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I'm running the release preview edition on VirtualBox with no problems. It spent almost 20 minutes in setup, with no indication that it was making any progress (but I could see the virtual disk growing in size).

Yes. 90-day evaluation period. Do a web search for "windows 8 evaluation" and look at the link for msdn.microsoft.com.

TDAmeritrade's Streamer and Command Center will show after hours charts. The iPhone app will, too, but only through 6:30pm.

Thanks for the heads up! Could you also tell us who'll win the World Series and Survivor? Tia.

It doesn't affect the average person negatively. The average person has group or individual health insurance. The average person makes less than 200k and is not the owner of a business with more than 50 employees. This will negatively affect those who do not have insurance and are too rich...

The angus burger is pretty good and not overly salty like the regular burger. The cheese tastes like it's oil-based; I don't order it. Whatever sugar is in the fruit smoothie somehow doesn't get my blood glucose up (I'm diabetic), which is great. Burger King always caused indigestion...

If your income is large enough to trigger the tax penalty for not buying the minimum insurance, then if you don't pay it is likely that the tax will be taken by wage or asset garnishment. You'd have to do something fairly arcane, e.g. actively hide virtually all your assets, to wind up in prison...

You guess wrong. He was awarded the prize for his efforts in international relations, specifically for nuclear disarmament.

Interesting. I thought the point was that IB started this thread by asking for suggestions to improve their charting, and I (and others) listed some. Maybe I misunderstood and none of us should have posted any suggestions. Thanks for the clarification.

First, a note of appreciation for your charts. Few other brokers offer free charts with the ability to specify bar intervals narrower than 1 minute, to manually correct bar data, and to display my trades on the charts. I'd second the suggestion for multiple ignored daily time intervals. I...

The US equity and option datafeed is free if you do $30/month in commissions, and (last time I checked) it was possible to trade without subscribing to a data feed. What feeds do you find expensive and what do you think your amount of commissions per month will be?

They didn't do anything to address the insurer reimbursement drops nor the government investigation of their marketing methods. Maybe they have nothing new to add at this time. But a (potentially one-time) dividend of 20 cents and a share buyback isn't going to counteract the feeling that...

I noticed the TOS desktop platform was 4 seconds slow. Then I noticed it was connected to thinkorswim.com.sg, i.e. Singapore, and I'm in the eastern US. This might be because I use Google's public DNS server (8.8.4.4) rather than my ISP's and it's returning a thinkorswim.com server that's close...

From Letterman last night: Top Ten Signs You're A Bad Referee - Every call you make begins with "Uhhh...." - Won't throw flag on field because you'd just have to pick it up - Can't believe how many players' autographs you're getting - Never sure how many balls should be in play...

How about UVXY?

Anyone know more details about this? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578011112447236182.html

What's the basis for this claim? If the tax causes volume to drop back to where it was in the 1980's, were there really that many fewer people in the industry back then? If people have to pay 1/4% for each trade - if you look back before decimalization people buying at the ask were paying a half...

The state can tax the sale of a product even when no profit is being made on it. The state can tax transfers of property when no money is being given in exchange.

In practice, this just means that kids will buy 2 12-ounce cans instead of a 20-ounce bottle. So it'll cost them more money and they'll consume more sugar than they did before the law. Fruit juice and smoothies are bad, too, but I guess they had better lobbyists. The fruit sugar is...

You can't use those ETFs as collateral for margin borrowing until you've held them for 30 days.