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Sorry to zero in on a tiny part of your question, but the one piece of advice I have for you is regarding an MBA. For someone in your specific situation, an MBA from one of the top 7 or 8 schools is a great way to almost ensure you can move into distressed debt or restructuring, regardless of...

Well I can tell you that I inadvertently moved the entire contents of my account out of my IB account and into another brokerage account within 2 days of ACHing the money in trading two closely related pairs. None of your "framework of controls" did anything about that, and I was able to wire...

I'll spell this out for you, it's worthless in it's stated goal of preventing exposure to fraud because it can be easily circumvented by anyone with half a brain and criminal intent. Again, thank you for demonstrating the typical IB representative attitude of willfully "misunderstanding" a point...

If you're trying to find "negative" donations then yes, you're probably out of luck. I was thinking more of something like the environmental sphere where a company would want to showcase who and how much they'd donated to. Sorry I don't live in a world where it's considered bad to give to a...

Sorry, could have sworn my funds were locked both ways when I was a customer 2 years ago. Of course as I described, your "prudent restriction" is absolutely worthless in practice, isn't it?

I'm not surprised to hear that, it lines up with my expectation. Have you tried contacting the company division that handles donations, explaining what you're doing, and asking them if they have a system in place to help you? I'm guessing the bigger companies may already have a letter from their...

Also keep in mind that IB doesn't allow you to withdraw the money you ACH in for 40 days, regardless of if they initiate the ACH or your bank does. You can't even move it from one of your IB accounts to another in that 40 day period. You can make equal and opposite transactions in something like...

Are you "some"? If not I'd like to see one of these predictions, and not the stopped clock right twice a day kind that have identified 25 of the last 2 bear markets.

Predicting there will be a pullback is far far easier than predicting when.

I "was told" this was going to happen in 1-2 months back in 2010 when Greece was supposedly about to go with capital controls and riots in the streets, and the Greek banking system was far more intertwined then than it is today. In other news, the rapture is also still imminent.

I too wonder why at least one of the thousands of traders holding SPX don't find it in their best interest to trade 1 share of every stock that hasn't trades 30 seconds (or some other arbitrary number) after the open. Some days it goes on for literally hours. There's got to be an opportunity...

As Branson said, the best way to become a millionaire is to start out as a billionaire and buy an airline.

Actually that page states that "The “right to inspect the books and records of a corporation, is not an absolute right, regardless of the stockholders' motive.” Guaranty Old Line Life Co. v. McCallum, 97 S.W.2d 966, 967 (Tex. Civ. App.—Dallas 1936, no writ). In Guthrie v. Harkness, 199 U.S...

A 501(c)(3) is most certainly not required to list their donors in any way. A public corporation does have to provide their financials, and if you understand how to read them you could easily see how much they'd donated to tax exempt organizations in aggregate. There's nothing that I'm aware of...

As was already mentioned in the thread.

It's possible but probably not advisable to advertise how step by step. The way I'm thinking of would definitely leave you open to detection and make it clear what you were doing if any regulator wanted to check.

All very good reasons for you to move to Boise. Enjoy, I'm originally from next door in WA; the NW a beautiful place!

Certainly the futures trading at IB is regulated by CFTC?

IB is a sh%*tshow when it comes to knowing what the hell is going on with their business and in their industry. They're very much like many startups I've worked with that grew faster than they could hire good employees and grew beyond the capability of their management team. Not only did they...

It all depends what your industry is. If you're an entrepreneur founding a startup of any kind, but especially one that will require software developers, you're getting a huge benefit from the entire ecosystem of Silicon Valley. That ranges from access to capital to access to human capital that...