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people who complain about life in the usa are generally those at the lower end of the economic ladder and don't see themselves climbing any higher. if you have money to live the good life, the usa is one of the best places to live. but if you don't have money, you might have a better life in...

i vote for new zealand & switzerland. those are stable democracies and no one wants to invade them because they have no resources worth taking. maybe japan too. i wouldn't live in thailand or philippines because those places are too tropical. you get lots of rain and humidity in summer...

what the hell are you doing buying a home near the apparent peak of a local real estate bubble? you're lucky you're only losing 25k

your story makes no sense at all. unless you can explain your problem clearly, cohesively and with good grammar, no one's gonna listen to your rant. in the meantime i'll just assume you got a margin call and you didn't like the fill price. too bad.

damn, is that what old age does to your view of women? to me she's barely average. her arms are big.

not true. some index options are traded at phlx and ise.

you're all blowing this out of proportion. an area like san diego metro has hundreds of thousands of housing units. the fire has destroyed a few hundred. you think that a 0.08% reduction in housing units will have any affect on prices? if so, it won't last more than a month. as for...

weren't you the boob who lost a lot of money on starbucks calls, then bought more, and lost more money, then later said you would leave the board and never come back?

i've never experienced the OP's problem, but i have on multiple occasions had phantom trades. the thing is, i never placed those orders to begin with. they just executed out of thin air and then my account showed the new positions. but a little later they were busted and my account positions...

the situation i know of when a live order can be hidden is if you have tws installations on different computers, and set up their layouts differently. or if you copy a layout from another installation to yours.

no it won't. there have been a number of large fires in southern ca over the past 20 years and r/e prices were not affected in any case. the fire in 2003 was more destructive than this one and it didn't hurt prices at all. if anything the fire will boost construction employment in the...

a t-bond is a 30-year treasury, so the return is even higher. ten-years are called t-notes. say what?? treasuries are subject to federal taxes. fire your tax accountant before you get sent to the slammer.

there was a huge fire in 2003, too. you can see how much that hurt prices in 2004-2005.

do you guys who are congratulating makloda and stroking his p***s know that es options expiring on 10/19 are AM-settled? that means he missed the big drop that day. in other words he made virtually nothing with this paper trade.

i trade futures, options and stocks. it does get harder to profit when your account grows, but you should not be hitting a barrier at $1m. my % return does get smaller as the account grows, but we're talking about one or two percentage points per year that's caused by account growth. you...

lol, you think $1m is "bragging"? imo, bragging starts at $5m. i hope to be able to brag in 18~24 months. :p

did you make up that number? even in the usa, where mortgages are common, it's not 99%. in some places such as asia it's uncommon to buy homes with debt. people save up then pay cash.

i doubt the refi terms will be borrower-friendly. lenders & banks are not charities.

you are confused. money market accounts are fdic insured. money market mutual funds are not.

better would be money market mutual funds that invest in t-bills. they have the same safety, same yield, lower commissions and greater liquidity.