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bad move.... acat transfers take a long time, and under these conditions it'll probably take longer. you should have liquidated your positions into cash then wired the cash.

didn't you learn your lesson with sbux?

who cares about silly benchmark programs? use a stopwatch and real world tests, and you'll find what i and others have found: raid-0 is nearly worthless. you'll get 0-10% improvement. raid-0 is for suckers.

what if you're in a public place like a hotel or airport? how are you gonna secure it?

what do you expect them to say? "we're in deep s*** and it's best if you transfer your money to another broker asap"?? to the OP: why are you even asking this question?

sweeps into money market accounts are fdic insured, and sweeps into money market funds are spic insured since they are mutual funds and hence considered securities.

bank products at etrade have fdic insurance. etrade brokerage has spic and lloyds of london coverage so you're theoretically safe, but who knows when you'll get your money especially if there are tens of thousands of people filing claims? furthermore, if they shut down you won't be able to...

uh huh. you felt certain the market would be going up those two days but you decided to be neutral. suuuure. come on, how much did you lose, really?

i'm up $22700 this week, how about you?

the question was "how much does your broker pay on cash" not "what can i invest my cash in". efp's and cash are not the same thing. for one, efp's don't have the same buying power. secondly, if you need to withdraw money for something, you cannot withdraw your efp; you likely have to buy some...

trading isn't for everyone. if you can't make money in all types of markets -- and this year was different than the previous 5 in terms of high volatility -- then it's not for you. a career change might be a good idea.

anyone catch this part?

ddr2-800 is plenty fast for intel processors with fsb of 1333. you don't need ddr2-1066 or ddr3 unless you're planning to do some insane overclocking. when they start introducing processors with fsb over 1600, then you should worry about finding 1066 memory.

raid-0 is the most worthless storage technology out there. in enterprise situations where speed is paramount, raid-5 or 6 is used; no one uses 0. raid-0 is barely any faster than a single drive.

not that mfr specs mean jack, but since you asked... 15000 rpm sas drives by seagate have specs of over 175mb/sec for reading. notice how that article says the samsung ssd beats any "consumer grade" hard drive. in other words, they won't out-perform a 15k sas.

you're gonna get creamed thursday. did you bother to check futures before making your prediction?

why dont you just buy a 6-ton rv? it'll flatten any hummer.

there are two types of solid state drives, the inexpensive ones like the flash usb key drives and the ones that sit in hd cases meant to replace sata/ide drives. the latter are expensive but they are fast in real-world performance. however, a 15000rpm sas drive still blows the doors off...

looks like one "before" pic and one "after" pic.

why are you surprised? they've changed margin req with little or no notice many times already. by my count this would be the 7th time this year. it's one of many reasons why i now trade with another broker. you just know their policies one day will screw you over. i decided to not give them...