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    IPO prospectus lays out main risks to Aramco's operations

    Publicly it's being described as an effort to diversify away from oil. They do have several GW of solar they're putting in that will eventually provide the majority of their electricity so they are taking some action toward that stated goal. But they're also the former home of 15 of the 19 9/11...
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    How to file taxes without showing your strategy to you tax accountant ?

    If you're talking about quarterly estimated taxes, you can pay them base on an estimate and if you're short you just pay interest on the amount you were short. If you make all your gains in Q4 and can demonstrate that you can get the payment schedule adjusted to account for that. Or, easier path...
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    A Giant Bet Against Natural Gas Is Blowing Up

    I completely agree with the underlying concept, but I feel like NG is just too easy to ramp up now with fracking and has too many small players to avoid periodic overcapacity issues. With oil it's big projects telegraphed out years in advance so new players are discourage from entering if it's...
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    691,000 people moved out of California last year. Here's where they went.

    What part of California did you live in where they called it Cali? That was as cringe worthy as Frisco when I lived there and a sure way to tell someone wasn't a local.
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    691,000 people moved out of California last year. Here's where they went.

    Amazing how all of the states you listed had a demonstrably larger tax base last year than they did the year before and the year before that and.... And the GDP of all of those states has been increasing each of those years as well. I know, you love your narrative based on antecdotal reports of...
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    Long term investment of Natural Gas

    Yes, the deal is to set up a purchase agreement with the site host for as long as you can at a fixed cost per kWH/BTU, the longer the better for them and you to cover the initial cap costs.
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    Long term investment of Natural Gas

    Combined heat and power using gas to generate electricity and hot water.
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    Corporate America is quietly working to suppress the voices of small investors

    A company has the choice to remain private with only accredited investors or access the significantly larger public markets. It's completely disingenuous to demand access to those public markets and restrict the right of your small shareholders simply because they're small. If you want the money...
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    Long term investment of Natural Gas

    I was looking to hedge actual exposure to gas rates for a generation project I was working on that would actually consume gas every year for 10 years. So I'm some cases, yes it matters what price you can hedge for 2029 if you have actual 2029 exposure! But certainly, if you are just trading then...
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    Long term investment of Natural Gas

    Depending how long is long there just wasn't any volume there last I checked (I was trying to go out 10 years with exposure every year). I agree with @bone, and would add that you might want to look at the MLPs with gas exposure.
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    High-Frequency Trading Firm Pays $64.7 Million in Record Spoofing Penalty

    And here I thought he was playing favorites because I didn't see him.:( That's OK, his current persona is getting a bit long in the tooth for him, I think we're due for iteration number 7 or 8 here pretty soon. If you're (un)lucky he may not block you right away so as to be sneaky about his...
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    IB Margin requirements on FOP strategies

    Not sure if this is related to your issue, but when I traded with them I noticed they treated every leg as independent, so for example if you bought an ES FOP vertical spread (meaning you mathematically couldn't lose more than you already paid for the spread) they still charged you a margin, in...
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    Account manager at IB

    Wow, that's a refreshing admission from IB that their customer service needed improvement! It's good to hear you're actually working on that, now if you can just get rid of "The Algorithm" or at least stop thinking of and in fact referring to it in the third person as if it's an omnipotent being...
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    If you want to get rich, spend 1/10th your income on a car..and "3/16 of your income on your rent"

    The entire unexamined premise behind all these types of articles is that money is an end unto itself. I'm by no means a profligate spender, I drive a 15 year old car with 150,000 miles on it. But at the same time during my 20 years in the military I certainly spent more than 3/16 of my salary on...
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    Is Oanda just a bucket shop?

    The answer to any "Big company manipulated quotes to steal $50 from me" bullshit is that if they're doing this then you could open a second account and buy on the out of market-quotes and make a killing. If you don't at least try that, then you're either 1. Too stupid to realize this potential...
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    Possible to write/buy options on private company stocks?

    Here in the US small claims court is limited to a few thousand dollars in damages depending on state. Anything larger than that is handled in civil court vice criminal court, which seems to be the distinction you were looking for, although civil cases can have juries as well. Hey, on the bright...
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    US Taxes on Long-Dated Contracts Held > 1 Yr

    Think about the fact that you have to mark to market on Dec 31st, no way to make it a LT gain (that's not really the reason but demonstrates how it just couldn't possibly be).
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    Possible to write/buy options on private company stocks?

    Small claims? I think this is a different league than you think it is!
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    Interbank FX, anyone?

    If you're not already aware of them you might want to check out https://www.nuclearphynance.com/ and https://forum.wilmott.com/ Not nearly as active as here but much more hard core quant.
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    Interbank FX, anyone?

    Perhaps a poor word choice on my part, I was trying to point out that you spent little time engaging in conversations about anything but your project or helping out folks with questions or even getting into innane pointless conversations....in short you didn't do what it takes to be considered...
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