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like IB gives a shit if their customers blows up their account. IB trades against the traders in intra-day.

Yes it is a big deal..300% increase in business capital cost to do business overnight. didn't i tell you this business changes overnight.

This is just like when the SEC raise the $25,000 daytrading minimum. They need more money for you to deposit. period. They are not protecting anyone!!! They are either seeing massive account withdrawals or their bank citibank is cutting off lending or credit lines.

no warning. basically they halted trading without warning by limiting money buying power in the market. effective today. 20% of daily options and futures is pretty big.

IB is a competitor in the market making game with other market makers who compete with each other in the trading pits..like dogs eating dogs

they just you to deposit more money. period! there are a few futures and forex brokers that make their money totally on commissions. IB is a market maker so do expect to be on the other side of the trade. most other market makers don't like IB. so if you trade with IB you get creamed in the...

companies like IB are market makers of options and futures. they need new money or new traders to replace traders who've left the arena or trading pits of hell.

what they have done is increase the cost of capital requirement for this 'business' if you can call it by 300% for intra-day trading. There aren't enough new traders opening accounts with IB. Limited capital and limited amount of traders that can trade with limited capital.

naked shorting is when no shares were available to short. they are betting there will be shares to short. majority of naked shorting is done by professional brokers/firms shorting to the market makers of those stocks who are on the buyside and they naked short huge.

shareholders of these companies don't want shorts to profit from the demise of the company. if you sell short, the shareholders have one less buyer to sell to.

don't cover 'til chapter 11

in capitalism, bad businesses file for chapter 11. chapter 11 is socialism.

because the idiots buying don't care if delivered cause they are short term speculators . it's an intangible piece of paper. it's a con game. making money with betting on short position is not fraud. shorts are big part of this con game.

remember, stocks of companies are just pieces of paper and the many companies have capital restructuring or issuing of more shares in recessions or need cash..

stocks that have naked shorting position of significance are usually bad stocks or bad companies or professional/ market maker shorts are betting on lower prices and can control the price. market makers need cash so any sucker who wants the stock, they will sell it to you.

banks pay zero interest on chequing accounts and pay prime. lend at retail or mortage rates. 50% profit spread. risk is loan default. bad loans. banks been getting too many bad loans. bank is insolvent when too many bad loans or bad investments.

there is always a reason for a 50% decline in stock price. there is fundamentally wrong with the business. just looking at the price decline in financials. when companies start selling it's assets it's because they NEED cash or face cashflow problems or sell the assets because the...

FED is giving money to oil suppliers and oil companies.

the price only goes up or down. investors generally own all sectors in the market. so if investors sell ALL sectors/markets go down. oil and commodities are the only sectors still holding out due to 2% interest rate. Bernanke would be remembered as the idiot FED chairman who...

the investors who invested the money into the hedge fund is 50% leveraged now the hege fund is leveraged another 50% so the hedge fund is actually leveraged 25% meaning 75% of the money in the fund is borrowed money!!!! the fund only needs to make 25% per year to make 100% return for...