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Oh give us a break !!! Our nation is "successful" mostly due to the fact that our continent was 'discovered' 10,000+ plus years AFTER the European & Aisian world's had already been fully exploited & developed. Amercas 'success' is nothing less than an accident of history and some good luck...

Access your IB account and you will have a message that the stock has been assigned. It will also show up in the Portfolio tab of the IB Trader Workstation screen. Yes, you can sell covered Calls on the stock that you own.

Why would you Short a stock at $3.00? Doesn't seem like much upside to that trade. Even if Ford were to go bankrupt, and I doubt the gov't would allow that, you don't stand to make much.

I'll have to admit my ignorance here: I just buy and exit at a profit or stop loss. Today I am trading Oct. 17 options. I think I remember reading that Settlement Time is Friday MORNING ? Are these the 'Quarterlies' ? Are the 'serials' the options that expire on Oct. 31 (EOM options) ?

Does anybody know the Settlement TIME of S&P emini Options? I've looked on the CME site: nothing. My broker is IB and...well you know how efficient their Chat Help isn't.

O.K., I apoligize for calling you a 'dumb fuck'. That was stupid of me, please forgive. I'm just saying that people making 40K per year, assuming at least 1 child, should not pay any income taxes. The exempt amount should go up as the number of children increase up to a limit of 3 children...

That is total bullshit. Why should people earning 40K a year have to pay any income taxes?!?! You try living on 40K a year. With a family. Who would YOU designate to get the largest tax decreases: the wealthiest ?!?!? Dumb fuck. Let those who get largest benefits from our nation pay...

Correct, Sam. My original post assumed that you had an IB account. Before discovering Bracket Trader, I had been entering my orders using the IB platform. In other words, I would transmit the sell/buy order and then watch the market to enter the offsetting order. Often I would hope/pray...

Alright, the long & short of it is this: WE DON'T NEED TO CUT TAXES. Our tax rates are the absolute lowest of ALL industrailized nations. We need to focus on BALANCING the BUDGET. It is so unfortunate for our nation that Obama & McCain have to resort to 'tax cutting' to win this...

This message is for new traders, (or old ones) who are having trouble with their trading and use Interactive Brokers. I recently started using a software called Bracket Trader to make my trades. It has made a world of difference for me. Specifically, 1. It enters your order to Buy or...

The majority of work being done by the Bush admin between now and Jan. is the shredding, burning, and deleting of evidence. How about Cheny trying to declare that the office of Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch !!! He's making this claim so that he's not required to keep his...

The market will NEVER plunge to zero and the current pullback has nothing to do with Obama's upcoming landslide election. G. W. Bush's massive deficit spending is the cause of our problems if anything. Of course, it is most likely the undeniable, unpreventable reality of the business cycle.

You must believe that it would be proper for US soldiers to offer private security services for corporate and wealthy executives. The Democrats already hate executives. Anyways, most of the Blackwater are ex-soldiers. Both jobs are volunteer. Its Brutally unfair that Halliburton is making...

I'm missing something. What does this accomplish? On Jan. 21, 2009 the newly elected president would take office. Don't Bush & Cheny need the 2.5 months to shred, burn, & cover-up their crimes? Assuming your dates of 11/13 and 11/14 they would never be able to accomplish this.

Stocks will go up and go down regardless who is president. Aren't you the guy that's been posting for about the last year that we are entering a new bull market ?!?!? Anyways, Barrack Hussein Obama WILL be the next president and there will be a solid Democrat majority Congress behind him...

I ended up deleteing intra-data from 9:47 thru 10:22+. Had the same prices in the fields and the pries were way off.

As a baby-boomer myself, I must say that poyayan has it pegged spot on. The baby-boomer generation is the biggest bunch of cry-babies that our country has ever produced. We had everything we needed growing and now that's it's our time to pay the bills all we hear is Cut Taxes, Cut Taxes...

I was disappointed in Obama tonight but apparently the people that watched thought he did great. Of the polls I've seen, CNN and MSNBC, Obama won by solid margins. Most surprising was the 51%/46% in favor of Obama on handling Iraq and he scored very closely (lost narrowly) on the question of...

I was hoping Obama would close the sale tonight but it's not going to happen. He continually points out what McCain does, feels, or believes when what the voters want to hear is what HE is going to do.

This is what I feel. If things were to get that bad (and they won't), paper money would seem to be worthless in my opinion. Aaron Copeland pointed out that safety deposit boxes were sealed in the 20's crash. I don't think that is the place to put your money.