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P. T. Barum made a fortune by selling the suckers what they craved.

Markups for physical gold and silver are under 10% for large bars. Tulving has kilo gold bars for $19.95 over spot (2.65% markup) and 1000 oz silver bars for $0.59 over spot (6% markup). If you have the cash you can buy all the gold and silver bars you can pay for.

How many threads are there going to be about the same nonsense? Please let us know when the COMEX warehouses are down to their last 99 bars of gold.

"Universa Investments, the $2 billion hedge fund founded by New York University risk engineering professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, did something that seems impossible for funds that keep 90% of their assets in cash: post triple-digit returns. The firm's Black Swan Protection Protocol funds made...

The COMEX gold contract is for 100 troy oz. "Grade and Quality Specifications In fulfillment of each contract, the seller must deliver 100 troy ounces (±5%) of refined gold, assaying not less than .995 fineness, cast either in one bar or in three one-kilogram bars, and bearing a serial...

Update on that post of mine. IB customers are now being charged $1.00 a month for the "free" ICE/NYBOT data feed. Contrary to the post from IB representative JPasciolla in the thread "What are you ER2 fellows doing..." and phone confirmation from another IB representative back in September...

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Any MTO traders or do they advertise on ET for fun?

No news cars were sold on Friday, each one was traded for 3 tons of M&M's.

"The GAO said corporations escaped paying federal income taxes for a variety of reasons including operating losses, tax credits and an ability to use transactions within the company to shift income to low tax countries." Big suprise that corporations that lose money don't pay income taxes...

Given that you will be using disaster stops of 150 to 205 ES points, what profits per trade or ATR does this system generate?

We get double dinged with the carrying charge because the commodities account is a separate account for credit interest calculations with its own $10,000 balance for zero credit interest on cash. Just appreciate your multiple contributions to IB's 47% profit margin.

You missed the point of my post. CME/CBOT has always kept the margin for YM as a percentage of the contract value significantly (about 20%) below that of the ES margin. Now the 2 margins as a percentage of the contract value are almost equal. ES from $5625 to $6188 YM from $4376 to $5625

IB charges $0.10 for each futures contract held overnight. It helps to maintain their 47% profit margin in their brokerage business. "Carrying charges are applied for each net futures contract, net short call futures options, or net short put futures options on a single underlying for each...

YM goes from $4376 to $5625, a 28.5% increase. No more trying to attract traders to the YM by offering a lower percentage margin than the ES.

The $55 a month is only for Professionals. Interesting that you have always been charged the $1 for this feed. Does the charge show up at the start of the month?

The fee used to be £1, but it was changed to $1 a couple of months ago. IB sent an email and message on October 22nd: "Effective November 1, IB will increase the ICE & NYBOT Professional monthly market data charge to correspond with the current exchange fee for this service. Price...

Thank you for your understanding of what life is like in IB's "sie müssen do it our way" advisor account hell.

A breakout trading system is a subset of trend catching systems. Breakout trading systems work great when there are strong trends and otherwise lose money.

"NY Governor Paterson’s appearance on Capitol Hill came a day after he warned that the state deficit over the next three and a half years was expected to be $47 billion." New York City and New York State are already in a deep fiscal hole due to reduced taxes from Wall Street. Now you want...

IB customers are now being charged $1.00 a month for the "free" ICE/NYBOT data feed. Contrary to the post from IB representative JPasciolla in the thread "What are you ER2 fellows doing..." and phone confirmation from another IB representative back in September that the $1.00 ICE/NYBOT data...