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IB margin for calendars is still pretty respectable though.

Cancellation fees would make all of this bullshit just go away. The trouble is the exchanges are all in on it. They'll make exemptions for "market makers" and regulatory isn't doinf squat either (I wonder why). The average investor, hell even the average trader, is not going to be significantly...

Once you sell to close then at that time your net position is flat and you have no obligation past that point. The various buyers and sellers you sell or buy from may even be closing their own positions at that point - it's not something you'll know. When an option holder exercises their option...

I totally agree that the TOS simulated fills are just bad and it's well known. But when it comes to non-paper I pretty much disagree that by using TDA the fills are any different. The fills are pretty much exactly the same as anywhere else once the limit order is placed. I use IB for 99% of my...

Well sure it's not an adequate sample size - but to imply that everyone arguing against it were the prime candidates for it to be used on was simply not the case at all. Surely you must recognize the the fact that you were on the benefitting side there. This is how we end up with crappy laws...

This isn't a fair statement. Off the top of my head I can think of 4 immediate people who expressed concerns (I'm sure I'm forgetting others): Myself, bone, JTrades, and Surf. I don't think of my posts as typically trolling or baiting for the most part so I don't think I'd be most likely to be...

I didn't force him to leave and the comment was hardly anything hugely negative or trolling. Secondly I was responding to someone else who pointed out similar concerns. In retrospect I probably could have been slightly less snarky about it. Thirdly, *you* liked the post! Sheesh. Yes, which is...

So would you rather be reading ZH or CNBC and Bloomberg? I'd rather filter down from an unrefined bunch of crap than have no choice in filtering pre-packaged misleading bullshit. I mean realistically, crap, noise, etc. aside does one really think they're getting more honesty from non-ZH like...

Great, but an unfortunate side-effect you're not envisioning is that the rest of us DO have to read them or atleast notice them when they come up. This is needless noise and drama that atleast if kept to a single thread I can learn to ignore the thread itself. For instance, "trouble with...

That's not fair. It's easy to ignore. You see it, read it, quickly categorize as "shit I agree with" or "shit I don't agree with" and respond or not respond accordingly - basically as everyone is required to do in daily life anyway. There's no need to defend yourself if you have nothing to worry...

I get the analogy but here's the problem: it's done silently on a forum. Nobody can see that someone else was silenced *unless* that is indicated in the thread (potentially as a meta post of some sort). I really think if we're gonna go down this road and have this kind of feature then we must...

You know: it's quite easy to just ignore a poster in a thread. Even if I don't agree with B1S2's posts I just ignore them when I see them. I don't outright ignore him as a person. Really, who cares if someone is saying something to me either in my thread or another thread - control yourself and...

I don't like this - it sets a bad precedence and is the exact opposite of ignore. If the thread starter can ignore people per thread then that's fine - but absolutely not cool if the thread starter can control how other people ignore a poster.

Fair enough and I could see how you might not have liked them. My only recommendation is that here on ET (and in general) you have to have a thick skin. Don't listen to people if you don't agree not because you don't want to hear it but because you believe in yourself. The converse is that if a...

To be fair, I don't think he got much aggressiveness from people here. It's not as if there was an actual reason to believe he was targeted by people for any reason.

Whereby "borrowed" actually means "stolen."

Same - worked my ass off and saved.

But wait a sec, what happened to that whole "the related factories and suppliers are all right next to each other - if we need to retool something we can do it much more quickly than if we build in the USA" story the tech companies love to parrot?

Pro tip: you can collect all the quotes/replies into a single post.

Hey Surf can you go all in on FXP so we can have a reason for more popcorn? :D