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Depends on your broker and how much they like you. I'd rather pay split fees than reverse split fees, but that's just me ;).

I almost bought this last week as a spec on some of the rumors (before the runup Fri afternoon). Congrats on your good entry.

Nanex didn't disappoint - pretty pictures and worthless logic. It's like the goldbugs who say every move up is the natural tendency of gold to appreciate and every move down is Evil Bankster Manipulation.

Read the company news.

I don't know about LLCs, but debt forgiveness isn't always taxable. For example, if you personally are insolvent (more debt than assets) when you get some debt forgiven, it isn't taxable. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc431.html

Congrats! Keep up the good work. With a little more track record like that, you'll have investors helping you figure out how to take their money.

ASHR has L1 quotes on nearly all the venues. I think for L1 you would need the US Value Bundle (edge and bats), and then the ala carte L1 feeds from nasdaq, Amex, NYSE. Cost $4.50/mo, plus up to $10 for the bundle depending on your trading (often free) For L2, IB only offers the biggest...

This is why you short the VIX when you're a trader. Because if it goes down, you make money on your short and if it goes up, you make more everywhere else.

Calculate the frequency of B events, possibly conditional on whatever you think matters, and value cash held aside as an option on B. If the option value exceeds A, hold cash; if not, invest in A.

He's trying to default and stiff his broker, ala the big Swiss move and resulting wipeouts. You might get away with it, but not for big amounts.

To be fair, they do give money back to people in cases where it's really obvious, like Ponzi schemes they bust. But if some guy trades options with inside info and gets caught and his assets seized, they don't ever go back to the market makers who got clobbered that day and make them whole.

HAHAHA, good one. Yes, the SEC is supposed to try to identify the harmed parties and return the funds, but sometimes it's just too hard, ya'know? Then they have to keep it.

InFoMe seems ok. What's the tax situation on those dividends, do you know?

Why would you want to be a small public company anyway, unless if to sell out to the suckers, er, public? All the regulatory costs can eat up a huge amount of your time and profit, expose executives to extra legal liabilities and personal trading restrictions, and for what? If your business...

You also get a limited number of L2 windows in TWS. I think it's something like the max of: 3 assets/$1M last months commissions/$800 Or you can pay for "quote boosters" for $10/month/extra window (which also give you more L1 quotes too, but you get tons of those anyway).

You can be faster or you can be smarter, take your pick.

With seven figure balances, you can negotiate with the big retail brokers. Some will be competitive or even (a little) better than IB, but it depends on how much they want your business.

You can do better

I read a 12 part series for why you should short Plus500 as a stock due to all the bad stuff they were doing to their customers. If you're thinking of becoming one, make sure to read if first.

If the underlying stocks can't be shorted, the market makers may stop making a tight market in the ETFs since they can't hedge and the ETFs could start trading at big discounts during a selloff.