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You'd advocate keeping an employee with discretion over several hundred million dollars after displaying what was pretty clearly a rather public display of poor judgement, along with lying on the contract to rent the house? Because poor judgement is something most people compartmentalize really...

If they've been small and under the radar for a decade (first post in this thread is from 2006) one has to wonder how successful they are at their stated profession?

Police checking price controls=gov giving away snow blowers? Seriously?

Sorry, have to admit I don't get the meme.

I would ask you and syswizard, if you're software developers, do you have a hard time getting a job in the U.S.? Can you hire a highly qualified software developer quickly and easily? If all these evil foreigners are "taking" our software developer jobs, then it would be hard for a "real"...

Seems like a completely undefendable patent to me, how could they possibly know and then prove that another entity was using this method as well?

The 48 hour thing is clearly a jerk move, no excuses for that. It is a common business practice to "fire" customers who cost more than the revenue they bring in. It sounds like you may have run afoul of that. They devoted a significant amount of customer service dollars to you and anticipated...

Thanks, I just read up on it. Interesting stuff.

It appears a moderator changed my last response, taking out a quote of a previous poster, removing that poster's entire post, and then removing an entire sentence from my response and changing the last sentence of my response. Please. Don't do this. If you want to delete an entire post because...

While tea probably won't do it, sustained widespread civil disobedience has proven to be an effective agent for regime change around the world in dozens and dozens of cases. No "gunpowder and lead" required. I'd prefer if people don't die if they can achieve the same result without dying.

Got it, lots more google hits with "sting" than "string"! Looks like your memory was correct, it became public in '89.

You might be interested in Institutional Investor, it's a free magazine/site you just have to register and say you are somehow in the field. I know they have a hedge fund "report card" but not sure how detailed it gets. There are issues with hedge funds ensuring that they don't solicit to...

What the heck is an "FBI String trader"? If it's a conspiracy theory forget I asked.

Add to the overnight gap there is a far more insidious issue with these. The AM settlement isn't the opening price of the index, for index options. It is the price determined by using the opening trade in each stock in the index. Even in the S&P 500 it's possible that constituent stocks don't...

And Australia, and New Zealand, I'd like to see you tell an Aussie they're "in disarray"! Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Columbia are all on a pretty steady upswing if you want to talk South America, and Costa Rica and Belize in Central America. These are just places I've been and none seemed "in...

I guessed you were talking IB from about the second sentence. They make money by offering as automated a service as possible and hiring drones at just above min wage to interact with customers. Don't waste your breath arguing with them, try contacting a good introducing broker who can set you up...

It has a Beta of 1.3, which would indicate the opposite.

No, you may get to settle without admitting charges on something like front-running customers orders, but there aren't any cases of this magnitude where CFTC has accepted it. You're right that they probably won't recover any money. Can't squeeze blood from a turnip and this guy wouldn't have...

Wasn't close to a margin call at all, only positions in the account were vertical debit spreads on ES which are paid in full when you enter the position so I actually had no margin at all and lots of cash left over in the account. My margin in their dashboard showed $0. However if I'd exercised...

Again, if you can quote a reference that states that performing services in GA is exempt then you may have something to stand on. You didn't, we're apparently supposed to take your word on it as and ignore the reference I posted. Especially because you put the word "Period" after your sentence...