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Could you please send another copy of your paper to Barclays and highlight the portions relating to "pernicious fraud" for them. Isn't your argument that markets are not rigged? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-25/how-barclays-got-caught-red-handed-pernicious-hft-fraud I expect that the...

Several sources have told me that the average lifespan of naked option underwriters is about seven years. I have never found a direct conformation source to confirm or deny it, but based on decades of trading, it is unquestionably true that by far the majority of traders over-trade...

To help your math, Wikipedia says in 1962, Warren's investment alone ( not including his partners) was worth 1 million dollars. Back in those days 1 million was serious money.

I use soft stops and no target prices on my stocks. To sell I use technical analysis to exit. I am often out early in trends, but can re-buy or move on. I have BBs and MAs on my charts, but only as guidelines. While indicators used to work better a decade ago, I find the choppiness of the...

Didn't vision get the old PFG Best best clients? If so, how about a name change to FMOSOY futures?

A clue may lie in this question: what economic value does government actually produce for society? (Cost/benefit analysis) So if you grow oranges, then orange eaters buy your oranges and you feed your family. If you produced nothing at all of "economic" value then the lazy orange farmers would...

.... and here is a question I have for you. Why is the government needed to stimulate growth (real or not) at all? Government is like cancer, it grows larger until the society body dies of starvation. Socialism borrows everyone else's money until the system collapses. Capitalism is supposed to...

We might call this a "niederhoffer" spread (or "bent over spread" in options slang) with two legs. I don't know who gets the credit for it but it wouldn't be me!

Probably a whole lot better than the broker's margin department and compliance department would be sleeping that night.

Did you work out the margin call you would have recieved had you been assigned the shares yet? Could that have something to do with your missing 120 dollars? Respectfully asked: Just curious, who taught you this method of trading?

Perhaps something like: please let my son trade options with your firm and don't be hard on him. He is a good boy. Signed my mom.

To neither defend or attack TDAmeritrade since I don't know the details, but .... was it possible that you got a newbie on the phones or that they thought they were protecting you from an error or something else? If this happened a lot then you have a clear cut case, but if this is a one-of...

They could google capitalism as well. (I realize it's an outdated concept in some countries these days. :D )

We are already long in the liquidity trap phase of too much debt. Look at what happened in Japan with 1 quadrillion yen QE and Japan started with a massive trade surplus unlike the US due to the Triffin Dilemma. We have been in deflation for a long time already. Therefore they can co-exist since...

+2 LOL

Has your paper been published yet? Someone should send this lawyer a copy of it : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-07/famous-big-tobacco-lawyer-launches-class-action-lawsuit-against-hft There are still those who claim smoking cigarettes causes illnesses! And if the lawsuit is about...

I suspect that the different margin requirements are due to the perceived quality of the stocks and the total float within brokerage hands. Margin is to protect the broker against retail defaults since they will have to make good if you don't. They prefer trades on highly liquid items. As a...

I recall reading that the German courts said Germany couldn't participate in QE? Has that changed? If Germany doesn't participate then who funds QE in Europe - Belgium again?

This is troubling to me: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-29/dust-bowl-conditions-have-returned-kansas-oklahoma-and-north-texas Everything in nature cycles. Only human minds can create things that go exponential in one direction forever - like the stock market for example. But who are...

+1 True, although there was at least one shovel ready project to create jobs for the potentially unemployed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIG_bonus_payments_controversy A solution is definitely coming - the trick is figuring out when. (I hope the middle class has there shovels ready.) The...