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The cash SPX did not make that move down. Might have had something to do with EOM futures options or could have been a fat finger. Unless the perps confess it is difficult to know exactly what happened.:confused:

Electric rates in Pennsylvania keep dropping. "Reflecting lower natural gas prices, PPL’s quarterly rates for residential customers buying their power will drop from 7.769 cents per kilowatt hour to 6.935 cents per kilowatt hour starting March 1, bringing a savings of $8.34 for the typical...

"Some Nonresidents with U.S. Assets Must File Estate Tax Returns Deceased nonresidents who were not American citizens are subject to U.S. estate taxation with respect to their U.S.-situated assets. U.S.-situated assets include American real estate, tangible personal property, and...

Why are you looking at a 9 month old press release? I posted the most recent one specifying the decrease from $19.20 per million dollars to $18.00 per million dollars. Read it at: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-15.htm

If you are going to be pedantic on the start date you need to specify that the SEC fee reduction on options starts 2 days after stocks. The SEC itself says the actual start date depends on the SRO. "Consult with your compliance office or the SRO charging the fee We receive numerous...

Doesn't start until Tuesday. "Fee Rate Advisory #5 for Fiscal Year 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2012-15 Washington, D.C., January 20, 2012 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that on February 21, 2012 the fees rates applicable to most securities transactions will...

You don't have to track futures trades for tax purposes. Your 1099-B for futures trading will have a single net profit/loss line that you use for tax reporting.

"(CBS News) Just before Christmas, American workers got a rare gift from Washington politicians - the current payroll tax cut would be extended for two more months. At the time, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner lauded the move to avoid a tax increase for millions...

Have you actually read Schedule A and the instructions ? It is very difficult to miss line "5" "State and local" subline "a" "Income Taxes". You report what you actually paid to your state(s) during 2011. What have you done in past years ??? :confused:

You have just discovered what many techies already know - ISP email sucks. You are much better of with 3rd party email such as Gmail, hotmail or Yahoo mail. Verizon is my ISP and their email is rather unreliable. Back in 2005 they decided that every email sender in Europe was a spammer and...

You are confusing market efficiency and liquidity. The more efficient the market is the more difficult it is for a trader to make money. If the market was 100% efficient no trader could make any money and liquidity would be near zero.

So a special class of customer gets segregated fund insurance and the rest of us can just go drop dead. Clear cut discrimination. Hey CME, wake up. No half a** measures. Segregated fund insurance for all customers or no customers.

HFT has killed the market ??? How long have you been trading ? Market whipsaws and fakeouts have existed from the beginning of time. Anyone who has studied the markets knows that there have been some long periods of low volatility. Go look at a chart of the S&P 500 for 1994. The...

That notice just says that TD Ameritrade will act as the FCM. It does not say who is clearing the trades - Penson or some other clearing firm. As of 02/01/2012 TD Ameritrade is not on the list of CME clearing firms. http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/clearing-firms.html

"OTC pits open outcry" "temporary customer access to the floor" WTH are you talking about? There have never been "OTC pits".

stock777's hyperbole math works better than yours. In 2011 IB had $1.36 billion in revenue and Knight had $1.4 in revenue. That is just two out of many brokerage and market making firms. Who do you think paid all the tens of billions in 2011 to all the brokerage firms and market makers...

What is the performance of this 50/200 cross on the S&P 500 cash index since 1999? It only looks good if you like to sell bottoms and buy tops.

S&P 500 stock index futures started trading on April 21, 1982. The S&P 500 cash opened at 115.48 and the futures were trading at a discount so the first trade was probably around 115.10. Somebody here must have the first day's time and sales for the exact number. We are less than a month away...

If by "recently" you mean since 1999 then here is one site with the information: http://www.timingcube.com/weeklies/021811/

Just go to Google News and search on "thinkorswim options losses". It is the first story and free to read.