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i mean in general it does b/c you can see the trend of the spread (if only brian hunter would have followed the trend when he blew up at amaranth) and the other chart of IV shows which months are more expensive and which strikes. i'd stick w/ ATM options in general as opposed to taking a flier...

for the love of God pls be careful buying physical GC/SI from places like this. if you "only" pay a 5-10% markup when buying/discount when selling consider yourself lucky. my $0.02 USD is to use GOOG to find a list of at least 5 places w/in 25 miles of your zip code and call them up and ask...

haha - don't worry about the haters. if you had said the family member was old and didn't want wire/ach that would've prevented a lot of questions about why it was done this way.

+1 to everything ORCL wizard said above. re using options to protect gains, one way is to use a cost free or nearly cost free collar. mark cuban famously did this when he sold broadcast.com to YHOO and didn't suffer when YHOO blew up during the tech burst.

i'm confused - you mean your own statements from brokers or like 10-k from sec?

well obviously there is IB which should def be on any list for individuals/small institutions. another one that is more options focused like you said is cuttone and co. http://www.cuttone.com/prime-brokerage-services another one is convergexprime that has great clearing/custody options...

+1. no, an etf can't have a negative price just like a stock can't although at one point i thought VG would after it kept dropping after it's IPO lol.

one way to possibly get a better fill is to cancel the order then resubmit and hope it gets routed to a diff exchange. if the price discrepancy persists for too long arbs usually come in pdq. if you still have the prob consider switching to ib which generally has the best execution...

+1. in the interest of helping those who may run into this prob in the future pls take the following steps. if possible, transfer money out using ACH/wire to ELIMINATE this problem in the future. ALWAYS check the address on file BEFORE you request a paper check. this way the only way to...

this is a great observation. the rule generally is when a stock stays flat/rises when the market is getting clocked that is a huge tell. there are worse trades out there then going long NG w/ a tight stop below yesterday's low. my own $0.02 USD is that someone is going to buy this out soon...

as soon as i got up this morning and went to my desk and saw GC was down like 80 points i thought my eyes hadn't adjusted to the light yet lol. i was THIS close to going long GC friday but am so glad i didn't. also thought about going long CL too. sometimes it's just better to stick to your...

you can go long above the recent swing high of 16.26 and/or the 20 DMA but use the 50 dma to be on the safe side. the creditors/bondholders will end up owning this company as they'll prob have to pledge most of their RE as collateral for a loan.

you can use flashblock to help w/ the flash issue and you can use another pdf program (i use sumatra) instead of adobe as the default pdf option). or you could use noscript and prevent all the slowness.

AFAIK it is not a recent rule. if you ever get traded through and you don't get filled IMMEDIATELY call you broker and tell them. this happened to me once and the broker said "you're out at x price - i'm telling you it's confirmed you received this price" even though it wasn't showing up on my...

i was NOT commenting on a company or technology. i agree i don't know anything about the company or the technology. i was just trying to help others traders realize that not everything drug will approval at each step and that they should hedge/position size accordingly. so unless you went...

just follow price. i was watching GC futures trade yesterday and when it was down to 1500 price looked like it was bottoming but then it kept going lower and closed down another 25 points. if you traded based on fundamentals or anything other than price you would've been carried out feet first...

i agree it does suck. that's why i'm glad i don't really have any new devices. while we're talking about xp, i strongly suggest NOT installing this latest update from windows b/c it completely changed my video card driver settings and made me waste an hour this morning fixing it.

i use firefox so don't know if it applies to chrome but AFAIK your bookmarks are NOT removed by running chrome. i use xmarks to back up bookmarks anyways. http://www.xmarks.com/ re saved username/password unless you use something like lastpass i believe they WILL be removed however i think...

+1.

i don't have a dog in this fight so i'll just leave it at this...it only needs to happen once to cause a big loss.