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@wilburbear ....you still haven't worked on that reading comp have you ?

Really.."you'll have a half dozen startups "... That will be under water when your pre-lunch trade from your example goes South instead of North. I'll also argue (rhetorically) that many smaller capitalized traders have probably been saved from themselves by this rule than have been hurt by...

What are you hoping to accomplish ? maybe an ET march wearing hats or something...who should lead ? Lawrence or sweet bobby ?!

I spent 2 min on your links/story so apologies if I don't have the facts correct. you were in an investment that was 3X short in a bull market and on margin as well ? Is this correct ? If so,are you complaining about the net result or that UBS permitted you to be in it ?

see my post #15

@Sprout. Thank you for the response. I may not have been too elegant In my post of "what trade did you execute" for which I apologize, I know you have put a lot of time into expressing your concepts on this forum. What I was trying to ask ,is in general term, what vehicle and structure of a...

While I respect the academics...what specific trade did you execute ? It would be great if you followed through with a a trade from your charts. Thanks. I have my theory and vehicle but with out execution it is....just....theory. @Sprout I have actually implemented concepts see from your...

If that is a starter/troll....do another ET search, it's all been covered. Welcome anyway.

Wilburdude.....don't worry you are not enough of a threat to the Man to have such conspir theories. But, I do think it is kinda ironic that FB, is now considered the Man !

Tell me, I'm confused. how is "Facebook forcing.." I do not, by choice have a FB accout, tell me again how do they force me ? You guys get it, yet ?

So help me out here, if you don't like what FB is doing with your info, why engage with FB ?

Then why do you use FB ? Is someone forcing you ?

I get where you are coming from. But to digress a little....weren't policy holders of AIG contracts getting a little nervous in 08/09 before Hank helped them out ?

Yeah, this is what I want when I create a FI portfolio. To be "waiting for a claim to be paid on MY ENTIRE PORTFOLIO in the event of ...bankruptcy". ALSO....At these i rates I consider CD/treasuries as a cash substitute, not a investment portfolio. But that is only my view.

And to answer the OP's original question..NO. Many more factors/Greeks involved, as the responses indicate.

And my two cents to the question the OP asked. Obviously this is very generic....Ladder a portfolio of corp and muni (depending on domicile of state) individual bonds, keep the credit rating relatively high with the bulk of the fixed income portfolio. You define "bulk "based on investors risk...

In addition, even if they did not go belly up, you have the honor of paying very high fees on what is essentially a short fixed income port.

So could he do this 5 out of 5 trading days ? I guess so by these definitions because the 12k is available/settled at the start of each day ? Thanks

Even though no margin is used and everything settles next day in your option example....aren't you still in violation of the 4 trades in 5 days, if under 25k ?

By definition, if you had true consensus you would not have a functioning market of any type.