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"As of June 18, 2015, CBOE and CFE will not be adding any new VXST futures and options, but may do so at a later date." -- http://www.cboe.com/micro/vxst/ (as I viewed it on June 22, 2015) This may be part of a purge of several volatility futures and options products over the past couple of...

Thanks, everyone, for your thoughtful replies. I confirm that TD Ameritrade's 401k plan was from Ascensus when I used it, and it had just about every feature I could think of. I also confirm complications with doing ACAT transfers between my TD Ameritrade and Interactive Brokers accounts...

Compared to a 28" 4k that I have access to at work (LG, I think), I find I can comfortably use a lot more text on a 39" 30Hz 4k ~$350 Seiki (discussed at http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/4k-ultra-hd-trading.279744/ ) that is my main monitor, even with its blue-green-red subpixel...

I don't know quite what to make of the following quotation, but I think this excerpt from from Internal Revenue Service publication 598 ("Unrelated Business Taxable Income") at http://www.irs.gov/publications/p598/ch04.html might be relevant to the discussion about UDFI/UBTI tax for trading...

Just to provide an update for anyone else who finds this post in the course of searching the web for a related question, I went with Ubiquity (formerly, The Online 401k), and my 401k trust now has accounts at both Interactive Brokers and TD Ameritrade. Other companies that I believe provide...

I am not a laywer, so please do not rely on this as legal advice. Regarding the slightly off-topic question of shorting stock in a trust account, I would like to point out IRS private letter ruling 201434024 of August 22, 2014, pages 5-6 ( http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/201434024.pdf ), which...

I am not a lawyer. Do not rely on this as legal advice. I am just sharing my possibly incorrect layman's understanding in the hopes that this will help you find the answer from a more authoritative source. Regarding only the question of a trust shorting equities, it looks to me like the IRS...

Sharebuilder and loyal3 allow customers to own fractional shares of stock, which I imagine are legally implemented as forward contracts, which I further imagine are approximately hedged in aggregate by these sites. I am wondering if anyone does the same thing with futures or futures options...

I'd be interested in recent experiences from anyone with an individual 401k account at Interactive Brokers, especially regarding the legal document provider or any other service used to maintain the 401k (for example, a record keeping service if you don't do it yourself), such as a provider...

Update for certain Linux users: Linux 3.14-rc6, released a few hours ago, apparently fixes a bug that prevented operation of HDMI 3840x2160 @ 30Hz using the open source ATI/AMD Radeon drivers in X windows with Radeon hardware that supported it, such as the r7 cards I mentioned in my previous...

In the hopes of helping anyone similarly situated save time by staying close to a known good configuration, I am going to describe my present system configuration and also try to list what did not work. Monitors: Seiki se39uy04 3840x2160 @ 30Hz HDMI Hewlett-Packard HP LP3065 2560x1600 @...

Amazon cut their price of new Seiki 39" se39uy04 4k TV's to $400. It was $500 on Friday, when I ordered a used one for ~$404. My used Seiki arrived today, but I have only been able to get a 15Hz refresh rate from my fanless Asus Radeon hd6450 video card when I drive the monitor at 3840x2160...

In case anyone is unaware of this, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas starts Tuesday. There will probably be announcements relevant to those of us who like lots of pixels. Also, Amazon, Tiger Direct and Sears are now selling the 39" Seiki 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz display for ~$500, with...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort indicate 3840 x 2160 ("4K") at 60 frames per second is supported both by DisplayPort 1.2 (released 2009-12-22) and HDMI 2.0 (released 2013-09-04). Many 4K televisions only support 4K @ 30Hz because their HDMI is...

I have a few updates to my post about 3840x2160 @ 30Hz displays. 1. Tcl le50uhde5691 (50") is now being sold for ~$910 at Amazon. 2. I'm not completely clear on this, but I get the impression that firmware updates for the Seiki displays available at...

I'm aware that the original poster already has his hardware, but, for anyone else who thinks they'd benefit from that many pixels, you might want to consider the cheap 3840x2160 @ 30Hz televisions. Each of these displays has four times as many pixels as a 1920x1080 display. I made a more...

Correcting myself, the press release I mentioned above is for a study about "the first half of 2008."

If I read correctly, the following Interactive Brokers press release about a 2010 study by "Transaction Auditing Group" seems to claim that IB smart routing saves an average of $.0047/share of stock, and $1.19/option contract, which, I infer, would make SmartRouting almost free for stocks and...

I am interested in reports of experiences with or recommendations of brokerages that can quickly execute and clearly document gifts of highly appreciated long options positions to trust accounts, such as a child's account (UTMA or UGMA) or a pass through foundation to make charitable donations...

historicaloptionoptiondata.com (deltaneutral.com) eoddata.com These two paid services offer it. I have subscribed to them both, but haven't looked into the accuracy of their open interest numbers other than a quick look at one stock just now to see that the results seemed plausible (that...