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Baron, I like the title you gave this forum -- Self Employment. I really appreciate titles that are self explanatory. I also applaud the fact that you moved this up to a major sub-heading under trading. I was thinking that it needed to be a major category -- and there it was! I like the...

andrasnm introduced me to Profunds in the following thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=2349&highlight=rydex Profunds has funds that are short one and two times some indexes. Look up symbols USPIX, URPIX, BRPIX.

I miss it, too. It was extremely useful when I bought my new computer. I have posted links to it in a few discussion groups on the net -- some of those links are probably still around.

Nicodemus, I saw the purpose behind your tactic; it's just that your wording made it sound like you were doing it without monitoring to see whether the market had changed directions. When I read your reply to Magna, I realized this was not correct, but I had already sent my post. I meant it...

Nicodemus, Really like your post because I struggle a lot to keep in mind what the market is actually doing vs. what I expect it to do. The only sentence I question is your statement: "If your having problems along these lines you may want to get the long term charts off your screens for...

Great new home page! Thanks for the hard work, Baron!

http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/15/investing/q_online_brokers/

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BA447AE0B%2D9B91%2D48AA%2D83DE%2D8F18E27529AC%7D&siteid=mktw BTW, I don't know much about Harvey Pitt, Bush's nominee for SEC chairman. Does anyone know his position regarding online trading, etc.? Just wondering how much tougher things could...

Baron, Recently I was browsing the threads under Trading and noticed several related to the business of trading, such as health insurance, accounting, taxes. I am wondering if it would be useful to have a discussion category for this. Just a thought. Tried to come up with a title...

Nordic, Thanks for the suggestions. I meant to ask what media are considered the most influential for this topic. If anyone knows of other media and/or specific reporters who might have an interest in this issue, or who might be interested in an open, democratic market, or who might report...

Just in case you don't already know: Rules For Shorting Stock Staying In Place http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/04/1004short.html

Got following response from one of my emails to make key people aware of these proposed SEC restrictions of options trading: "Thanks for the info - I wasn't aware of this story. No guarantees, but I'll try to take a look at it soon. Regards,.. This confirms that some people in influential...

I sent the following email to two columnists, one for briefing.com and one for thestreet.com. Even if they do not write about this issue themselves, they may pass the info to others who will. If you know of columnists who might be interested or whose company's have a stake in the survival of...

Can anyone give me the link for a recent post that gave a list of special funds (?) that enable you to trade cash account long and short. Can't remember, but may have included RYDEX Velocity 100 (which is long 2x NDX100) and RYDEX Venture (short 2x NDX 100). Forgot to bookmark it, so...

Thanks for the tips, everyone! Htrader, I will probably follow your suggestion and have the funds transferred to my bank account first. Will welcome any additional advice -- it will be a few days before I do this so there is time.

I want to open an IB account (Non-Daytrading Margin Account). To fund it I plan to transfer funds from an Ameritrade account. I have never transferred funds between brokers before and thought people who are more experienced might have some special tips -- beyond following procedures given...

Fohat, I think this is one of your most important recent statements. It reminds us that whatever we think SHOULD be allowed or CAN be allowed under the new SEC rules and Reg T, the brokers have established policies that determine what we ACTUALLY can and cannot do -- at least until these...

Fohat, Thanks a million for your answer. You are willing to get into the technical details, which I am interested in. Here is something I don't understand. First, you stated: Correct, but keep in mind that with T+3, all transactions you make today are settled usually 3 days later. No...

I find Fohat's answer interesting because I have been wondering where the funds are during the period of time between my buying and selling a stock and the settlement date. It's part of my seriously considering the question "What are the risks/costs to the broker when providing realtime...

Magna, I was told by one of the Cyber reps in a phone conversation that they will apply T+3 settlement to cash accounts. I think two problems we all face now are (1) we cannot count of getting the same answer twice from some brokers, as you said, and (2) different brokers have different...