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    Question....I'd like to hear what people would think is the most contrarían view right now

    Just curious.. could be bitcoin, or something related to spx or even Amazon. Whatever....
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    Your right about fine print.. but in my experience IB is quick and other brokers give you a day
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    its alwasy good to ask questions , as most traders can tell you what not to do... that is where you will learn the most.. from other peoples blow ups.. at least i have and continue to.. IB is deep discount and has a ton of products to trade... you can't get that with alot of other brokers...
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    yes.... they aren't your typical broker.. A typical broker will call and email you and give you a day to fund your account to cover... which more then likely will give you time to add funds and as well for the market to calm enough for you to actually cover it... what i've told you is exactly...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    well... i guess you know me now... i am really pro free market :) I thought you might like the below Ludwig von Mises's 9 Best Tax Quotes 22 COMMENTS TAGS Taxes and SpendingAustrian Economics Overview 04/15/2016Tho Bishop In honor of tax day, a look at the best quotes from Ludwig von...
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    What they have done to many people... When the market goes against you and volatility goes up typically the bed in the ass spread goes pretty wide and makes it very hard on you.... If you have that all taking into account and then interactive brokers increases your margin by 50%above exchange...
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    i still hold a grudge yes! but i'm just giving fair warning,, if your strategy has draw downs and you are trading futures or options, you do not want to use a broker that will increase margins on you.... The have in house market making, what kind of jump of logic does it take to realize...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    sure stimulation doesn't always lead to inflation... but when has hyper inflation happen when government stimulation wasn't involved.. I think you are missing the point.. Government intervention nets out negative to the economy.. your just trying to work your way around it so you can come up...
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    any decent broker keeps the margin set at what the exchange mins are
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    How are maintenance margins applied?

    they will definitly move the margin requirements up and liquidate you... IB beware... Bucket shop
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    MGM

    lets advocate a free market guys.... and first just let some people morn.. this is terrible.... but trade what you see... providing liquidity to the market or taking it is what makes a market... if your selling, your faciliating liquidation of overpriced assets and helping the price to approach...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    its pretty easy to put everything into a catagorie of " bad for the masses" when it comes to inflationary monetary policy... inflation can happen in a free market , say in the discovery of a large amount of Gold etc.. but you know well what i'm talking about , i'm talking about government...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    "most people think". Most people don't read economics and just spout off whatever CNN or Fox is slanging
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    Inflation is a type is redistribution... The first receivers of the new money benefit at the expense of the last receivers. IE banks, Government contractors, at the expense of fixed income retirees, wage earners, or anyone else in the middle lower class. Asset holding classes are able to...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    It's rinse and repeat.. intervene in the market cause problems then intervene again to alleviate those problems .. ever causing more problems to cause a call for more intervention... All on the basis that inflation is good because we need to support the bad behavior of our debt creating...
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    Just for comic relief let's here what you speculate those political agendas to be....
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    IB (finally?) admits to matching orders internally

    They will raise margins when you are squeezed and liquidate you at the worst price.. they internally have the first option to take the opposite side of the trade so just go figure how that system of incentivizes is set up to screw ypu
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    IB (finally?) admits to matching orders internally

    They are a bucket shop... Auto liquidation theieves
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    The Taxation Flip Trick - Making Taxation More Efficient.

    Read some Thomas Sowell on the secondary effects of those Interventionist policies and you will see how truly detremental they are. If a government asks you to tell them what they can do to stimulate the economy you tell them NOTHING! or tell them to drop the Interventionist policies they...
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    The number of millionaires worldwide is at an all-time high

    It's called inflation
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