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Looks like a worthwhile trip.

great post DeeMan: Thank you. It good to see so many of the old timers still around on this site.

My point stands. Certainly a citizen can be declared an enemy combatant. However, that person is not subject to prosecution by military commission as clearly shown by section 948C. of the ACT. entitled; Persons Subject To Military Commissions. it states. "Any ALIEN unlawful...

Re-instituting the draft would require action by Congress, not the president. There are a few bills introduced each year to do exactly that. All of them by Democrats. I believe Rangel or Conyers has pushed for it. The military doesn't want it, the country doesn't want it and the Congress...

Perhaps you missed it but the habeas corpus exclusion does not apply to US citizens. As far as geneva is concerned, the conventions clearlry state "lawful" combatants. By definition, non-uniformed personell are "unlawful" combatants and therefore do not have protection under the accords...

I suspect that some on this board may be unaware that general Giap has said in his biography that the North was ready to surrender until the US Left/Dems became so vocal in their resistance to the war. That gave the North their reason for hope. As regards Tet in '68, it was a complete...

True, I am assuming that.

I think they are counting on gridlock. Notice I said that I was not saying those things would be successfully legislated. Just the perception of those changes may create a market break.

I think one thing worth considering is that if the Dems take the House we are quite likely to see an attempt to increase cap gains and dividend taxes. Also, a nationalization of the entire health care sector of the economy. I'm not saying it will be successful but it will be perceived, rightly...

I agree. IB

Some good advice here Mydann. I have been trading options daily since 1990 and have never encountered an early assignment. Where did you come up with the number 27% of contracts are assigned/exercised early. I'd be very surprised if that is correct.

CBOE.com

It sounds like you are asking about early assignment rather than assignment at expiration. If thats correct, then thats where the 1% is coming from. I don't know the exact percentage but it is quite low. Don't worry about it. Usually if the price of the stock is less than the strike price...

I'll just put my 2 C in here. I've been trading options since 1990. Still at it. But I wanted to parse a couple statements about 80% this and 40% that as blow out traders. I think you guys may be talking apples and oranges. One says "80% of all options expire worthless" and that may in...

Its simple. Just unplug it and slide it out. Slide the new one in and plug it in. Load the OS and you're good to go. You'll need to re-load some drivers so have your resource disk handy. If its XP you may not need that even.

My HD died after five years. It did rattle. Get on Newegg and buy a new HD or two of them. Install is a piece of cake even for a non-geek.

Falling through the ice and drowning> Its helped me be reasonably cautious. I don't want to change because it has kept me alive.

With so many GOOD brokers available why would you even look at this particular broker in the first place? You are obviously new to this game. Nothing wrong with that. We all were at one time or another. You were obviously underfunded and didn't know what you were doing. Did you really...

Don't think much of KS. HAve you considered the Azores?

IB