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You guys know what the answer is... right? Robin Hood and all the others are going to be forced to raise margin requirements exponentially. Is that ok? You can't be a broker and face the public when you let some guy with a tiny account lose his life savings (and more) on something like GME...

Not surprisingly the media seems to be missing lots of the nuts and bolts of how all this stuff works. They are giving the public the impression that "the little guy" (whoever that is) should just be able to short out of thin air in order to stick it to "the man" (whoever that is) - or vice...

Of course she did. And AOC and all the others... oh the humanity!!!! Because those folks on the Hill need to kill off another month of sound bites and virtue signaling and endless hearings about yet another topic that is anything but working for the people of the country in some meaningful...

It always surprises me the number conspiracy theorists and anti hedge fund people posting here - not sure why, but you guys are supposed to be traders, right? I watched as Tucker Carlson tried to get Charles Payne to explain this to the public last night. They missed the ball pretty badly, but...

IB has gotten bigger and bigger. At some point you have to make the decision to either build your infrastructure in house or outsource it. A lot of large organizations have opted for "cloud solutions" - and it always surprises me how many people in prominent positions don't realize that "the...

I think the (lack of) communication is the most disappointing aspect of this event. Everyone knows and expects that tech will experience issues, but IB needs to do a better job of getting in front of these things quickly on the communication front. In terms of being down and mentioning a...

Status page still says everything is totally fine. Has something bigger happened? Did the entire company just walk out or something? Feels that way.

Unable to connect here either.

Cramer is a crackpot, but he can read stuff on the internet like everyone else.

The "working from home" angle is another fascinating one. As you said, suddenly all these companies that would never allow more than a "once in a while" day working from home have totally shifted their operations. It will be interesting to see how much of this sticks when we back off the...

I see this a bit differently. It's widely believed the vaccine will have comparable efficacy to the flu shot - maybe 10-50% effective per season depending on strain and a host of other factors. It seems generally accepted in the medical community that Covid will continue to exist, develop...

I'm not rebooting my machine regularly, so the autorun stuff shouldn't be kicking in. Seems like something IB is doing on startup.

All you TWS gurus out there...it's happening again. I was forced to upgrade TWS, now I cannot turn off the automatic upgrading. Every few days it's autoinstalling a new version. IB's FAQ page says to get the "offline" version. I did that and it's still upgrading constantly. I also found the...

Here's my issue with the reporting of numbers. I don't see anything that tells me the CURRENT CASE COUNT. In other words, how many people have it RIGHT NOW? The "confirmed case" numbers only keep rising and I feel like they are not subtracting those that have recovered. There should also be...

If you say something long enough....

All the guys that have been doomsaying for the past few years are suddenly right. LOL. The move back up is likely to be violent when this subsides.

There's a big difference between fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus. Much of the inner workings of monetary stimulus are solely the purview of the Fed and only get occasional mention on the financial networks when some ratios get significantly out of line. Trump's only concern should be...

I thought I read a very long time ago that Cramer had some legal issues of some sort and may have been banned from managing money for others? I could be wrong. I'm quite confident that a few weeks ago as we were pushing SP3400, he could be heard carnival barking on behalf of many names that...

At some point this will shift from every organization trying to outdo each other with their eliminating people from venues, shutting down offices etc... to BALANCING prudent measures with ensuring stability and confidence in our continued way of life. Closing the market would simply send the...