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these offshort accounts avoid paying taxes on. Unless you report to the IRS, it's impossible for the IRS to track down unpaid the owner of these offshore accounts. 1. interest on bonds, t-bills 2. dividends on stocks 3. capital gains if you don't want to pay the us taxes, leave the...

the economy won't collapse,,,just that a lot of companies will change after capital restructuring, chapter 11, change of ownership...like many companies who messed up due to greed and mismanagement. Look at GM. GM was once the biggest 'private public listed company' in the country,,,and now...

a decline in price. it took 6 months just to drop 8% in the market you need to be heavily leveraged short positions to make any serious profit or return on your capital for position traders. it's call a relief rally.

traders here can't even wait 1 day.

A trader's most valuable 'capital' is his time and energy.

As for the trading 'business',,you need positive cashflow,,no paper profits...cash needs to come out of your account. a good business needs positive cashflow OUT.

'value' in the classic meaning of value such cashflow, assets, balance sheets, debt, and calibre of management and overall economic conditions. p/e isn't the only thing that value is derived.

Mortgage rates would go to 10% and nobody would borrow and price of homes fall. Decrease in borrowing would lower rates. I don't need the gov't to decide what the interest rates or what price of homes are. US has the lowest price of homes from income/house price ratio because of 'free...

trading like a robot scalping for pennies makes you a robot. these prop firms might as well get a computer to trade for them. may the AT&T stock is bad stock to 'daytrade' for pennies.

Chapter 11 Business operations continues as usual book and customers and suppliers all get paid, just ownership of shares is transferred. large institutions and funds own these failing financial banks so they are asking for a 'FED bailout'. what don't you understand.

The brokers or participating brokers and exchange own this market. They can enforce their own rules.

Why would the SEC enforce it? The exchange or the brokers/market makers can enforce just by switching the no naked shorting. No need to 'enforce it' SEC is useless.

you won't be able to short 2000 shares on the bid. futures /nasdaq doesn't have uptick rule.

i disagree, shorting is much faster down..cause their is nobody on the bid. only the market maker and market maker ain't going to hold to those shares..he'll dump it. it harder to go up because there is always more shares than cash in the market. shares can be printed or borrowed. everybody...

either they manage their books or face insolvency like any other business. any robot computer can start a hedge fund in bull markets and trade.

The reason for Bear Sterns demise was overleveraged. Their hedge funds were overleveraged and their bank took away the credit lines and their assets became illiquid and customers started to withdraw money cause they want to cash out in a recession. Funds need to manage the risk of customer...

IB is the only broker that admits of openly be on the other side of the trade of it's clients. and trades it's own account. some brokers don't do any prop trading. you were stopped on intentionally if market maker sees your stop.

IB trades it's own account. it's protecting itself. IB needs the cash deposits from traderse, citibank is cutting them off funds. All banks are reducing lending risk.

shut down the SEC and the brokers/traders association can enforce the rules themselves.

inflation is the destruction of wealth by the state when they print mone they don't have or borrow money to pay for wars they can't afford or gov't burecracy. 500 millions a year to support the bureaucrats at SEC for putting martha stewart in bars for 5 months. Cost the taxpayer 1 million for...