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Floor brokers had a "deck" of orders not a "stack".

More important the DOM does not show iceberg orders.

Naked shorting of GC/SI contracts is worthless nonsense promulgated by charlatan PM permabulls. A futures contract can only exist with one party long the contract and another party short the contract. How is it the charlatan PM permabulls never talk about naked longs? Why is it OK by their...

The subject "World's biggest sovereign fund losses $21 billion in the first quarter" has nothing to do with the news story posted.

"a futures long calendar spread" Depending on the commodity that is a volatility or seasonality trade not a contango trade. "So many bizarre answers for such a simple question." That is because you are not bothering to understand why contango exists.

Well, since you ask, yes. In Chicago things that grow are referred to as "ags". The grains have always been the leading ag futures. Still doesn't answer the question: What version of English uses "crop brokers" ?

This makes no sense. Make acc #1 easy to operate or close it down and move the money to acc #2.

"crop brokers" ? What version of English uses "crop brokers" ? In Chicago it has always been "grain traders" or "grain brokers".

Taxes aren't straightforward. Which taxes on earnings do you want to include? Federal income tax, FICA tax, state income tax, city/local income tax? What do mean by "regular 1099 income"? Interest and dividends? Or do you mean W-2 income? What you trade makes a big difference. Short term...

The S&P today had a range of 13 points, that is less than one half of one percent. How does anyone get squeezed in equity futures when the S&P does nothing much? As far as "identify the different prices that algo's are executing orders" - algo's are running all the time and executing at all...

Record 7 million are 3 months behind on their car payments https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-loan-delinquency-number-record-new-york-fed-2019-2 Unemployment Rate is at 4.0 Percent and people aren't making their car payments. The repo man is hard at work. Sign of a hollow economy.

You need to dig a little deeper. 10 credit unions failed in 2018. The big one was Melrose Credit Union with large losses from taxi medallion loans. Another with the same bad loans was LOMTO Federal Credit Union.

Lack of common sense that markets go up and down.

Does your buddy at work know that a covered call is identical to naked short a put? Too much risk on the downside for very limited upside reward. Best advice for covered calls is to not waste your time on them.

What total nonsense. Chaos ? What chaos ? Markets that go up are fine and dandy, but markets that go down are chaos ? Any moron looking at charts can see that markets go up and down and have always done so.

Just love this report: Amount Lost: $35,853,001 Number of Reports: 2,934 Reports with financial losses: 33.7% So does that mean that 66.3% of reports made money off the scammers? Sounds like fans of 419Eater !

I did a chart compare of UNG and the JAN 2019 natural gas future and see a very high correlation. You are doing something wrong in your comparison.

Firstrade is the first mainstream discount broker to cut stock and options commissions to zero. Who is next to go to zero? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/firstrade-moves-to-free-online-trading--stocks-etfs-options-mutual-funds-300701357.html

I hope you have been making your quarterly estimated tax payments.

This article is complete nonsense. The broker isn't named for a reason. The $40,000 wasn't invested in a normal brokerage account it was invested with Bernie Madoff. That "$160,000 account balance in 2010" was a complete fiction. The SIPC doesn't pay out on fictitious account balances. The...