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you mean, "longs look out" :D :D :D

ge is getting hammered after-hours. es dropped 13 pts within 30 minutes of the earnings release. those of you who went to bed when futures were green will have a nice surprise at dawn.

my crystal ball shows the following.......... op will get lucky a few months and think he's a pro. op then borrows from his credit card and family. op will leverage more and more. op blows up.

i seriously doubt you can scale to anywhere near $500m with qqqq & ndx options. with the leverage you'll get from pm or haircut, $500m aum would let you hold positions of many billions of dollars. the daily dollar volume of all qqqq options is only $5-8m. you'd be quadrupling that with your...

yeah i also got tired of how ib kept raising margin requirements with little or no notice. i lost faith in them and switched to tos. if you have a large enough account, tos is better than ib. you can negotiate a competitive credit interest rate, and if you have portfolio margin you can park...

seriously, you don't understand why high-risk deadbeats pay more in interest? well let me give you a real life example. i'll send you my bank info, you wire me a $100,000 loan at 10%. i'll pay you $500 per month, and after 3 months i'll start being delinquent. at that point, you can lower...

this is a very bad idea. if the borrower is in poor financial health and has shown repeatedly they aren't worthy of credit, why continue to grant them credit and give them low interest rates and i/o-only payments? that's something you only give to the best, low-risk borrowers, not the worst...

another thing is, trading provides very flexible hours and makes it easier to have dessert while the main course is out doing her nails or working.

do people here really think 100-200k is a lot of money especially for people who are 40-50 years old? google alone probably has a few thousand employees who make 6-figure compensation and many of them are in their 20s and early 30s.

oh, another dumb story from the popular press written by a clueless journalist. ellison didn't get a tax break, he got a tax refund because he had been overpaying property taxes for years because of an unreasonable appraisal on his property. the county agreed and is paying him back. the...

these virgin posters who come to the defense of a company makes it look way suspicious, especially when both of them post within 10 min of each other.

stop making up shit. those investments were long-term bonds that now have little liquidity so the greedy investors are losing money. they're not anything like a money market fund

you didn't learn your lesson the first time huh?

actually i don't have many complaints about tos, but the one big complaint i have is that it's cumbersome to place many orders on different option series and then locate particular orders if you wanna change them.

so by your logic, i should post a thread titled "what car or sofa should i get?" in the trading forum, because some of us make enough money in trading to buy a car or sofa. dumb logic.

i submit that you dont even understand 6th grade math. 2000 to 25000 is a 1150% increase. it's incredible that someone posting on a trading site doesn't even know what a percent is. jesus f'king christ

very wrong. every boom and bust is caused by different factors. the last boom in los angeles was caused by a strong economy (aerospace and defense), and the bust was caused by reduced government spending in those areas. they said the housing market wouldn't recover until those industries...

no, the more you make the more you wanna work, because of the opportunity cost of not working.

this is like those surveys that ask people whether they think they're good drivers and how they rank other drivers. 80% of these surveys are useless.

anunakki, your brother is a loser if he's been working for 9 yrs as an exec of a large corp and only has $50k savings. you just provided a great example of someone who lives on the edge and was one job-loss away from disaster. as for income taxes, wealthy people subsidize low-income people...