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With a reserve of slightly more than $1 billion, SIPC could not keep its doors open for long if its purpose was to compensate all victims in the event of loss due to investment fraud. http://www.sipc.org/who/notfdic.cfm

IB's SIPC page says $500k per customer not per account. Guess we will have to see what def says. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/accountProtection.php?ib_entity=llc

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_en_mu/music_secret_treasure_donated Secret Trove of Music Donated to Juilliard By MARTIN STEINBERG, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 36 minutes ago One of the most famous phantoms of the auction circuit — the anonymous buyer — has unmasked...

It wasn't unscheduled, it was at a Merrill Lynch conference.

Nice little wardrobe malfunction at Sundays race. Look close...

I previously worked for a clearing firm for the CME & CBOT. If you know who to deal with the pits are not near as bad as your general comments.

Everything looks good except floor based CME Ags at $12 rt. Kinda high, already getting $10 rt all in now and have personel phone support within 2-3 rings if needed. Also kinda hesitant to try IB for pit with some of def's comments.

Supreme Court Allows Church's Hallucinogenic Tea http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_RELIGIOUS_TEA?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-21-10-12-42

Just released from Drudge: Bush called the pool back at about 2.30 to issue a very strong defense of port deal... MORE... On port deal he said he would veto any legislation to hold up deal and warned the united states was sending "mixed signals" by going after a company from the middle east...

I bought my wife one of the new 17" Dell laptops with the ultrasharp display. Its pretty sweet, I upgraded almost everything and it came to aound $2,400 but once I stacked coupons and discounts we go it for just over $1,400. We've had it since Dec and so far are very happy with it.

Futures are mark-to-market. Just need beginning and ending numbers of the year (with deposits/withdrawls taken into account). http://www.traderstatus.com/futures.htm

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185221,00.html Dvorak: Will Apple Adopt Windows? Monday, February 20, 2006 By John C. Dvorak This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing. There's just one fly in the ointment. The idea that Apple would...

Just remember tomorrow is a holiday. Also you won't get real-time anywhere unless you pay for it (below is 30m delayed). http://www.futuresource.com/quotes/quotes.jsp?s=CL

Man Shot In Accident After Laughing At Cheney (AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. Hours after laughing about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting mishap, Josh Kayser was himself shot by a friend during a hunting expedition. The 21-year-old Lafayette man was taken to the hospital Monday night after his...

If this has happened twice its time to find a new broker. He should be going over all of his tickets at the end of day no matter how late he has to stay. He has an error account for this very reason, no matter if the position goes against him or for him you should get your closing price (not...

A priest and a rabbi are seated together on a plane. After a while, the priest turns to the rabbi and asks, "Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?" The rabbi responds, "Yes, that is still one of our beliefs." The priest then asks, "Have you ever eaten pork?" To which the...

I'll let someone else explain, I was never good at teaching especially when its not face to face.

What you enter is dollars, say $500,000 at 117.75 that equals 58,875,000 YEN. The margin will be 2% of $500,000 or $10,000, make sense?

They moved it down to 2% today I think, so $471,000 * .02 = $9,420 (if 30:1 then .0333 * 471,000 = $15,699)

Actually 4000 = $4000 or 471,000 YEN