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Scottrade will let you open with just $500, but to get level II you have to use the Elite platform - and to use the Elite platform you need $25K in your account. Alliance will let you open an account with $2K, but I don't know what bells and whistles you get with it.

I think ETFs killed OEX options too. I used to trade the OEX back in 98 and quit in 99. I never gave OEX options another thought until one day a few months back when I checked the volume on them out of curiosity. They have a fraction of the volume they had back then and the spreads are MUCH...

One of my favorite bars is a dive bar on the wrong side of the tracks in downtown San Diego. If you can get past the sight of crawling insects and the odor of urine, downtown dive bars are a great place to meet interesting fringe characters. Many of the regulars there receive government...

So, this guy was on the Bainbridge negotiating with the Americans when the rescue went down. It must have sucked to be him when he found out the hostage was rescued and his buddies were dead. Wonder what he said right about then? "Heeeeyyy, let's just call the whole thing off, huh?" Better...

Yes, kick ass! This looks like a story in progress, not very many details - but it looks like the world's strongest navy has it's sea legs back!

It's embarrassing as hell. The most powerful navy in the world being punked out by a rag-tag band of pirates. They don't even need a SEAL team to handle it, any of the surface ships regular boarding parties could do the job. At least they USED to....

I thought it was highly embarassing when British navy sailors surrendered to the Iranians a couple of years ago without firing a shot. Now the US navy is repelled by this raggedy-ass bunch of pirates in a lifeboat.

My credit union is insured by the NCUA. I've recieved two emails from them in the last year or so assuring me that they are safe, even though they have some exposure to the declining southern California real estate market. The fact that they sent me two emails causes me a little concern so I...

Even if IBM doesn't buy, JAVA is in play now. Well, at least I kind-of-sort-of think it is. I thought the same about Yahoo when their deal with Microsoft fell apart but nothing happened there. M&A stocks don't seem to get jostled around like they used to in years past.

You're showing your age. Back during the daytrading boom of the 90's traders started referring to Naz stocks as listed stocks as well as the NYSE stocks. I remember seeing a lot of media stories referring to Naz stocks as "listed" too. They only referred to the pinks as unlisted or OTC.

God fucking damn what the fuck is wrong with those people!?!?!?!

BBC news reported that the cafe named in that article has been burned down now.

One of the news organizations reported that the police had been called to his house before. He had also been in arguments with his neighbors, twice in fistfights. Seems like he was a real jagoff. On officer.com there was a posting that says he was an ex-Marine. That isn't true. He was kicked...

North Korea space launch 'fails' North Korea failed in its attempt to get a satellite into space after a rocket launch early on Sunday, US and South Korean officials say. Two stages of the rocket and its payload landed in the Pacific Ocean, a US military statement said. Hours earlier...

I was raised in the Appalachian mountains of southeatern Kentucky, the buckle of the Bible belt. As a child I was in church every Sunday morning, a Baptist church of course, like it or not. There were no political affiliations on display there. The people in those pews were believers in the...

He knew English well enough to say "America sucks".

PrintBack to story . NY gunman angry over poor English skills, job loss By WILLIAM KATES, Associated Press Writer William Kates, Associated Press Writer 47 mins ago BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – The man who police say killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at an immigrant community center was...

Carlos Slim lent them a few million at 14% interest. I've always admired Slim as an astute businessman, but I wonder if he made a bad decision by investing in the NYT.

WTF is your problem man?!?!?!?!?! What is this, the 569th thread you've started on this?!?!?!?!

By Martin Vaughan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. prosecutors Thursday filed the first criminal charges against a U.S. client of UBS AG's (UBS) Swiss banking services, in the wide-ranging tax-evasion probe involving the bank. Steven Michael Rubinstein, of Boca Raton...