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Curious who are the primary traders of SPY options. Is it big institutions and hedge funds? I am a small fish in the scheme of things and fly under the radar but those markets are quite busy and its common to see large positions on the tape all the time. I find it interesting that all you hear...

They are quite liquid. They are the only options I trade. I sold short the 226 puts yesterday expiring this Friday for an average price of 1.09 and the final bid/ask on them today was 0.64/0.85 :) I did not buy to close since i want to be put stock. I did sell short the calls (naked) in the...

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547 "In at least one of the war rooms in New York, they’d already started celebratory drinking by the afternoon, according to a person there. Elsewhere, calls quietly went out that day to tell key people to get ready to be...

Everything Apple makes (except the mac pro tower) is made in Foxconn in China. Would if China decided to halt all Apple product production how would Apple handle this? Can they survive long enough? how long would it take to bring back factories to the US or elsewhere?

Do we have any credible sources for this story? Are they as credible as the sources for the 5 year old died in santas lap as he asked for his last wish sources?

We should not send American men and women to die when there are plenty of Muslims in the middle east who can go there and fight. Why put our people in this fight? We have no business getting involved in Syria. It is time we focus on fixing our own issues here at home.

What about the Genocide happening in other parts of the world? You never seem to hear about those situations. It seems that the one the administration cares about right now is Syria.

Dilettante Chelsea Clinton after spending 12 years in college and then a year or two as a 600K a year occasional special interests reporter for the NBC is being prepped for 2020. The Chelsea for America site is being prepped for her future aspirations. The media and Clinton machine are working...

But if you have enough trading capital where you make enough money to satisfy your needs and live a low stress life there is no need to try and play big I find it suspect myself Actually a lot of people live trading their own money and not having to deal with other people and the related...

I am amazed at how many people think you can get free lunches in Wall street.

Pay all your taxes. I sure do, You do not mess with the IRS. They will take you down at the worst time possible when they can go back and nail you for the max number of years which means monster penalties, potential jail etc.. Do not be greedy. Make your money, make sure the US gets to wet...

So its illegal to try and be an illegal market maker using a couple of accounts to make markets in illiquid stocks?

IF you are good why do you want to trade other peoples money. Dealing with people is a pain in the ass. You are better off trading your own capital and on your own terms.

yeah this is why they are not on my list of firms to look at. There is enough risk in trading, don't need that level of uncertainty in addition to just the trading risk.

One of my brokerage accounts now show 350K total cash and cash alternatives (TD) FDIC covers 250K does TD offer the extended FDIC protection like etrade? by combining different affiliated banks and splitting it amongst them? 70K of that TD considers cash, the rest FDIC. is the cash amount...

I am a retail trader and i have been making consistent profits. I only trade SPY and its options.

Why do people choose to deposit and trade with those kinds of firms in the Cayman islands? Just that would make me nervous enough. Kang obviously did not need to worry about PDT his accountsize is big enough to stick with the big firms like TD etc..

Man this is why I split my account over two firms (td/etfc). Too paranoid about these firms disappearing and all your hard earned money gone.

They probably took off with the money and ran. Hopefully you did not lose too much.

This is why its better to pay more and get a quality phone. I finally decided to jump into the whole smartphone era and swapped my flipphone for an Apple 6s plus and it is really nice. Definitely would last me 5 years easy.