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These are great monitors, I have 3 of them, and that is a great price. If you are thinking of getting a monitor you would be stupid not to get these. Here is my old thread on them: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=225381

I am not a lawyer, so I don’t see the legality in holding money that you can identify as customer funds on deposit. If they can say, ok we know this much money is customer funds and it appears 10 to 15% may be missing, then how can they hold the rest for any reason? As some here have said...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-05/mf-global-customers-lament-safeguards-as-regulators-work-to-unfreeze-money.html “MF Global customers may have to wait years to get their money back if the futures broker is sued” So the basic question is what are you going to do if it takes...

Have any of you actually looked at your statements? Just looked at mine and they REDUCED margin, they did not increase it. They took initial down to maintenance, not the other way around.

Which would seem to be a huge deal but no one is addressing it in a substantial way. The nfa/cftc have always said that the money is safe and they didn’t need anything like the SIPC all because of segregated accounts. It would appear that is relatively meaningless now.

It is NOT one account, you have a separate account for each. The same thing is done at thinkorswim, but I actually get emailed my futures statement everyday even though from the trading software it all looks like one account. IB just doesn’t let you see your futures statement and they...

“Penson, Mizuho To Get Bulk Transfer Of MF Accounts -Source, DJ” So you go from MF Global to the great and strong firm of Penson?

I am not sure where the confusion is with all this. There are legally two separate and distinct trading accounts between securities and futures. Even though IB or others may sweep money back and forth behind the scenes the fact remains that you have two separate accounts. Cash and securities...

No matter what IB or any broker says there is no real protection against fraudulent or illegal actions. You can always sue after the fact but that is little comfort and may not do any good in the end. The only thing which can give you comfort is SIPC insurance, and you just have to make sure...

Are futures brokers like Amp or Velocity members of SIPC? No. Does IB’s website specifically state that they sweep cash from your futures account back to your securities account in order to get SIPC protection? Yes. Here is your link...

No, SIPC has nothing to do with a futures account, only a securities account. That is why IB and others sweep the excess cash out of your futures account back to the securities account to get the SIPC insurance. Anything in a futures account has zero protection at this point. I am not a fan...

And net net that can mean you have absolutely no protections and no insurance of any kind with a futures account at any firm. Even when IB sweeps your excess money in your futures account back to your securities account, all the funds in your futures account are completely at risk.

I have had multiple 6 figures with a prop firm and I know of a few people that have had multiple 7 figure accounts. The two firms that I would feel comfortable doing that with are Bright and Echo. If you are really worried about your money though, you would have to go somewhere with SIPC and...

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Thanks for the info. I tried your phone at the store and I liked it too, that helped me make the decision to wait for the new Nexus.

I saw that article referenced a few other places and after reading the comments on each of them it appears the author did cherry pick a number of low end phones to make the graph look a little worse. But he does have a point that you are at the mercy of your carrier is some instances. At...

Best place for audio/video questions or problems is avsforum. If you don’t like your blu-ray setup I am sure there is someone there that can help.

Don’t really know what you mean. I have my blu-ray player and plasma set up for 24p, and it is great. Again I would say the picture of blu-ray is better than any HD signal, but the thing that is really great is the uncompressed sound. You have to pay more for your sound system than your TV...

Couple points. They are not raising prices on blu-ray which remains at 1.50. If you are still renting DVDs then you are a dinosaur, blu-ray picture is noticeably better than DVD and the uncompressed audio of the blu-ray makes any DVD or HDTV signal from your provider sound like garbage...

This is the classic “pin” scenario. You already stated what you need to do by writing “You don't want to get assigned over the weekend so you need to close your position by the end of the day.” So that means you have to pay up and get out. You can roll the dice and wait until the...