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I'd like to attend. I live in lower Manhattan, I trade prop through a well known firm. I trade options too through Thinkorswim. I trade full time. Will gladly give you my home ph, work email and cell/blackberry.

They are targeting speculators because they are an easy target. I hate this too and doubt it will make it through but I understand why its being discussed. Trade off, they take out the little guy at a loss of significant but not critical liquidity. The gain is significant tax revenue and a PR...

Zdreg and Anaconda, you guys seem to know the UK situation on stamp duty etc and whose exempt and who is not. Would you please explain it more? It seems that if it happens, that will be the model because the UK stock market had been functioning reasonably well under it no doubt because of...

I believe Genesis are in there. It's a very old class C building

jd7419 is right. In the UK they have this but let's be clear, you don't get exempt by being "a trader in securities" defined as trading a lot. You have to be a regulated entity. Very big barriers to entry. Ever noticed that there are hardly any independent full time traders over there and...

Original poster you said that TOS are "giving you the fish" I am an account holder with them and have been educated in options by them for over 2 years now and they definitely do not give you the fish. They teach you to fish. Make that point in their chat room "trader lounge" and see what...

Charles Schwab dipped their toes into the hyperactive trading business and discovered that the gap between the minimum commissions structure they could take and the commissions semi-pros could take was the size of the grand canyon. There was no structure for them to make it work so they...

yeesh, sorry bout that, my comments didn't go through. try again.. Landis82, thanks for the reply, you sound like a credible guy esp if you were associated with "trader Vic". My scepticism comes from the fact that in my years of trading, the real guys don't use TD Ameritrade. Perhaps...

Interesting Mr. Pain I read somewhere recently that his safest place right now is prison. That gels with what you are suggesting. Indeed many of his investors were Latin Americans with undeclared assets and income and they are not coming forth with the fact that they lost money because it was...

Landis 82 Your were an ex-floor broker and you tade through TD Ameritrade? Do you pay their $9.99 equity commissions? I'm asking because no serious trader does this its not feasible. Not trying to be a jerk and if you don't trade equities or do but don't pay those commissions then...

TOS is a technology company run by traders who did not answer to suits. TD Ameritrade is a subsidiary of a bank. The point is that customer service and technology is top notch at TOS because if things aren't going right the founders will be directly affected and p***** off. It gets fixed fast...

can you see TOS top guys getting sidelined from trading to spend time at TD corporate holding meetings? That's a question I hope gets addressed on the call.

there is a new thread started on this but this is the better one

stock777 time and again when a big corporate broker acquires a little fish, the big fish imposes their beauracratic culture and model on the little fish. So no, they'll try and accomodate frequent traders but just like schwab did, they'll f*** it up. Schwab abandoned the highly active...

Fee hike is the killer for me. TOS stock commisions were already a bit on the high side but I tolerate(ed) it due to the multiple products, excellent platform. Higher trading costs will see me flee. Tom Sosnoff said many times that the gap between pro traders and his customers had narrowed...

I grew up and went to college there and spent many many nights in the pub they are talking about. How could he agree to an interview with the NY Times at 3 am after that many drinks? In the article he says that he still has his wife and kids but, his wife is his second one and she's 20...

so much religious goodwill but here's a question: What's the difference between technical analysis and organized religion? Answer: Nothing. Both are fiction. Nice stories but delusion.

If I were the son of a Madoff and having been in the business for so long I believe I would have said something along the lines of "Dad, being that you are managing large sums for clients including charities, endowments and retirees don't you think we should insert a custodial role here? How's...

If he is finished, he'll have finished with a boat load of money and that was always the plan so fair play. How about those institutional investors who are held to very high standards of prudence so they can't take levereged bets on illiquid, complex assets. So they outsourced and invested in...