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LC, One day, maybe even the both levels in the same hour!!!!!

No biggie for B1S2.... He is disciplined..... His winners will more than make up for any losses.

US Federal Debt Bubble

If you get an execution, IB will give you a credit against order cancellation fees.

If you have a US green card, by law you need to pay US taxes.

Possibility that the MM got hit for some option. The market widens out on all the options so he has enough time to update his market. Then after he updates, the old narrow market is posted again.

You are halfway there!

The QQQQ single stock ETF futures on OneChicago should track the QQQQ 100% or near 100% because the single stock futures will call for actual QQQQ delivery. The single stock ETF futures will take into account market interest rates, short rebates, and any distributions in the QQQQ ETF...

Because politicians want to be reelected and will do what ever they can to accomplish this. Pave a few roads, help a few friends, etc. ....

Agreed. The Washington Powers do not want an auction to fail and hoping that time will solve FNM and FRE's problems.

IMB is a holding company. One of their subsidiaries was siezed by the Feds. The holding company still exisits even though it is essentially worthless. A good comparison in what happened with NetBank. Although the banking subsidiary was siezed by the Feds in 2007, the holding company...

Wow these guys are so sharp.

Shhhh. The US government does not want the world to know that they are doing this. That is one of the reasons why they stopped providing M3 data.

Why would the USA want to do this? If they issued bonds in foreign currency, the US Treasury cannot print their way out of America's troubles.

If you do not have the margin to carry the position, you may want to consider unwinding your 137/136 put spread now. When IB's margin program kicks in, there is nothing you can do.

If you do not have any income then you do not have a mortgage interest deduction. If your interest expense is LOWER than the standard deduction, then you do not have a mortgage interest deduction. You would need to get more information about the retirees before coming to your conclusion...

TLT, TBT, PST

He called up an investment bank (i.e., such as Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley) and did the trade with them. It was done OTC and is not cleared by the Options Clearing Corporation.

I cannot see SSFs (in individual names) settle in cash. Changing delivery will mess up all the people who are using using them as exchange for delivery vehicles (interest rate vehicles). Plus you are going to need a rule change. Unlikely.

$4.25 cash distribution. http://www.optionsclearing.com/market/infomemos/2008/apr/24330.pdf