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Wouldn't you say that everyone has their own rate of inflation? It depends what you're spending. Here are some large categories for me, in approximately descending order, and what my observations have been over the last 2 yrs: mortgage interest: down (refinanced recently) property tax...

Thanks for your book, Mark. It is indeed an excellent intro for aspiring traders--the first such book I have seen. I wish I could get more people to read it. I've recommended it to many people, but I think most are too lazy to read it.

Maybe I am in error, but I am pretty sure that they charge me for both sides of it in a cash account. In the margin acct I have, it would be 6000 minus the credit.

I'm interested in learning forex. I opened a paper trading account with forex.com. They pester you constantly wanting you to fund a real account. After a month, they took the account down, and told me that I should fund a real account. How am I supposed to figure this out in a month? I...

This is just another example of markets recovering prior to recovery of fundamentals. The market is always ahead of the game. Right now the TV is full of people saying the stock market should not be going up because there are no jobs, more foreclosures to come, and now the beginning of...

You must remember signing dozens of pages of legalese gobbledegook when you opened your IB account. Did you read it? (Me neither.) Anyway, I'm sure their butt is covered. Doubtless it says that they can change your margin requirements whenever and however they want to. Plus they have...

Muriel Siebert--first woman in American to become a billionaire without marrying or inheriting the money.

I have a small cash (IRA) account in IB. I find their margin calculations strange--or maybe I just don't understand them. Here is one theoretical example: 1. RUT, using Oct iron fly: +540p/-600p/-600c/+660c For this fly, the credit is about $3225, but the margin is $12,000, and the...

I see our forum got promoted, even ahead of ETFs. Even better than being on TV. :cool:

Right on, and double right on. The prudent man does what all the other prudent men are doing. He does not detour from standard practice, no matter how reasonable the alternatives might be. He has to blend in by doing what everyone else does.

I'm just glad to see it discussed in the mainstream media, however poorly it is presented. The more people who are trading, the more liquidity we will get. And hopefully a few of them will even make some money.

Perhaps many who use covered calls during a bullish or sideways market are doing so because we find them less scary than holding "naked stock." With that philosophy in mind, one approach (and this is only one approach) is to look at the remaining time value of the option. The time value is...

Consider learning some options trading; you can then trade a delta neutral system along with your trending system. Trade them both all the time and your returns will be smoothed out. Or go heavier on one or the other depending on market conditions.

I have seen these dramatic changes in margin overnight as well. I assumed that they are not updating some things intraday, but are doing it overnight. As best I can tell, this margin calculation gets updated several hours after market close; the reason I think this is because I have had the...

and how would we know if we were mentally affected, anyway....

I have had trouble shorting it before. I only tried once, though, so I don't have a lot of experience. I am long DBB right now.

You are so wright.

Experience is a hard teacher; she gives the test first, the lessons afterward.

It wasn't clear to me whether I could insist on the closing price. I did not bother. We are not talking about a huge sum--it's more the principal of the thing, and the question in my mind as to whether I should be using them at all.

Interesting idea, but I don't know if it's that simple. I'm a woman, and presumably have normal testosterone levels for a woman, but I take plenty of financial risks--not crazy ones, but more than the average bear. While my approach has hurt me sometimes, on balance it has paid off for me...