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What expiry did you choose @vanzandt?

I'm all for protein like OP. Western diets contain way too much carbs. The thing that concerns me about milk is how processed it's become lately. I mean, look at the bottle pictured. Fat-free, ultra-filtered, lactose-free. Imagine the heavy duty industrial processes required to achieve...

That's fine as long as you're not part of the 75% of the world's population that's lactose intolerant. :D

Wasn't any different in the California Gold Rush days. There were 2 kinds of people making fortunes then: Miners with bags of gold, and shovel salesmen charging $500/shovel.

Meanwhile, BTCUSD continues to hold onto support at $1000...

Still, did you put prints in contractDetails? Maybe you're getting all the results you asked for but contractDetailsEnd is having issues. In all honesty I only get the option when my application first starts and before I do anything else with the API. Maybe you have another thread interfering?

...and for my bearish butterfly positions. :D

I reliably use the C++ API to get the option chain all the time. (Under the hood it's the same messaging protocol.) How do you know you're not getting all the data? Did you put prints in the contractDetails and contractDetailsEnd callback functions?

LOL sounds almost like someone's testing out a Markov text generator.

These uncertainties are part of why I moved to index option spreads: cash settled, European style

I wonder how many fraud complaints have been filed by 26 year old Snapchat investors :D

IB is well known to be more risk-averse than most brokers. I didn't think that was to protect individuals from themselves but to prevent a liquidity disaster that could affect all account holders.

Apples and oranges. 1 BTC can be divided to as small as 10^-8 (1 Satoshi) so there's you're stick of gum. In situations where precious metals are used as currency silver is used as "change"

I always found it was harder going slower. Now I know it's also better! I've seen so many folks at the gym rushing through their reps. I guess they figure "a rep is a rep".

Bah. Mister Market will hurt OP's feelings worse than anyone here.

Hedging in FX accounts is a common pitfall you see all the time in the Forex message boards. Every noob with an MT4 demo account thinks he's genius coming up with the same ideas that thousands of others before him did e.g. hedging.

OP, you do realize that being both long and short the same contract is mathematically identical to being flat, right? If you must, you can achieve the same thing in a normal FIFO account by creating synthetic hedging in your trading software framework. Again, it's pointless since being...

I was being facetious. It's probably the hardest to trace. People are still being caught with large amounts of gold on planes though. Granny Smith can buy gold and carry it out but I doubt she'd know how to work Bitcoin. Here are my calculations from https://blockchain.info/stats: Fees for...

Yup, miners would set the fees but would compete with each other to solve blocks. Inevitably monopolies and cartels would form. I don't think Satoshi had in mind the formation of huge server farms mining Bitcoin. But new disruptive technologies come up often enough to fill the void.

You're confusing mining cost with the Bitcoin reward for solving blocks (as I explained earlier). When all the Bitcoin is mined, miners will be paid with fees.