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I like your self-confidence & persistence given the fact that you've just started trading. We'll see.

forex broker that allowes total hedging ( holding long & short positions of the same pair). Thanks.

I am very sceptical that with such a wide diversification it's possible to achieve such high returns.

Why would Iran be looking simply for a nuclear energy ( I would say agressively looking for nuclear energy with their new president since the first thing he did after being elected was to remove the UN seals ) while other countries with less fuel resourses ( but also less agressive policies) are...

a good free website for drawing historical spread charts. Thanks.

It means that the chances are the blitz plan is not going to work and it will become a long lasting conflict. But on the other hand Iranian president is very agressive in his rhetorics & he clearly & unfortenutely presents threat to the global security.

You can help starting the discussion by offering your opinion on the subject.

No word on US/Israeli attack on Iran though.

I see that xpresstrade offeres both futures & forex trading. I am not sure whether it's within same account though.

Because trading on margin is not allowed in IRA accounts. In other words no borrowing - only trading with your own money. After all this is a retirement account & trading with borrowed money is considered to be too risky strategy.

Then I am sorry. I am totally lost here.

If the market drops 20% in one day of course he is going to lose his leverage amount without a protection. But not necessarily his collateral if for example he keeps it in cash. But this possibility is very remote.

Where did you get this number 75% from? The guy was just trying to explain what is the ratio between his leverage & his net capital.

If you just started trading then there is no support for you claim that you can make 200% a month consistently. Besides you are too good to be true. Average succesfull trader would be happy with 7-12% return a month. You are way above average.

As far as I know it is tax payer's responsibility to prepare the capital gains & losses report. It seems to me that that is exactly the reason why they have contacted you. IRS only has your sell proceeds which were provided to them by your brokerage firm.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131497855/sr=1-1/qid=1139181214/ref=sr_1_1/002-9634295-8217658?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Very good book for people with conservative investing mindset. But you have to know what you are doing and to be well capitalized. This is not for traders.

If you never read any book about options selling why do you want to do that?

They may be not good for daytraders but they are ok for position traders. And they are relatevely cheap too.

Are there any differences between options on futures and options on indexes? I can't think of any except of underlying.