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Not sure what your problem is. Current Quarterly dividend is .67 a share. Quarterly dividend for 2015 was .663 a share. Price and dividend yield changes every day. 4 x .67 x 100 / 81.36 = 3.294%

Please point to descriptions of strategies based on payoffs. All I can find is game theory general information.

Ha, Ha, Ha, how little you know. Want to trade onion futures? Well you can't because onion futures are illegal. The Onion Futures Act making onion futures illegal was passed on August 28, 1958 and is still the law.

Very easy to confuse the two. Probably why they are using the Hilltop name for the combined firm.

Looking for reviews from eOption, Investrade and Regal Discount customers. Anyone having trading platform issues?

As of Monday Jan 25, 2016 First Southwest is HilltopSecurities. Anyone having trading platform issues?

Thanks for the information.

Unless there is a structural bias in the traded instrument slippage should have a basic symmetry on entry and exits. Slippage ratios of 5:1 to 8:1 between entries and exits is not normal. More information is needed, such as a volatility measure before entries and exits.

Looking for good or bad experiences using brokerage firms clearing with First Southwest Company. The information I can find so far is not favorable to First Southwest.

Something wrong with your methodology. The spread costs both ways, opening and closing should have symmetrical slippage.

Total WTF. How can people trade options without reading even basic information about the subject? "and I'm nowhere near the 195 strike level". SPY at 199 isn't close to 195? Enjoy your current $2K profit. It won't last if you keep trading like this.

Returned PM.

IB is well known for having the lowest margin interest rates, but there is no margin allowed for stocks with a capitalization below $250 million. IB's list of US special margin stocks currently numbers 10,838. Which brokers have low margin rates for small cap stocks for debit balances over...

A very bad question as experience has shown me that no time frame is predictable. Most traders fail due to lacking an edge, excess leverage and poor money management.

Thanks for the BPT explanation. I had surmised that you had found this oddball royalty trust in an oddball way.

A 10% decline in a week isn't that big. BPT didn't even make the top 100 list for largest 5 day declines. Number 1 is SIXD down 55.65%. Number 100 is LIFE down 11.43%.

BPT is a rather obscure and lightly traded royalty trust. What made you notice it? PER is down 34% and SDT down 30% over the last 5 days.

Have you considered reading material on the basics of index futures before assuming things about them ? The stocks in the index pay dividends and longs of the index futures don't get those dividends. If you go long SPY you get to collect the index dividends and don't have to do a rollover...

Just a heads up that due to the 4th of July holiday the BLS will release the June Employment Situation Report on Thursday, July 2nd.

Why would you think that government interest rates would be high during a depression? T Bill yields went below zero in 1933. Here are interest rate charts back to 1919. http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2014/012614.html