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In addition to what's already been mentioned - you can enter or get out of a position 'after hours' and trade overseas products. For the leverage reason though and the fact that futures are seductive, beginning traders (well, everyone) should treat them like a loaded weapon.

Correct, though reading the news every day, I am always tempted to flip that method upside down and sell high instead, scaling short into strength and then gradually buying into weakness. The advantage of that approach is that you are probably protected from bad news, black swan terrorist events...

I average down but only in small increments (therefore, ETF's), only with indexes and not individual stocks and only up to a conservative total amount. I also scale out into strength. I only use futures contracts on the long side after the heavier selling and hopefully, after the dust has...

I actually have read about QE3 and have more of a sense that it has a good chance to make some of this toxic mortgage stuff at the banks get cleaned up, with the backstop from the Fed. That in turn, can and will stimulate real lending from these robbers. Several perpetually bearish financial...

My understanding of that is that the money received after you sold shares in one of their commission-free ETF's could not be 'margined' until 30 days after settlement. Give them a call for clarification. I have an IRA with them which is not marginable so that restriction is not applicable to...

There isn't going to be a WWW 3 but there might not be an Iranian government, as we know it.

Answer already posted .... Consider never using market orders in thinly traded stocks or markets (that would be pre especially, thus, the rule.)

If it's that predictable, you should be making money by buying the dips, in smallish and conservative quantities, flipping those over on the rises.

Briefing.com Not 'real-time' but near and you get some beneficial built-in human filtering and verbiage. Earnings dates, economic and conference calenders, stock ideas. Most valuable part IMO, are the individual stock earnings reports and guidance's with differences between actual and...

Price not what you're looking for but when I factored in the reliability and excellence of their systems along with their support (you can actually get someone on the phone or have them respond to email right away) and company rep and considered that one of their systems will last me just fine...

Pardon my flip and somewhat irrelevant (but serious) answer: Outside of IB and in an FDIC insured account.

The same thing that keeps people trading the market as if the movement were simply based on the global perception of the apparent macro fundamentals (brought to you by the media, in over-simplistic, advertising centric color) and how that will play out in the crystal ball future.

Could be a witch hunt with IB but I've been concerned about them for awhile, mainly because I view their management as secretive, they have lots of international exposure, they have the most favorable margin rate in the industry (a downside for me) and I just can't get as much of a handle on...

I believe I'd go zero also. All of this info is now available, with a little experience and some work, for nothing.

You could be me thinking/saying exactly the same things. Even before this debacle, everyone should have been considering the advantages of restricting their active/swing trading to IRA's because of the tax and (lack of) accounting advantages (knock on wood). And were the government not so...

I usually just buy the dips in strong overall market up trends. But .... Shorting GOOG pros, 'fundamentals' - - the company seems unfocused on maximizing profits - they are too leveraged to advertising - they just give stuff away Shorting GOOG cons, 'fundies' - - they are very...

With a 90% stop loss, I'd go only index. QQQ

No idea about this plan but it does require local distribution infrastructure at the least. Buy local and all of that .... if it happened on a big scale with food, people might have more money available to buy other stuff, so it could be good for the economy.

Again, good luck. Were I you though, I'd take a quick perusal of what is out there in ETF land and just become familiar with that (and maybe the % allocation formulas that are typically used for the standard recommendations) so that you can at least double-check an adviser's stuff.

Not recommending anything to you, given my ignorance of your situation (and the fact that you don't know me :) but you can also come close to mimicing that type of bond performance via some of the bigger bond ETF's. Good luck ....