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Unless the 90 billion dollar position they are holding can't be unwound and explodes on them.

The barely contribute to the global economy anyways? So if they leave why such a big deal? The majority of the Greek economy is working for the government or tourism. If they default and go back to the Drachma it will help tourism since being in the euro makes it expensive for tourists...

IB is for active traders. Unless your an active trader and use Margin etc.. you really would get more bang for the buck with someone like TD or Scottrade.

So it could be 100 billion. Wow that would definitely be a problem. I bet they would get bailed out again though.

Anyone know what the total position exposure or did they liquidate the entire position and posted the 2 billion loss?

Thank you JPM. Sold SPY puts in the morning. was the ask side for a bit got filled and now a nice little rally today it seems :D

I suspect you would see something more in the lines of communism.

Last time we had big economic problems we had Hitler and WW II I guess its like the Brushfire, every so often we need one to cleanse out the forests for new growth.

Wow big demand. looking at the full order book Looking at selling puts this week on SPY. much more buyer demand than sellers.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/crisis-threatens-europes-life-16304115#.T6pm7-1T38t Elections in France and Greece reflect the anger and disillusionment coming to the surface across Europe as an entire way of life is challenged. The European landscape is undergoing profound change...

It was not a secret. Why hire him in the first place? http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/opinion/frum-romney-errors/index.html

Things were better back in the days. before this fancy computer stuff. Back then you made your trade, the kid would pick up the physical certificates and deliver them to the cage, sign and endorse. Back in the days we traded real physical paper. You trade 100 shares of GE, those shares move...

Seriously, it seems expensive to blow up camels and old toyota technicals? We have plenty and then some to take on any enemy. Why such a fancy expensive F-22? To combat some Alien invasion that we have not been told about?

He got us into the Vietnam Quagmire which caused us to go deep in debt, triggering Balance of payment issues. Then Nixon came and and helped push the ball rolling.

Netflix has it I just saw it. You have to do a search.

Why do you need 10:1 leverage?

Wow none of the experts here can answer this. I though this was elite trader.

How is this possible. Analyst says Q3 EPS will be 48 cents. Company reports 49 cents. How can these analysts be so accurate? That would be like playing roulette and always getting the number or one off every time. Statistically something seems odd.

Forex, 50:1 Go big or Go home.

Looking over historical documents I have noticed the following. #1 Buybacks seem to occur when stock is priced high. #2 Buybacks primarily just seem to offset the extensive dilution due to executive stock options. So to counteract EPS from dropping due to excessive backdoor compensation...