of worms you're opening. Weapons changed...

The question is whether ISIS will conquer Saudi Arabia. I realize this is confusing so I'll repeat. ISIS has never conquered a state. They hold territory only in places where failed states have pulled back. Saudi Arabia is not even close to a failed state. And if ISIS consolidates its territory...

Of course Ferdinand is right. Get a DMA (Direct Market Access) account and you won't have any doubts as to the price you're getting as you'll know exactly which ECN you're transacting on. I used to avoid pre and after market because of the low liquidity. I eventually figured out that since I'm...

Clearly I didn't understand this post. Of course there is no risk of "an enormous loss" when you exercise OTM puts because if they're out of the money, you wouldn't exercise them. So either they're actually in the money and what you're worried about is having to pay the commissions associated...

I agree that this can be a problem. The solution is to paper trade like your life depended on it. And when you trade real money, try to not be so worried about it. The objective is to get yourself to be equally emotionally involved whether its practice or the real thing. The best coaches do the...

Don't panic. And if you have to panic, try to do it before everyone else does.

If the US president wants to, of course he can use aircraft losses like the ones you describe as an excuse to escalate, stay the course, or leave. Maybe some military suppliers will get new contracts. Widows will weep. More entertainment for the news readers. Still not war. Total US KIA in...

I did the bid instead of ask thing day before yesterday. Another favorite is entering a price by typing and being off by a dollar so that it gets immediately filled at the market.

Is there a corporation that you need to sue? If so, the incorporation information is public and provides a representative that can be served. I am not a lawyer, but that's my first instinct. Here's the New York website where you serve corporations: The Secretary of State is the statutory agent...

So far at least, no state has been beaten by ISIS. They've moved into situations where there was already a civil war. Nor have they been able to put together a state. And the terror they've produced is so tiny that the media describes each of the victims. This is not war, it's not even a small...

I'm seriously considering paying for RANsquawk. I guess that's enough for me. When I've traded in a trading room most of the conversation was totally useless BS.

ISIS has shown zero ability to take any territory at all from a state that is *not* in the middle of a civil war. And the fighting against such states at peace (example Jordan and Saudi Arabia) so far has been completely desultory that no war, in fact, exists. I doubt that a real war will...

I trade a few rather illiquid stocks (holding for days to weeks) and my position is typically about 2 to 4 times the size at NBBO. I've seen what you're saying but I've sent my computer to send orders to the ECNs that do not exceed the size they're quoting. The result is that I get fills from...

One of my bucket list items is to complete a PhD I started a long time ago. My only income is trading, but a grad student is a very cheap existence but it is a "living". And I feel I spend very little time honing my edge. I really could do this much better if I weren't doing physics at the same...

I've noticed differences when in different parts of the country and especially outside the US. What I personally would like to see at MCD would be slightly more upscale stuff. And I don't see how they can do that without increasing the number of items. A cheap quick fast food place where I like...

"IIROC said on Friday that it had canceled all 14,793 trades in the stock executed after 1:04:56 p.m." I hate it when crap like that happens. Unless it happens to put me on the positive side of the trade in which case it's a matter of what's fair is fair.

The interesting thing is that, at least for a long time, the ISLD ECN was run entirely on a single Dell desktop computer. What it boils down to is that all those thousands of stock traders trading thousands of stocks is still very slow compared to computers. The best way to get introduced to...

I ate at MCD the other day to see what was going on. It was expensive and it seemed to have a lot more employees than their competition. I get the impression that the public wants more highly spiced foods nowadays. Taco Times seems busier, at least in this small town.

Not sure what you're describing; it's not bad English, it's that you haven't used any numbers. Let me make up some unrealistic numbers for a very illiquid stock. Suppose the stock was bid $11.00, ask $12.00 with big liquidity asking $12.05. If you put in an order to buy at $12.05 it might be...