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paysense, in case it's not yet clear: The January VIX options are based on the price of the January VIX futures, VXF0. The options are not based on the VIX index. The futures vaguely follow the VIX index, but can be higher or lower because they are contracts on what the VIX index will be on...

The US government is the biggest secret organization there is. Why worry over some silly college drinking club?

DeFazio states that "In addition, if someone trades overseas, the broker making the trade is still responsible for paying the tax." http://www.defazio.house.gov/images/zoom/MZCTYM/wall%20street%20-%20main%20street%20summary.doc

A similar tax was in effect until 1966. Was Wall Street devastated during that period?

If you're uncomfortable with your commission being within a (defined, known in advance) range, you can direct route your orders to get finer control.

If you're making trades of hundreds of thousands of dollars each, commission should be the least of your criteria. Look at the broker's customer service. If your order gets stuck, do you want to wait 30 minutes for a rep to pick up the phone?

Yes, it goes on-battery around once a year; it's plugged into a wall outlet that is fed by a building-wide UPS which fails once in awhile. I generally turn off my equipment when this happens - the computer isn't very useful when the building UPS is down, because there's no Internet - so the...

He has said in http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2670731#post2670731 that he's read the description and that he does not believe what they say. He maintains it is not a simulator but is real.

Think or Swim and E*Trade have iPhone applications. TD Ameritrade has worked with several third-party developers to offer iPhone applications.

This is not new. US citizens are already responsible for paying taxes no matter where they earn their money. See the recent suit and settlement with UBS over Swiss bank accounts.

Have you considered opening a paper trading account? That would let you trade using realtime prices. You'd need to have a minimally funded real account for this. They give you $100k of play money in a seperate account.

If not for this pesky recession, which is virtually over for large-cap companies, we would be at 1900 now (look at a 10-year chart). There is a whole lot of catching up to do. I suspect we'll see 1120 today and 1130 tomorrow, and 1250 sometime in January.

With your profits, maybe you can buy a copy of this: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Star%20Trek:%20The%20Next%20Generation%20--%20The%20Advanced%20Holodeck%20Tutorial%20Game%20Gear:1951001576

Which one are you?

Stock options are not marginable, so you can only buy $100k worth of them in a $100k account.

Unless the computer is physically tamperproof, you have no assurance your code can't be stolen. For example, it's easy to clone a disk drive by booting off a USB drive with suitable software - forensics people do this - and one can even plant software on the disk to monitor what the trading...

Instead of worrying about this, just check! TWS uses TCP port 4000. Set up a sniffer to look at the traffic and see whether it sends anything (aside from the market data requests) when you start to type in an order. Also, if you're using the trade simulator that's using "faux data", it's not...

If you filter out stocks that have negative or super-high PE's because of negative earnings in the recent past, what PE are we left with?

Very true, but remember the constituents in most of the country want a stock market and a housing market that go up faster than inflation, and a food and oil market that go up slower than inflation.

He has proposed multiple bills. The one targeting oil trading is described at http://www.defazio.house.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=490 . Here is a cringeworthy quote: