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Ha! I knew when I saw DUNN Capital in Wall Street News it must be from Covel. DUNN had a good run from the 70's. They've had a rough patch since 2003. Their AUM got cleaned out last summer. Hopefully they can continue to make a comeback. I wish them all the best.

So you are giving Bill Clinton credit for the Internet/Tech bull market? Isn't that sort of a right time, right place type of accomplishment? I know that Al Gore claim's he invented the Internet but this is stretching it a little don't you think? Hillary just reminds me of the monster in the...

As long as we don't hear anything whatsoever from Bernanke today we should have a better shot at the upside. Please Ben, don't say anything else about your crazy socialist mortgage forgiveness ideas. This is America not USSR. That is all.

Well, in defense of IB, I have used them actively since 2003 and they have been very good on the whole. I don't expect good customer service/hand holding from them because that is not what I pay for. Their platform has been very reliable over the years. People do expect reliable electronic...

Open E Cry here I come. I will probably open up an account there this week. I have data on futures and stocks here though. Today (knock on wood) hopefully will not be a repeat of yesterday.

Ok, but you didn't answer the OP's question. He is asking how the margin is calculated and maintained on IDEAL positions.

Making sure their keyboard is fully functional. Nice work IB. Bang up job today.

I'm going to look at Thinkorswim. I have heard good things about them so far. I trade futures only so I need to see how they are but other folks have said they are pretty good for stocks and options. Always good to have a backup. I'm sure a lot of people lost money because of the outage today. I...

After this Ambac deal does finally close the market will probably react negatively to the news because of all the rumors have already run their course for the upside.

Dre or Dr. Dre as he is known in the industry, whose real name is Andre Young, had pleaded no contest to battery charges stemming from an incident where he allegedly beat Ms. Barnes, a Fox TV rap show host. Any more questions?

It is true that they make much more off of market making than in retail brokerage but the conspiracy theory they caused the outage to front run customers is probably a little out there. As I said earlier, IB has been unstable all day today not just at 2:30 and after.

Wow, we called this one I must say. Almost to the minute. Gasparino is the anti-Bernanke. Amazing!

Yeah, seems like those Bin Laden rumors would pop up on Friday afternoons and right around holidays after the market had a down week. I was stung on a few of those. Not fun when you are on the other side of the rumor.

Wow. Ambac again. Nobody saw this one coming :p

OMG is it down again??? I have a yellow status light and can see quotes but am not eager to make another trade with it going up and down like this. It is very unstable and the market is really active. This really sucks! Way to go IB.

I was just about to ask the same question about Thinkorswin. I trade futures and was asking on here earlier if anyone had any experience with them. I'll keep IB too but it's always good to have other alternatives.

Futures are back up but stocks are still down.

Yeah, IB = donkdown today. Come on IB get your crap together already. For those of you unfamiliar with the term... here is a useful illustration of IB's performance today:

It used to be that IDEAL and IDEALPRO could not be traded on margin at all, only cash. This could have changed but this was the way I remember it in 2006. Probably what is happening is that your forex position is taking up most of your available trading capital and they are closing you out when...

Yeah, i'm not talking about his loan. He obviously owes more money than he had to begin with before he started trading because over 70% of his starting capital was from a loan/line of credit. I'm saying I don't think he got a margin call from the broker in excess of is starting 72K plus the...