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Joey, Does US federal insurance cover money put up as performance bonds in LIFFE or EUREX?

Jim, You completely missed the point of the thread. What I really wanted is a knowledgeable refco account holder to say that I saw events A,B and C and in hindsight that should have been a warning sign. The other thing that I wanted to get to was the difference between American and European...

As I sit here thinking about how stupid those guys were to have accounts at a firm like refco it makes me wonder if there was anyway to see this coming? That makes the next question is there anything that I can do as a IB account holder right now to see if this scenario could unfold with my...

My buddy Mike Bakker writes a commentary for the Ontario Soybean growers. It free at http://www.soybean.on.ca/commentary_view.php?id=181

The website www.farms.com has the DTN commentary posted for free and a fair bit of local elevator prices too. It never hurts to help out a good boy from the Bruce (website owner Joe Dales) even if he is a swamper.

Does anybody want to play the midnight rally game again? You let me know what you are long at and I'll go short at the same price. (The best part of this game is that we both win)

What happens if we have a large drop in the price of oil at the same time that the fed hike rates up to 5%? Deflation is still lurking in many sectors of the economy but since we don't have any 120 year old economists at the fed who remember the 1930's it is not considered with the same...

While we are on this topic, why is the margin higher on the Honk Kong Dollar? It has to be the least volatile currency traded on IB because the Hong Kong Monatary Authority maintians a peg to the US$.

Could one of the MRT let me know were they went long so I can short again

Cover at 1200.25 I can't wait to play agian!

What is going on at the open?

Okay I'm short at 1200.75 to cover at 1200.25

Let me know where you guys are buying so I can short again

I just covered my short for a half point profit at 1216.25.

Okay I'm short at 1216.75. Limit order to cover at 1216.25.

Equity Trader, Are you long already? If so at what price? Or if you have a limit order what price is it at? Let see just how you get this "free $$$".

Equity Trader, Let's make a deal. You tell me what your buying at and I will sell at that price on ES. I will cover my short at a half point profit before 9:30 am eastern the next day. You have to let me know where your order is before 4:15 eastern. I will paper trade this so in order for a...

Here a thought down this path; Many people I know talk about all the opportunity in Latin America but what is that they want to invest in? Well I hear about land, soybean elevators, banks-all kinds of things. I is my belief that in these newly stable countries with big trade surplus is that the...

I would imagine that inward looking Americans would be just about the worst. I have often thought that people from countries that have had currency de-valuations would make good FX traders because they have a better understanding of what money really is.

I would say that in the short term the co-relation would be very weak. However to become a better trader in the long run I believe it is necessary to constantly be increasing the amount of information you are taking in. This is a similar principle to the overload concept in weightlifting. Once...