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Interesting, but how would he explain $billions of write-offs and write-downs by the giant financial houses that have hundreds of traders in their employ?

FWIW, I put in offers to sell some '09 puts on financials again. Back in Aug. 07, I sold some on BAC and IAI (latter, broker/dealer etf, is very illiquid, sold jan08 40 put, and in panicky market got $2.5 for it). 2-6 weeks later closed them $.65 and .50 as market rebounded a bit and vol came...

Your shrink is in the right business, charging $200 to listen to your woes, given the successful rate of would-be traders. In fact, the traders' rate of success is irrelevant to him, so he wouldn't care tthat one out of ten traders he sees goes on to great success as all ten have contributed...

I've been in TOS live acct since this afternoon and just launched another TOS session and logged into the demo acct w/o problem. Could it be that your demo period is over (30 day, if I remember correctly) if you don't have real $ acct? TOS is the best broker for equity products options...

Thank you so much--I am very appreciative.

Conflict was my concern actually. 9200 came w/ a Nvidia dual head card, but no on board video, so the uncertainty is, if I pull out the original card first, I can only rely on plug-n-play of the new NVS, and what if no video comes up? Of course I can put the original back, but... I know...

gnome, I bought Dell Dimension 9200 (C2D 6600 w/ 2 gig ram) last summer and it works great for me. Now I am thinking of adding a dual DVI video card (mine now has one DVI and one VGA, so I am not too happy w/ the second monitor's resolution). I am thinking of adding a dual DVI video card...

He is too big to fail. Fed will bail him out, so no worries.

Good to know. Thanks. I will certainly find out

IB seems to be the only one that allows futures in IRA (I'm in same situation). I'd like to know the answer as well.

If you can wait, why not to see what will be available then, but the difference is about $100 bucks, give or take. PC is already so cheap. I just got a Dimension 9200 this past summer (E6600 C2D processor, 2gig Ram, on XP, etc) just before the Vostro line came out and have been so pleased...

Been doing futures in IRA and Roth for 2 years...Call IB and visit its website

You can trade stocks, futures and options and currencies all in one IRA account if you are approved. No other brokers for retail traders I know of offer that. Viva IB.

That's interesting, but I would think that the last available price will be the closing price during regular hours (though I have not read the specifics from OCC document so can't be 100% sure), otherwise OCC is really putting itself into a position it does not want to be because anything can...

If broker is IB, request a real time exercise on both legs, since there is no prem left. No exercise fees. Not sure if there are other fees since I have not experienced such situation.

ES 5-min bar OHLC (1:16-1:20pm) on 01-03-01: 1294.5 1360.0 1294.5 1352.5 or about 5% from open to high.

Oops, Colaeus already answered the question I asked above....

Reading this reminds me of what I have been wondering about these last few days of furious market and I post the question here for those with industry knowledge to shed some light on. Are trading bots making money these days? So much has been said about them, you know these machines used...

FWIW, I have not noticed any significant lag during the last two days furious trading and I do watch volume charts on the mini's. My config is Intel Core 2 Dual at 2.4ghz with 2gig ram and XP SP2. Internet connection is verizon dsl. On that pc, I run TS and 2 sessions of IB WS and two...

I just wonder why IB can't do a statement in PDF format.