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Can you point to the specific section of the bill that allows this?

I know it's an old quote but interesting nonetheless. Not asking you to spill the beans, but are you talking high frequency or low, i.e. a transform of the past few minutes or the past few weeks? Also curious if your experience has continued to support that statement now six years on? Thanks.

Islamic banking isn't lending money for free because you have lots of oil money. It's essentially charging fees that are the same as interest would be, or paying more for something than you otherwise would, or any of a number of other tricks used to have the same monetary effect as interest...

First of all, large transformers are not all manufactured "overseas" (http://www.spxtransformersolutions.com/transformers_home.html) Even if they were, "overseas" is someplace like Germany and it may be faster to get a transformer from there to NY then from WA to NY, for example, so the fact its...

If you're a U.S. citizen then pretty much none of the very good advice from this thread applies to you. Ditto if you're moving your money offshore due to some collapse of the US govt investment thesis.

Except cash settled options, where no assets are delivered. The are forex cash settled options that trade on the ISE and PHLX, for example.

I know a whole bunch of quants who are among the smartest people in the world, as well as the most profitable traders, who not only don't trade with charts but who would laugh you out of the room for even advocating it. I'm not opening the argument that you deserve to be laughed out of the room...

OK, let's get real here. Some professionals may or may not use charting. That's a long way from a completely unsubstantiated assertion that you can only turn a profit by charting or some advanced techniques that have their basis in charting or that you learned while charting. There may or may...

Or better yet read the article the OP posted, which is about natural hedgers not a trading strategy!

I had a friend ;) get burned by something similar before, thanks for the reminder!

I do not think the word hedging means what you think it means. And happy to hear you iterate exactly what loopholes in Dodd Frank would have someone using TA or any other trading system for to profit from the trading aspect of what they're doing? Not to mention the question of why trader's would...

OK, so they were using TA for hedging, which is essentially the only kind of trading they're still allowed to do? Seriously?

Yeah, you're going to have to provide more details on this Buy1Sell2 because at this point you've either uncovered a bank doing something illegal (prop trading banned by Dodd-Frank) or you may be mistaken about what you were seeing or where you where?

Would be interested to hear more details on where you read that, I'd like to read it myself to see the details on where that number came from. At this point the thread has a lot of "heard it from a hedge fund buddy" and "read somewhere" data, would like to take it to something more verifiable.

This has all the seduction of a perpetual motion machine and is just as unachievable. The question you really need to ask is if there is an entity out there that will perpetually buy options at a loss or the hedge at a loss so that the person with this system can lock in risk free profits. And a...

Thanks!

That could very well be, but I couldn't find where it says that. Maybe there's a subclause somewhere that says the income has to be proportionally deducted/estimated? Anyone know where that verbiage is? To be honest I've evenly spread it out and never gotten the penalty but never tried to do it...

Keep in mind that as long as you pay more in estimated taxes + withholdings this year than you did last year you won't be penalized regardless of the total amount of your underpayment. From the IRS publication " Generally, most taxpayers will avoid this penalty if they either owe less than...

My favorite example of this, the average temperature on the moon is a relatively balmy 10 degrees F. Not much worse than Denmark in the winter, right? Of course the temperature on the dark side of the moon is -243 F and on the bright side it's +253 F and in no place except perhaps a narrow band...

Power is its own very complicated animal with huge collateral requirements that make it a nonstarter for someone with less than $1M to trade. Even if you have the money learning what you're doing is nontrivial. Brokering is less pitching and more knowing your market and all the players...