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The COMEX warehouses as of 10/07/08 have 8,594,917 oz of gold. Is that enough for you? If you have the cash you can buy all the 100 oz gold bars you want. It is the small stuff that is in short supply.

It is the Globex contracts that won't backfill properly. ES, NQ, EMD, GE and 6E all have problems. YM, ZN and TF backfill fine and cash indices backfill fine. IB please fix your backfill server for Globex contracts.

Obvious fake as no one died after hiding the money. The correct acronym is TRAP (TREASURY-SPONSORED RATHOLE ASSET PISSAWAY).

Morons do this type of nonsense. When your friend's bank shuts down she will not be able to access the safety deposit box. When all the banks in the world shut down paper money will be used as wall paper. People worried about financial collapse don't put their trust in a stack of...

I repeat: #1 rule has always been to preserve your capital. The losers on Wall St got greedy and ignored rule #1. The combination of greed and excess leverage will always end up in a blowup. Being smart or stupid doesn't matter when you are greedy.

I'm a buyer with maximum margin at -1. :D

Update from IB pushes off the margins increases for one day. Oct 07, 2008 15:21 EDT MARGIN INCREASE UPDATE In the interest of providing clients with sufficient opportunity to deposit additional funds and/or adjust their positions, the margin increase originally scheduled to be...

The people on main street are financial morons. #1 rule has always been to preserve your capital.

Next week I'm putting in my bid to buy Iceland for $99.99.

Only had a problem today with Globex contract backfill. Cash index backfill worked fine.

What do you mean by "I examined my trade logs" ? Did you just look at the trade reports? Or did you look at log.Mon.txt? Or did you view the TWS audit trails? The TWS audit trails would show you exactly in detail what orders were placed and what executions and cancels did/did not happen.

Report transactions to whom? There is no requirement to report 401(k) or IRA trades.

Song Of The Day I Don't Like Mondays By The Boomtown Rats Written by Bob Geldof "Tell me why I don't like Mondays I want to shoot The whole day down"

The estimated current year earnings for NM is only $0.90 giving it a PE of 5.

Only one? There have to be dozens of hedge funds in trouble. Plenty of hedge funds have already shut down in 2008 and more will be shutting down in coming months. Here is one example: "Laurus Capital Management, which manages $1.6 billion and has posted nearly 16% annual returns since 2001...

IB is a clearing firm for many exchanges worldwide. If you are concerned about cash then take positions rather than hold cash. IB would have to chew through its $4 billion in capital before customers had a problem. Please name some brokers where your cash is safer than it is at IB.

The Dow bottomed on July 8, 1932 at 41.22 less than 3 years after the crash of October, 1929.

The US Investing Championship won run by Norm Zadeh and ended after the 1994 contest.

How could you have missed the news about Barney Frank's paid male escort running a male hooker ring out of Barney Frank's apartment. "Back in 1985, Frank had engaged the services of a male escort named Stephen Gobie, who had advertised his "hot bottom" in a personal ad. Over the next two...

Hope you paid the $160 by credit card so you can dispute the charge. Just think, you probably saved thousands of $$$ by not trading the signals.