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They ran head on into a short term liquidity issue.

ER2 overnight margins have been at $5250 since at least March 15th.

Options market makers (such as Timber Hill) make money by buying at the bid, selling at the ask and controlling risk.

The percentage changes every day, that is why I gave a date with the 17.62%.

XLF SPDR page says 17.62% as of 03/25/08.

The main tax consequence of being a futures exchange member is being subject to FICA tax on futures trading profits.

If the automated program has made you rich, then you can afford decent security. Most likely your automated program will blow up in the next month or two, so your concerns won't really matter after all.

When you open the account you should be able to name a beneficiary or set up a transfer on death (TOD) naming a beneficiary.

S&P website: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/pdf/index/CSHomePrice_Release_032544.pdf

The press release from S&P has the full data table.

Bloomberg is now showing T-bills at: 3 month .84 / .86 6 month 1.34 / 1.37

Those might be bad quotes due to the Good Friday holiday and Easter Monday.

You left out the part that the Fed is balking at any new deal for BSC.

What fraud ? Sleazy marketing is not fraud. The required CFTC risk notifications are given. Russell Sands has been promoting Turtles junk for decades. The Turtles' methods always show great results in strong trending markets.

It is still heating oil season and there is strong worldwide demand for diesel fuel. Europe has surplus gasoline to ship to the USA, but no surplus diesel fuel.

Interactive Brokers is one option, but at $0.005 a share it will be more expensive for orders over 2000 shares. TradeStation is another option, but their commissions will be more expensive for orders over 1300 shares. Better or more timely fills should make up for the sometime higher...

If IB doesn't notice the conflict between your ZIP code and the state selected, you can update your account information after your account is opened. No different than if you moved a month after opening the account.

Current dividend yield info for the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and DJIA are available at http://www.indexarb.com/dividendAnalysis.html .

IB claims to have and most likely does have the lowest costs in the brokerage business. They can easily afford to cut their futures commissions and provide for a redundant data feed. TWS quirks are due to very poor testing procedures, not lack of money.