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To me, the "unusual" put data suggests that there was not front-running by terrorists. If each option was trading for $3 and the activity was 3,000 above "normal" (according to the article in wnd.com), then the terrorists put less than $1MM into the options trade, assuming no one else was...

Some of the time i have found IB's CS to be lacking, but there have been a number of times that it has been fantastic. On average it has been very good in my experience.

It's good for that august body of economic experts called the US Congress, since at election-time they can now claim that they have forced the Chinese -- who allegedly were destroying our industrial base before the 2.1% reval -- to change their economic policy so that everything now will be...

Does not appear to be on the web site yet. Here is the e-mail: July 20, 2005 Dear Valued Client: Great news. As always, we value your business and, as a result, are very pleased to announce that, effective September 1, 2005, we have reduced by over 90% the thresholds at which your...

implications will be big. great concept ==> "socialist market economic system". http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/detail.asp?col=6400&id=542 Public Announcement of the People's Bank of China on Reforming the RMB Exchange Rate Regime July 21, 2005 With a view to establish and...

Some will call me naiive, but based on my experience with traditional buy-side firms and sell-side firms (but not hedge funds), I can't imagine that anyone with such a successful franchise as SAC would jeopardize the huge money by doing some stupid violations of securities laws. Cohen is truly...

Sadly, I do not see any publicly traded pure plays in this article from the Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1121291413299&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes Jul. 14...

I imagine this is exactly the issue that is driving the proposed rule. The manual traders (including me) are just collateral damage caught in the crossfire between the exchanges and the computers.

Go with the best firm.

Page 72 of IRS Publication 550 addresses special rules for securities traders. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf

The most important date is the ex-dividend date. If you buy before the ex date, you get the dividend. If you buy on the ex-dividend date or later, you don't get the dividend. Most quotation services adjust the previous day's closing price to reflect the dividend prior to the open on the ex...

I just got a new Dell. How do you burn a copy of the OS images? (Having the original OS image on the hard drive is great, but how long is it going to take the high school kids to figure out how to corrupt those images?)

All data is OK here, but the net change shown does appear to reflect Friday's close in NY.

I use "Spybot-Search and Destroy" and "Ad-aware". I have heard good things about those free programs from people who lnow more than I do, but I if there is a better solution, I am willing to pursue that.

This whole week has been below average for me so far. I don't know if it is beacause it is expiration week (ususally not so good for me), or if it is summer trading, or just low volatility. How has everyone else done this week compared to their average week?

Yes, a joke. But, I don't like Ohio cashing the check if there are profits, but suing to recover if there are loses. "Heads I win, tails you lose." Ohio should take some responsibility, starting with firing the committee/consultant/etc. that hired MDL.

How does Trader Monthly Magazine estimate how much a trader makes? Do they have access to audited financials? Sounds like a big number, but I have no reason to doubt it.

Sounds like a different version of the Internet stock bubble to me.

Can you imagine the payroll?

Circle T gets a do-over? When Cirlce T publishes their record in the future, will it include the negative effect of the "unauthorized" trade, or will it exclude the unauthorized trade, assuming it is reimbursed? (Awesome way to incubate a brand new fund!) If the record excludes the trade...