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IB doesn't offer interest on the first $10k of your cash balance. This is in dollars, don't know about in Euros.

This was mentioned in the August Trader Monthly magazine on page 79 in the intro to the "30 under 30" article. To quote TM, "You won't see Cilantro's humility-challenged Tim Sykes, who in the past year has gone from wunderkind to Ryan Leaf-like laughing-stock." Any press is good press as...

I trade LEAPS quite frequently and I have heard nothing of this. Perhaps the new portfolio margining rules took this proposal off the table. Why don;t you give your trading desk a call and see what they say?

Triple witching is always good for opening only orders since any opening gaps typically retrace. Today appears to be no exception. If you are long on the ES, you are going against the probable path of least resistance. I'm sure Don Bright made a killing today. I happen to be short...

Buh-buh-Benny and the cutss. Didn't Biz Markie do a rendition of this?

No thoughts, except that LVLT was Cramers Top Spec Picks for 2007, and that was around $6.30. Looks like Cramer is going to have to put on the dunce hat once again. My advice to you is to take a look at the 4,999 other stocks out there. They probably are a much better investment than LVLT.

How can you tell the Specialist is the one making the trade?

Yeah we don;t want to figure out how to write C++ code or compile software or anything like that, just looking to set up a trading system!

Hey Timmay! Looks like you got a mention in this month's Trader Monthly magazine. You are mentioned on page 79 in the intro to the "30 under 30" article. To quote TM, "You won't see Cilantro's humility-challenged Tim Sykes, who in the past year has gone from wunderkind to Ryan Leaf-like...

AAPL Obviously screwed something up at this meeting they are having. Perhaps investors wanted to see something more material than ring tones? Either way, AAPL is (hopefully) going to crash the NDX, which I am short.

Thank you, Nostradamus!

It is difficult to make predicitions, especially when they involve the future. The fact that you are so 'absolute' in your case is laughable at best. Why try to predict that which you do not know? Just react my friend - that's all you can do!

Bravo! You are the first person I have seen on ET to grasp this idea. Perhaps the marekts appear "cheap" because earnings are going to drop significantly in the future...

I learned the hard way that the last 20 cents in these types of trades can become the most expensive. Sell way the heck out of the money, close at 20 cents and have a nice day. Oh yes, watch the vols in the process.

Are you saying break up the butterfly trade into two separate vertical trades?

I am so sick of AAPL.

LETRX or TRF at a discount.

Maybe this has something to do with WMT being down? Alot of bizzalls for the MS analyst to downgrade the largest retailer in the country! Kind of sends a message, eh?! -------------------------------- Out of the Gate: Wal-Mart Cut to "Sell" Thursday August 30, 10:25 am ET Merrill...

Whatever S&P's morivation for the report, I hope the market absolutely crashes into 1996 territory so that I can buy alot of great names at cheap prices to hold for the long term.

Notice how they had Mandy Drury from CNBC World sitting in for Melissa Francis last night on On The Money? Mandy Drury is my favorite! Kind of tells you something - looking to retool things before Fox goes live.