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With respect, your question seems confusing and naive. What are you asking? If you're asking what the difference between a margin & a cash account is please ask google. If you're asking something else please rephrase.

How bout.... "More people lost more money after the 1987 crash, waiting for a repeat of the 1929 crash, than is pleasant to contemplate" Niederhoffer "Education of a Speculator" p 214

Please post a source for that data/chart. I've seen alternative numbers from multiple sources. I hate social security, I'm not defending it. What I do dislike, is the idea that many people hold, which is that social programs are, by default, evil. These same people turn a blind eye when...

Agree with Trader KGB. The spreads are as bad as you can get anywhere else (forex.com for example).

When you speak of welfare you're talking about a strawman/red herring. Welfare programs to support actual human beings are, by far, dwarfed by welfare given to fictitious entities (corporations). Of course these types of programs are not covered in the 'news'. Corporations aren't human...

DesertTrader, Thanks for your input... the mod wasn't too helpful. Can you provide info on the deal? I don't understand how the hell java is trading at 9.31 if the deal is for cash at 9.50... unless some people don't expect the deal to go through...

Ok... I'm starting to get a better idea.. but where can I find information on this, especially in regard to this particular deal? Another related question: how will leap options on JAVA be converted?

Where can I find information regarding the conversion ratio? My google searches render nothing. :(

I am trying to learn about how mergers/acquisitions work in regard to common stock held by the general public. In particular I'm focusing on Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year. Can anyone please explain and point me to resources which outline what happens to the common...

All of you are hilarious. Keep the optimism we're gonna need it in the coming years.

Um.. how about no stop. The market is closed why would you want a stop to execute? Your odds of getting a horrible fill are significantly higher after hours. If you can't sleep at night then liquidate or hedge.

With all respect if you don't know the answer to those questions you're gonna quickly have your money removed from you. There's a LOT to learn. Read historical forums here as much as possible. Most of your active stocks have decent options. Dow 30 for example. Also consider ETF options...

could you possibly have worse timing?

Dude, please, please, please! don't try to use MB Trading for options. They have no clue what they're doing. I had an account open with them a year ago... the only options trading that they allowed was covered call & outright call/put buying. I'm not certain how premium on covered calls...

enough said.

The problem is not the rating agencies. The problem is the fact that people are so uncritically minded that they put their very hard earned money into people's hands whom they know nothing about. They give their money to 'financial planners' or they listen to cnbc, or the wallstreet journal...

This isn't my chart but it makes sense to me. I think that the market needs to sucker in a few more longs. There are several ways to look at the charts.. http://evilspeculator.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2009-01-22_spx.png

Buddy. Put the moron on ignore like the rest of us. Knowing that you're not reading tripe is bliss. :D

... :confused: ... great reasoning! cus 'good' companies' prices never go down in a bear market. :eek: