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Does identity theft mostly occur using keyloggers, and can I defend against them just by using password encryptors where all I do is copy/paste onto the broker's password field so that I don't have to manually type it in? That defense seems so rudimentary. I would think that sophisticated...

Thanks for the responses. As a Zacks research wizard user, I've always wondered with these backtesting services -- How can we be sure that the companies that create them aren't hording users' ideas and using them to their own benefit, either by incorporating them into their own account or...

I'm not talking about Wealth-Lab type software, where you have to specify a portfolio of stocks to backtest a strategy on. I'm referring to software that you define a strategy for picking stocks, and it will look backwards (based on a user-defined timeframe) and test against the entire universe...

I know you can't short stock or use margin in a 401k, but does that apply to shorting index mini-futures as well?

Doesn't briefing.com do the exact same thing?

Anyone?

I noticed that all 3rd party equity analyst research consolidators are a good 5-30 minutes too late to actually trade realtime analyst updates. How much does that stuff cost to get it direct from, say, Merril Lynch? Does that stuff run in the thousands/yr per firm? I know hedge funds have...

$Cost, I think you mentioned in a previous post that you went more or less all in cash. I know that VectorVest has some sort of macro indicator that shows whether or not you should be in the market at all (long, that is). Did this indicator have any influence on your decision to cash out...

When you make dismissive assumptions about what people are doing (i.e., "most likely they were trying to short pink sheet/OTC stocks") you're asking for impolite replies. :) But, in all seriousness, can you please address my previous post with respect to PARL TUES & ZLC?

No, I've gotten that message on PARL POZN and TUES over the last week (and limited shares on ZLC). None of them are pink sheet/OTCBB stocks. In fact, before I short, I always check to see that the $traded avg (i.e., 3mo avg vol. X previous close) is at least $1.5 million. If its $traded avg...

I short a lot, and since last week I've been getting the message "We currently have 0 shares available to short" several times from IB when before I'd never received this message. Has other people experienced poor short inventory with IB lately, or is it that they changed their messages so that...

Is it me, or does it seems silly that there was limit to what % of your account you could put on a single stock? Not only would it have been unrealistic to bet 100% on a single play, but the slippage would've been ridiculous. CNBC just rigged the rules for people who were loose and fast...

$Cost -- Pretty phenomenal returns this year (as well as previous years). What are you doing about taxes? Are all of your gains in a tax-deferred retirement account? I'm curious as to how someone so successful can take the sting out of the taxman's bite. :) Again, congrats.

Hey Broken Dreams, I feel for you. My advice is to go back to school and get a postgraduate degree in economics. Even if it means borrowing boatloads to do it, it would get you back on that fresh start you're looking for. Then you could leverage your school's career department and get a...

Right. I wish it were that simple when you have a combination of long and short positions. Go ahead and call IB and ask them how intraday BP is calculated with long and short positions. You'll get silence on the other end.

I suppose, but I don't think it's that simple. If the funds available says -10k, I don't think it's just a matter of getting out of 10k worth of positions because of the complex way that intraday margin is calculated.

Has the following happened to any other IB users out there? -- I put in a withdrawl request at night. Because I also daytrade my overnight positions are not large, and the funds available for withdrawl is more than enough to cover my request, so IB allows it on the website. Unfortunately...

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playa, Assuming your numbers are legit -- you are a STUD.

Thanks so far to everyone who's replied. If I short equities (both nasdaq and nyse), do props offer an advantage as well? I got a sense from reading other threads that props usually have alot of short inventory available, and, specific to NYSE stocks, they don't adhere to the uptick rule. Is...