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    Think Or Swim and Options on Futures?

    what broker are you with that allows cross margining between cash options and futures??? you cannot cross margin between cash/equity products and futures products. for instance, between es options and spx index options; or between es futures and spy options; etc. ...at least not with...
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    Interactive Brokers margin requirements

    they did this last summer (double the day margin maintenance). i'm surprised they locked you out of the account. i thought they allow closing trades when you exceed your margin maintenance.
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    Exxon shatters profit records

    stfu already, if you don't like paying $3.50 for gas then ride fucking bicycle. exxon can charge what they want, just like the supermarket and drugstore and your dentist can charge whatever they want. god i hate cry babies
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    GOOG will close green on friday.

    another paper trade gone bad.
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    The BIG Picture... it all rests on housing?

    some of you are out of touch with reality. sure, it's easy to say "we need a recession" if you're well off, but there are millions of people living paycheck to paycheck, and a recession would mean loss of jobs or cuts in wages. that is not a trivial thing for the people who are raising a...
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    GOOG suckers

    you made the right call but for the wrong reason. in other words you were lucky. you had a 50/50 chance of being right. goog went down not because they were overvalued but because they missed earnings. there's no way your trading program could have predicted earnings. i would not trust...
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    many new lows during the rally

    you are arguing a different point. this is not about how many stocks are making new highs. this is about why there are so many lows when the market is rallying. i remember the same thing happening during the nasdaq implosion of 2000. throughout the mini rallies, you would continue to see...
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    many new lows during the rally

    even with yesterday's strong rally, many stocks are making new lows. that's usually an ominous sign.
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    market making

    yes you can. you just have to know how to do it :cool:
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    Maria Bartiromo on Jay Leno...

    how many tablets of viagra would you need to accomplish this?
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    Maria Bartiromo on Jay Leno...

    marriage and old age does that to women. it does it to men, too, but men have a better chance of fighting father time than women do.
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    Fed will do what at 2:15pm Wed?

    http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/Workpaper/2005/WP0507.pdf that uses options on ff futures, not the futures themselves. accordingly, there's a 59% probability of a 50 bp cut and 28% probability of 25 bp cut, as of today.
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    well the law applies to an owner-occupied primary residence. if you bought a second home, i wonder if the bank would claim it wasn't a primary residence and go after it. but regardless, why would you be floored? your credit would be fubar for a long time.
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    New PC. What to do now?

    b.s. software firewalls do not slow down your machine or make it unstable. i've been using them for 7+ years, even on slow ass 500mhz machines from the 1990s era and they have no impact on performance in any way.
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    Multi Monitor Video Card

    what apps were they running that needed 4-8g of ram???? that article is full of shit. i have 3g with vista and i found it to be overkill. i think 2g is probably fine, but the extra 1g was only $20 so it's no biggie.
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    George Bush, GOP Turn to Socialism

    well i won't get a penny of that $150b , but my tax dollars will be used to pay it off plus interest. meanwhile some loser who paid $0 in taxes will get $300 back. how is it a "rebate" when you get money from nothing? i'd love it if i could get a $100 rebate from sony for not buying a tv...
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    75% chance of a 50bp 25% of a 25bp move..

    where are you getting your data? i see something different. 48% probability of -50bp 24% probability of -25bp 15% probability of -75bp 12% probability of 0bp
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    Ramifications of walking away from your house

    calif is a non-recourse state, and this is a purchase loan for an owner-occupied property, so i think what you said is not true. one other thing for the o.p. to note: if your friend walks away, the lender will file a 1099 to indicate capital gains on the amount that was deficient when they...
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    Software for Risk Management IB

    are you saying that you're so undisciplined that you're not able to exit a losing trade on your own and need a computer to do it for you? god help you all.
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    hyperinflation

    hyperinflation is 20-50% per month or greater. it's a possibility in our lifetimes but not in the foreseeable future. to reach those levels of inflation, the gov would have to print large amounts of money comparable to the national gdp, in a matter of months. we're nowhere near those...
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