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I agree about the saving. The American consumer sees that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, the "rich fat cats" are the only ones being lavished with bailouts, bonuses, and jobs while everyone else is left to fend for themselves. So they save, which slows economic growth since we are still a...

When you say you can't use margin in a self directed IRA futures account, does this mean you must have ~ $50 * 1100 or $55000 to trade one contract, or does the performance bond rule, ~$2k per contract, still apply?

Avatar was very good. The story was a little predictable, but the rest of the movie made up for that.

Ok. I'll see how well TS works. If the fills aren't good, there are always other brokers.

What is anyone's experience trading index futures with tradestation? Are the slippages and spreads reasonable?

Japanese are definitely healthier, but have you checked their economic ills lately? America is a single country, not an empire like Rome or Britain were. There is no periphery of countries 1000's of miles away to slowly slip away while the capital territory is somewhat isolated. Look at how...

Keep in mind we can't even pay interest on the debt without raising the debt ceiling. The repubs are fighting the ceiling being raised now, but as soon as the next repub president is elected, they will call for cutting taxes and raising spending to their donors' interests. The dems, as always...

The time to buy is when you see "cash for gold" ads. The time to sell is when "gold for cash ads" show up.

ASusilovic - thanks for the reply. I'm asking about index futures.

The fact the the 290B increase in the federal credit card balance limit only passed the house by 2 votes shows that federal budget gridlock is pretty close. The republicans only need a few more votes to force a serious discussion on the budget. It amazes me how when there is a repub president...

What about the unemployment rates?

Martin - I think the question is not whether the gov't can fund itself, but how. There are three ways for gov't to fund itself at the current spending levels: 1) Raise taxes by ~2T to cover the deficit. 2) Borrow from China. and/or 3) Have the Fed print dollars. Which of these is a...

The gov't is running a huge deficit which means that it is taking in less than the investment it has put out. See the percentage of bailout money that has been loaned back out by the banks for an example.

There is close to a 0% chance our federal government will pay off the exploding debt without the 14 letter "h" word. And the only way that will work is if the other counties don't catch on and allow us to keep our debts to them in FRNs.

All good arguments in this post. But nobody has made the gov't efficiency argument yet. For example, around 70% of gov't defense contracts are over budget and behind schedule. So extra spending on those projects is not resulting in extra efficiency. I'm sure that many NASA and other gov't...

HEh. People are starting to realize that the only thing politicians care about is winning re-election. And next year is an election year. So guess what? It's time to buy votes. Spend, Spend, Spend!!!

GWB - I don't know of any company that likes to see it's best employees leave. In fact, companies do everything they can to keep their top people happy, to an extent. In the private world, if you don't have top-notch employess that can deliver, your product won't make it to market in time to...

I hope people realize that almost half of the engineers and scientists in Silicon Valley are foreign born. And this doesn't include the engineers whose parents or grandparents were foreign born. So, just because something was "designed" or 'thought of" in America, doesn't mean an American did...

Hopefully this is the right forum. I have a stock trading strategy I'm looking to apply to futures. Looking at the market depth window, there is a spread that can vary from 1 to 3 times the minimum multiple ( from 0.25 to 0.75 for a minimum multiple of 0.25). Looking at tick data, there are...

This is an admission that the TARP spent to date failed. TARP was supposed to "make credit markets operate normally". It is clear that the banks refuse to lend, perhaps in anticipation of more "trickle down" stimulus and TARP programs. Now, the government is finally doing what I've felt they...