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bonds, do absolutely what you think is in your best interest. It is your situation and your capital at risk of not be paid to you as dictated by your business agreements. I would not name the names of the firms. It is bad enough, I would not be surprised if certain organizations try to...

Funny that today Bloomberg released a story, in their NOV mag issue, about $7B USD in black box muni bonds - where the US gov, taxpayers, and citizens get robbed by banks, insurance co's, and financial advisors and the SEC and NASD are cracking down on prop.

Example of intraday risk - GM - WSJ reports that talks between GM and Nissan-Renault terminated 100406.

Roberk, thank you for this update. Could you please confirm with which organization Robert A. Green, CPA & CEO is associated? TIA

AP Ahead of the Bell: Saks Wednesday October 4, 8:07 am ET Saks Announces Special Dividend; Some Analysts Fret Over Move NEW YORK (AP) -- Upscale department store operator Saks Inc. late Tuesday said it plans to pay out a special dividend of $4 per share -- which amounts to about $550...

This thread is designated to discuss stocks of luxury retailers.

That technical problem with IDEALPro shows that they could not care less, absolutely... And it also shows that the majority of their staff has never risked $1.00 USD notional in any trade or investment in their life. There are still technical improvements that were mentioned over 1 year ago...

It is good to find that other traders see this - so obvious on close observation. I think the 400-500k up MM on IDEAL Pro is Timber Hill, LLC/Interactive Brokers arbitrage trading program.

Under the thread: Trading - Stocks - Risk of Intraday Price Shocks, someone posted a link to a story about fake press releases and the risk to market players. s/b more of a risk going forward as hackers could probably even get into Reuters or Bloomberg terminals if they wanted.

cboe.com has good data on options. Not sure if there is the exact historical information you are looking for - may want to look at other options exchange sites like ISE or contact OPRA

I have found a few research papers on the net, but have not posted links because they were not directly relevant/most likely of little value. Current takeaway is with high credit 3-5M north AVG daily volume big caps, ETFs, baskets, etc. the risk is low... Any additional comments? TIA

Don't have the stats, but in the realm of the financial world, what a cherry position. They can party their ass off, come in and report "gold was down 6% or company X got whacked 20%" with no concern and crocodile tears. And then posture like they actually know something. If you look closely...

Example of overnight risk - WARR into 092506 But this was a small cap stock...

A lot of interesting information - would be great to see some updates.

Thank you silk and nazzdack, and others - this is all very helpful.

Thank you Szeven, I have been searching for some academic/statistical analysis on this stuff - so far nothing - but not that this would necessarily provide substantial value. I imagine that there are countless examples of #@%'ed up and totally cherry price actions in stocks. I will take a...

Here are some comments from an '02 thread: Trading ›› how do YOU use margin? I think the thread has some great content. Quote from Rigel: There is at least one circumstance in which it isn't prudent to use margin. Scalping and margin don't go together. A trading halt with a...

The goal of this thread is to discuss the risk of substantial intraday price shocks when trading large equity positions in concentrated, levered, undiversified, short term strategies. To take a bit from a quote below, and comments on "freak losses due to price gaps, trading halts, order...

Agreed, this is a gross generalization: Compare Strategy/Tactics X for equities vs. Strategy/Tactics Y for currencies. There may be a higher probability for X to run into limitations because it can only be carried out within a certain size vs. Y because in currencies there is more size to chew...

Surprised to see 0 comments. No crossover traders here? I would think that at some point one has considered other markets - unless everyone is an ace in their respective market and they one shot, one killed it and are doing well right of the bat.