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A very rational analysis. I'd maintain that as a customer or potential customer I'd be fine with a company that determined 1) saying "We discovered we can't make money on class A of business, so we're restructuring it so that we can continue to offer it". Fair enough, makes sense, doesn't insult...

Like I said, a little humbleness goes a long way when you're a CEO. Calling your customer's laughable when they have a legitimate complaint and point out why the response looks irrational from their point of view is a horrible business practice. Making irrational looking changes and offering...

Your comment "Peterffy should hire you as a consultant! Obviously you know better than he how to run IB." pretty clearly indicates someone who feels that it's inappropriate for a customer who is unhappy with a company's services to tell them that and that the CEO of a company always knows better...

A CEO who thinks they know better than their customers is a shitty CEO, according to almost any work that's been done on the subject.

I have to agree with this and truetype and would go even further to say that if you're at an entrepreneurial school you see it as similar long term expectations on dollars alone even before controlling for quality of life, which itself is highly valued. I don't even know why the banks bothered...

It seems that many of the issues you cited could be eliminated with a couple pushes of the "ignore" button, no?

Granted my explanation is grossly oversimplified; this paper does a much better job of actually explaining it http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf This article is a quicker read...

It does store a unique value such that if I do a transaction with you today, I can figure out what transactions you did from then on, no? Grossly oversimplified, but essentially you would be known at ghas3k34kj2jk which is meaningless until I do a transaction with you that I see is with...

Of course, I just mean that it would be visible to any participant in the blockchain as well, which would be us.

My dad does that! Damned if I can convince him he's valuing his time at below minimum wage when he drives 15 min to save a less than a buck.

You can get around things like their 44 day hold on returning an ACH to a bank other than the one originating it with two accounts. You just take opposite sides of a short dated OTM option transactions in the two accounts, and eventually zero out the account you sent the ACH to and can do what...

Don't go blowing their minds now, sounds like just hiring a CIO is beyond them! In all seriousness though, wouldn't a blockchain allow users to eventually figure out who was responsible for a given transaction? Much like you can trace the whole life of a Bitcoin and figuring out the identity of...

Is that the worldwide list or just the UK list? It is sadly short either way.

I'm not secretly grateful, I'm pretty openly grateful for the insights, answers, and history lessons from people like sle, fsu, and Bob although Bob at least getting compensated in a way for his content (hopefully!). Thanks guys.

robots.txt keeps the page from being indexed at all. If you want people to pay to get behind your paywall you want your articles indexed, you just only want people to actually be able to read the first couple paragraphs. I'm not aware of Google caching full WSJ articles, I think the OP might...

IB is a large and as far as we know stable company. They aren't immune to failure because their CEO has a lot to lose, that's all.

Interesting stuff, thanks.

Again, very much the way Jesus would respond. I'm sure he's very proud of you. Really, you need to repeat after me. Voting isn't the same as legislating a legal law the United State! I've expressed this to you no fewer than 4 times, and you keep returning to rebutting an argument I've never...

I know if you are an international customer of an SIPC covered broker you are covered, the SIPC website actually specifically states that. But if IB Hong Kong is a separate entity you may be entirely correct that it isn't covered. I'd be interested in someone with more knowledge on that than me...

So this isn't an attack on you, but I think an important way to think about thinking. In general we have an idea, in the scientific method we call it a hypothesis. Something that we might justify by hypothesizing event type A can't happen because B is true. So far no problem, we have a...