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    Effective Monday, stocks with market cap under $100M will be non-marginable at IB

    Sure if you have what others don't it make sense to deny other access to the tool they could be using to compensate for having less of what you want to be useing with no competition at all rather than more competition. Its like building a wall. If you have 100000 lemons losing 50000 is a...
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    Effective Monday, stocks with market cap under $100M will be non-marginable at IB

    yes
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    Effective Monday, stocks with market cap under $100M will be non-marginable at IB

    Where will this end?? When nothing and nobody can no longer be trusted?? When society becomes a net loss will people then be happy?? This is a good song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYKWOXtWkzQ
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    Effective Monday, stocks with market cap under $100M will be non-marginable at IB

    OMG is this a joke?? Never peace from IB
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    Did you see the credit crisis coming

    I remember reading his bearish colums pretty much since the last bull market started
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    Americans say no to bailouts, even if economy is harmed

    lol :)
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    Americans say no to bailouts, even if economy is harmed

    You did not comprehend what I wrote, it could have been you who could keep your own money.
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    Americans say no to bailouts, even if economy is harmed

    Its realy simple you wish you could keep the money that were in your own pocket and envy those that end up getting them. It could have been you.
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    Americans say no to bailouts, even if economy is harmed

    I don't know if any of this happened by chance or not, but I think its quite neat to see how envy is channeled into the capitalistic mantra on such a grand scale.
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    I Hate Debt

    Debt is self defence, but has a cost.
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    I Hate Debt

    Having debt induces the feeling of being a prisoner. If u have no debt, government is on the other side of ur trade.
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    The Coming Crash Will Be Monumental

    The next fed meeting, October 29, scary month and number..
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    I'm rich!!!

    Lucky u, adverse broker randomness forced me out partly, adding now is a no no, I will tank the world economy if I do.
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    Wtf

    u might be right, but niceneasy mentioned them first :)
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    Wtf

    These were long term holdings bought over the years from 2002, small stakes. OK I did not expect this bear market to get this deep, but change in policy at the worst possible time certainly do not help.
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    Wtf

    Access to credit is not exactly evenly distributed, leh bsc etc can hold toxic mortage debt 30:1 or more, IB wount let me hold AAA debt 3:1 sic..
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    Wtf

    Hilarious, maintenance margin requirements for investment grade bonds are now 35%. Pretty damn strickt. When they first raised from 10% to 20% in august at least they bothered to send out an e-mail first. ARGH!! forced to sell at the bottom..
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    I really hate say it, but I think there will be suicides over this

    Working for a living might have been ok in the land where income is not taxed and savings are not stolen.
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    Wtf

    Thanks for answering, yes thats probably what I have to do, I hold 150 issues so them dipping at the same time cannot be the cause, and even if it were my capacity should have bounced back up by now, but it has not. It seems I can now hold a bit less than 3x my equity, the 25% maintenance margin...
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    has the market tanked because of online brokers?

    I did get my account partially liquidated, due to some kind of change, but doubt that have much of an impact in the greather scheme of things :)
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