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I tried to short RIMM yesterday, but IB wouldn't let me. I got some cryptic message saying that this share couldn't be shorted. Is this because the share was falling so rapidly that there were no shares to lend me, or are some stocks unshortable?

I believe that IB trades on its own a/c and this is one of their main sources of income :confused: Now, one thing I have learned about trading is that its possible to lose a hell of a lot of money doing it, and if its the case that 'SIPC is kind of a joke' that seems quite worrying :eek:

I have an a/c with IB and also Firstrade. How safe are these accounts? What would happen is the firms went bust? :eek: What about fraud? :mad: What protection do investors have? :confused:

95% is considered statistically significant so 20 trades should be enough. If some situations (testing a nuclear power plant for instance) a higher confidence level would be required, probably 99% Testing a trading system, where all you've got to lose is something trivial like money, you...

I'm not sure that's true. We actually have a very detailed record of the temperatures and atmospheric composition over the last 1000 years from dendrochronology and ice core samples and a reasonable amount of data for up to 10000 years. The last 30 years have shown the biggest rise in...

Buy as much gold as you can lay your hands on

The same could be said of other insider dealers such as Milken...but it didn't stop them doing it. Its pretty clear to any one who trades that there's a lot of insider activity going on and it would be naive to assume that the top pols and business leaders aren't in on it.

He could still be trading using an anonymous Cayman Island/Bahamas a/c.

What is the earliest time in the day I can start trading? It seems that some stocks are trading well before the bell.

You can see the entire video of Donald & chum here

If you take all the US taxes - local, state & federal - I can't see that there is that much difference between the US & Europe...some European countries (Switzerland for instance) have much lower taxes than the US and some (Sweden) higher.

The EU accounts for about 31 percent of world output and 20 percent of world trade (excluding intra-EU transactions). The United States provides about 27 percent of global production and 18 percent of world trade. The dollar's share of world finance far exceeds the economic weight of the United...

:p Everyone outside the US calls soccer football... the point I was trying to make is that culturally and technologically the world follows the European rather than the US standard...doesn't this imply that the European currency will sooner or later become the reserve currency of the world?

The sport of Europe is football The sport of the world is football The US has its own special version The measurement system of Europe is metric The measurement system of the world is metric The US uses imperial measurements The mobile phone system of Europe is GSM The mobile phone...

Its probably just luck, but in the 12 hours since my post about L-3 its gone up by 6.55% :)

On this theme, one company that might be interesting is L-3 Communications. Jay Garner, the new governor of Iraq, was an executive and probably stills owns shares or options. It is "a merchant supplier of secure communications and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)...

Water privatization is incredibly profitable. In 1990 I bought shares in Thames Water which was created by Maggie Thatcher as part of the privatization of UK water. Its one of the best investments I've ever made.

"FDR are familiar initials in US politics. They used to describe an often-re-elected president (Roosevelt) who occasionally showed some concern for the poor and unemployed in his country. Now the initials stand for the Friends of Donald Rumsfeld, something very different. If you are an FDR today...

There are some more pictures here The shots are from Reuters. "If there is one thing this war has taught us all, it's that we can't believe what we're told. For Donald Rumsfeld these were "breathtaking". For the British Army they were "historic". For BBC Radio they were "amazing"...