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Where Is Everyone ? :p

How to handle this choppy channel ? :p

Can someone cut the barb wire please ? :mad:

Q: What do you do when you have opened a trade? A: Kneel down, and pray to the Trading God.:p

They are busy transferring money from your trading account to theirs.:D

Options on futures are 1256 contracts. They should be reported and taxed like futures.

Big payers can exercise their equity options tomorrow morning (Saturday). This has been discussed several times on this message board. Small guys like us need to wait until Sunday or Monday morning to know the final outcome.....

You can submit a exercise notice, when the market is open. However, you will not get assigned in the middle of a trading session. A lot has to be done, when the market is closed, to complete the exercise / assignment process. It is not instantaneous: Assignment occurs when an option...

Yes. Technology has changed everything. I started online trading via a phone line in late 1990's. It was slow, slow, slow .......... Along came cable modem and DSL. The difference is like day and night.:p

In some cases, New York City could be the winner: APRIL 11, 2009: The Tax Capital of the World States are raising taxes despite the 'stimulus'; New York is No. 1. In New York, Assembly Speaker (and de facto Governor) Sheldon Silver and other Democrats will impose a two percentage point...

One of my friends was laid off by Citibank 16 months ago. This is exactly what he is doing. Collecting the unemployment checks, and start trading for a living.:p

There is no tax on capital gain at Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to $91,400 of your foreign earnings. In addition...

I can tell that you are a real trader. Making money is always the top priority under any circumstances.:p If US government does impose the transaction tax, I'll short the hell out of SPY, until Republicans take over the Senate and House of Representatives.

By Paulo Winterstein Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian stocks fell the most in seven weeks and the currency tumbled after the government imposed a tax on foreign purchases of bonds and stocks to stem the real’s appreciation. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=avG7xRGZp9pQ

The following is the link to a video by Mckinnon regarding the transaction tax: http://online.wsj.com/video/wall-street-facing-new-tax-hit/0E5F049E-EF2E-4F73-9CDA-65DAC82AEE82.html

The creator and advocate of Java technology: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA):p

INSP, BVSN, CNXT, Nortel The first three have undergone reverse stock split, probably to avoid delisting. The last one has filed for bankruptcy.

Uptick rule did not prevent the crash in 1987 ( Black Monday ) either.

The highest return in the Bloomberg ranking was scored by the Medallion Fund, run by Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies LLC. The fund, which has an estimated $8 billion in assets, according to Bloomberg, racked up a gain in excess of 58 percent. That translates into firm profits of $1.43...

Just canceled, and then submitted a limit order to sell some ES Nov 2008 Options via TWS. No problem here.