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I disagree.

Is that really true? https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data

Yes, that is entirely bonds maturing according to Financial Times.

As far as I know the Fed has not announced any direct selling, so it will take many years for the balance sheet to shrink waiting for the bonds to mauture. But of course they could potentially make the decision to start selling.

SPY lost 56% during the financial crisis not including dividends. Quite cruel. However, two months later the loss had shrunk to -41%. The financial crisis has been described as a 1 in 100 year event. Maybe we should consider buying this market when it crosses -30%?

Schwab also accepts clients residing in Spain. Both IB and Schwab accepts clients residing in UAE, so they can't have problems with UAE in general.

"Securities for this order were not immediately available for short sale. The order will be held while we attempt to locate the securities." This is the message you receive on IB when IB cannot locate shares to borrow. Do you agree that on IB there is nothing more to do in this situation to...

Thank you. So the cut off to determine whether you hold a position overnight is not at the end of regular trading hours when the regular market closes, but at the end of after-hours trading at 8 pm eastern time?

You do not pay short borrow fee on a short stock position opened and closed intraday. If you have a short position in a stock at market close, you will pay the borrow fee for the next day. If you do not have a short position in a stock at market close, but take a short position during...

"The big reason equities worked as an inflation hedge in the 1970s was because the Fed allowed it to. If the Arthur Burns-led Fed had jacked up rates as much as Paul Volcker eventually did, equities would have suffered -- just as they did under Volcker’s onslaught. If you buy into the market...

That could be true even if Bitcoin had only taken a 10% hit. I am not talking about correlation. I am talking about thin air still having a huge market value even at this point of the stock market meltdown.

In the case of Bitcoin I do.

I must admit in this bear market what has surprised me the most is how resilient Bitcoin has been. I do expect it to falter during the fall though.

That goes for Sweden for sure. 30% capital gains tax irrespective of volume of trading or how long you hold the assets. Sweden also have something called "investment saving account" with much lower taxation, but only for long trading and only with local brokers. Are you sure that you are not...

Why have you chosen TradeZero over IB?

You have USD 1.000.000. You short sell stocks for USD 1.000.000. You buy other stocks for USD 2.000.000. Do you need to borrow USD 1.000.000 and pay interest or can you use the USD 1.000.000 proceeds from the stocks sold short? For instance at IB.

Ok, for stocks as I remember it only moves up and down with the market when the order is directed at Island. But for options I take your word that it moves with the market.

Does the REL order type move up or down or does it only become more agressive until it fills?

This order type? https://ibkr.info/article/2844 Where do you usually set your limit price when you enter this order type if you just want to get in or out with the least amount of friction?

Here is the management team of what has become one of the largest tech companies in the world over the last couple of weeks: https://www.amtdigital.net/management-team/?fbclid=IwAR27X2O8DQdzMjFl80Eu0XNJ8ta5m5zYKAgLjs8CVYA6DkXG9E6YnHdVh3U