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Really? So you think the executives at IB are sitting in a meeting room talking about how to be protective mothers? It might surprise you that businesses usually impose restrictions to protect themselves, not their customers.

Here's an article from a custom computer shop that sources components from various manufacturers. Based on their experience in 2015, they indicate components with the highest reliability. For SSD's, they had good results from Samsung and Intel. For the conventional rotational drives, their...

That's different from what I recall, but thanks for posting this correction. In this case, why did IB triple the margin requirement for IRA futures accounts?

I don't recall seeing other class action lawsuits against computer hardware manufacturers. I think most of us just chalk up hardware failures to the nature of the industry. This lawsuit is a good thing, especially against a high-profile tier one provider like Seagate. It should scare other...

Interesting topic! Hope you post again on some tidbits from the webinar that prompt more discussion.

As I recall, the problem relating to futures margin in an IRA retirement account was that if you blew out your account in a fast moving market and you owed your broker money, there are regulatory obstacles to adding money to your account to make up the loss because you are only allowed to...

Is there any preference or pros/cons for HDMI vs. Displayport when using a single or multiple monitors?

I've noticed that energy research is widely quoted in the financial press from analyst Adam Longson (Morgan Stanley), Damien Courvalin (Goldman Sachs) and analysts from JBC Energy. Unfortunately, their published research seems to be available only to their clients, which I guess makes sense.

That's the name of the website, which matches the old name for the magazine. Apparently, they kept the old website name but changed the name of the printed magazine.

The publisher changed the name of this magazine to Modern Trader. I have seen it on the magazine stand at Barnes & Noble.

Mav, thanks for link. It's a good summary of the oversupply and price impact. Not sure if their analysis of WTI vs Brent reflects a strong fundamental relationship between WTI and Brent, or if they are just two futures curves in the larger energy sector. In recent years, these two markets...

I am intrigued. What is the right question?

Is It a Reversal or a Pullback? This is the question everyone who learns TA eventually asks. It's equivalent to asking, "What happens next?" Nobody has a definitive answer. I have seen many attempts to answer this question with qualifiers, but nobody really knows what happens next. If...

I would urge you to avoid buying gold bars and other forms of gold bullion (bars, rounds). One day you will want to sell it and when you do you are going to have a difficult time unloading it. Why, because the prospective buyer doesn't know if it's a genuine gold bar or a gold-colored bar made...

We are already there. Housing prices are back to their former bubble-levels. Thank the Fed for keeping interest rates too low for too long.

There was a chain of causality that caused the bubble and crisis. The government mortgage program was the beginning of that chain (aka, root cause as I indicated in my post above). It forced the commercial lenders to lower their rates and underwriting to become competitive with the govt loans...

If you're looking for a backup broker for IB, I assume the reason would be that IB is unavailable either due to servers being down in their datacenters or a network outage in their area. In this case, the most reliable backup broker would be one that is geographically distant from IB, relying...

The movie completely omitted the root cause of the problem where government housing agencies reduced home loan underwriting requirements for low income buyers who would otherwise not qualify. All the emphasis in the movie was on Wall Street. I read a comment on another forum which sums up...

Just saw it. I know this movie is named after the book, but after watching all the drama it should have been titled, "The Drawdown".

I read the cost of carry for oil is $1-$4 per barrel per month, where the lower end of the range applies when you own the storage facility vs paying more to rent storage. The cost of carry is generally independent from the price of oil (with the exception of insurance). In this case, there is...