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The market does not move down, until someone else does something the market sits at 800.

Are you always this ignorant? How many banks have gone under in the past year compared to how many brokerages have gone under in the past year ? Which has more bad assets on the books, your average bank or IB? Which has more leverage on real underlying capital, your average bank or IB...

You shouldn't be charged anything overnight for long futures options positions. As I said before: "What IB says on their website and what their software does are 2 different things." The IB website say: "Carrying charges are applied for each net futures contract, net short call futures...

You are quite obviously taking chances as the bank you are wiring the money to is riskier than IB is. And exactly which investors "got hammered" when Lehman Brothers went under?

Ebay is the moron market for gold and silver. According to the 24hGold website a kilo gold bar sold on Ebay for 9.4% over spot !!! :eek: A dealer like tulving.com sells a kilo gold bar for less than 2% over spot.

The average IQ is 100 and by definition half of the population is below average. What percentage of the adult population can correctly read a railroad timetable? What percentage of the adult population can correctly fill out their own Form 1040EZ, let alone Form 1040 with some schedules?

Exactly how many people are setting up new hedge funds these days? Are there still investors that want to put cash into hedge funds? It would appear that there is much more work available for people helping to close down and mop up hedge funds.

Who the heck buys and sells stocks by looking at "book value growth"? Only liquidators care about book value. And they only care about the real book value, not the stated book value.

Where did you get that total nonsense from? Here is the correct data for multiple down years for BRKA stock: 1999 from 70,000 to 56,100 down 20% 1990 from 8675 to 6625 down 24% 1984 down 3% 1975 down 5% 1974 down 44% 1973 down 11% 1970 down 7% 1966 down 8%

Your numbers of 25k and the like make no sense. Shaw Nitro internet is capable of 25 Mbps download speeds. Try running a speed test with Giganews http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html and report the actual results.

In a normal interest rate environment IB has competitive interest rates on cash. It is this low interest rate environment and their benchmark of Fed Funds that make their current rates not competitive with simple money market funds.

Open interest can only be determined after all trades have cleared, so at the present time open interest data is only available after EOD.

I owe Citi money, is my account safe? :D

Bundled/unbundled is an independent choice for stocks and futures. If you do not hold futures overnight then unbundled is the lower cost choice. For stocks you would have to do calculations based on your volume, exchanges used and liquidity adding/taking.

All readers please note: I was not in any way recommending using tulving.com to actually purchase gold and silver bars. I was simply using tulving.com for relevant price quotes for gold and silver bars. Anyone who wants to purchase gold and silver bars or coins should thoroughly check out...

No problem with liquidity, there are plenty of dealers that buy and sell large gold and silver bars. If you don't want to pay a premium to spot, then stick with futures rather than bars.

No problem at all. The busted stocks just trade on the pink sheets with a new symbol. You can cover the short anytime you want to.

How can you get simple stuff so wrong? First, the CME is in Chicago so the time is 3:15 PM CST (the same time as 4:15 PM EST). Next, the contract specification clearly states that serial options (ie nonquarterly) in the money settle into a position in the underlying futures contract not a...

A 1000 oz silver bar or kilo gold bar easily beats the minimum purchase requirement at Tulving. Small amounts are for pikers. I only care about industrial size bars as that is the real market.

You can get delayed futures quotes from http://www.cmegroup.com/ and delayed futures charts at www.quote.com .