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"They" will print the money and bail them out!

Pension could be next. I think there is a good chance Pension is likely to be holding some of that high yield European debt. A broker that will bet the farm on a race track investment is likely to have done other high risk activities.

The collapse of MF Global is only the tip of the iceberg. With the extended period of near 0% short term interest rates of return in the USA, USA investors (individuals, banks, Wall Street investment banks, clearing firms, and etc) have been seeking higher rates of interest returns in western...

Barata, My trays are probably like the ones you had. They use the vending machine type tamper-proof cylinder locks that you remove the keys from the locks. The racks and trays are plastic (some trays have metal covers). Computergate.com has trays for my racks for $5.49 each. I did not see a...

Barata, Are you using IDE ATA hard drives or SATA hard drives (must buy racks and trays to match type of drives used)? I bought my racks and removable trays from Computergate.com several tears ago. I have 8 racks (2 per PC) and about 16 removable trays. Each rack comes with one removable tray...

My guess is Mark killed himself because he figured he was going to be left penniless and perhaps in jail.

There must have been a problem with 919. I think I will do my standard procedure of waiting a few days before doing an update to 920.

Barata, Generally it seems that if they support Win XP, it will run in Win 2000 SP4 with all updates. Some need .Net installed. I use IB data, MBTrading data, and TDAT data in QuoteTracker under Win 2000. Each of my PC's have removable hard drive bays. The master is in one bay and the...

I have been with IB 11 years and have always had great IB customer service/support and the best technical/software support I have had from any broker. Over the years when I have reported a significant bug in the software, the head of the software group has put the required people on the problem...

I agree with you. IB is about the only broker I use where I will consider exceeding SIPC limits.

listedguru: The SIPC insurance cover up to the limits of $250K in cash and $500K of cash plus securities. Penson carries an additional $150M insurance of which $2.15M can be cash per customer with an aggregate of $600M of securities plus cash of all customers combined. If Penson goes...

Pension (PNSN) share price looks like it is headed for zero (low of 1.15 and close of 1.42 on 10-03-11).

I think TDAT wanted the 250,000 TOS accounts, cash revenue stream, employees, software, and the ongoing business. In my opinion the value of the software was only a small part of the $750,000,000 purchase price paid ($3,000 per account). I think TDAT underestimated what is required to merge TOS...

It should work if you apply "the patch" and you also have a data source that does not make changes that prevent QuoteTracker from connecting and retrieving data.

A few months back I was planning to open an account with Lightspeed. After reading all of the Lightspeed related post and ratings here on ET, I decided my life would be better without dealing with Lightspeed.

My guess is TDAT will igive up on the TOS platform as they have on the QuoteTracker platform. TDAT has too many layers of management to be anything but a long term investor's broker.

Jerry, If the free brokerage data sources at some point become unusable, is it likely the paid sources like IQ feed or E-Trade feed could be used?

I think being able to use QT for an unknown length of time beyond 2011 may be a better description at this point in time.

You can go to IB's home page > Trading > Short Sales > paragraphs 4 & 5 to find the following information: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Cash from the short sale is used as collateral on borrowed shares. When...

If you are looking for a broker to short stocks through, MBTrading clears through Penson and I do not think I have experienced any unusual problems with shorts on stocks filled through MBTrading. I like Interactive Brokers (IB) but I no longer short stocks through IB due to short interest fees...