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Truth be told if the guy's figured out that being anti-Semitic doesn't get you anywhere he's learned a life lesson and should probably be welcomed back.

It actually baffles me how these guys throw products up with a "build it and they will come" attitude. We hustled hard to get both buyers and sellers to the table and liquidity certainly didn't make itself. That said, after hustling for it I didn't feel bad when others failed with a CMEesque...

Absolutely, having run a similar business myself I find it an outstanding niche to be in. There's nothing illegal or wrong about setting yourself up in such a business, it's really just the sign of a good business decision.

This thread pretty much answers that question, they're so bad they get a lot of threads about how bad they are, almost each of which indicates one more unhappy ex-customer. Again, pretty much no excuse for their platform or their treatment of customers, and let's not even get started with their...

I've certainly moved from IB and again if you look you'll see dozens of threads where others indicate they've left as well. It's actually a mystery to me why you'd stay unless you're a masochist or have significantly invested in building software for their API. Good companies don't suffer...

Had, they gave up on having their own currency in 2009 and finished demonetizing this spring.

Very well could be selection bias, but if you do a search here you'll see dozens and dozens of IB bugs and at most a couple for any other one broker. Certainly my experience with TOS and OptionsXpress has shown a 100% reduction in bugs from when I was with IB. And of course their customer...

I think there are far better global warming plays. It's important to understand how regulated utilities earn their returns. Especially regulated electric utilities in deregulated markets like most of National Grid's U.S. markets. The distribution utility earns a regulated rate of return on their...

Just because I don't think you've received a straight answer on this yet...You have a short term capital gain of $1000 that is taxed at your ordinary income rate. You net all your short-term gains and losses together so the total you're ahead or behind is your total gain/loss. The long vs...

It's no more complex than the dozens of other brokers out there who don't have errors with nearly their frequency. Even then you could forgive them except their absolutely horrible customer service who go into every call with the assumption that the customer is an idiot and there is no way in...

Startups are a completely different world from public equities and not just because of the risk. Take the term sheet. The difference between term sheets is so great that many startups would rather have a $5M round with a decent term sheet than a $20M round with a poor one even if both give up an...

I wish you all the best in all your endeavors Banjo. In my world when something posts something misleading they get called on it. We call that living in a reality based world, and if you can accept and learn from it then it will make you a better person. I certainly expect the same from you...

Some geniuses are insane. Some people, generally those who've never met an actual insane person, conflating that fact into thinking all insane people are geniuses. This could be what's occurring here.

Fair enough, the marketing side definitely gets a bunch of the value chain as well. Despite any recent foray's by China into marketing, I'd guess that the overwhelming majority of the marketing dollars for products sold in the U.S. stay in the U.S.

That's a bizarre response. My "propaganda criteria" is that you not publish knowingly misleading statistics and gaps in logic. What would your criteria be, since that apparently qualifies as "propaganda" in your book? Why the outburst on behalf on Zero Hedge anyway, they're pretty well known for...

This article is a great example of why I don't read them. First, they pull the logical fallacy of using absolute numbers in a relative world. The U.S. added 571,000 waiters and bartenders since 2014, so what. Without context and normalizing that number is meaningless. Did the percentage of the...

Can't argue with much of that. However my point wasn't that enlistment is an opportunity, it's actually a pretty crappy life with low pay and long hours. My point was that if a group of people who work long hours with crappy pay and frequent deployments and moves can get a technical degree, than...

Should have said something like "vast majority", as I pulled the number from my behind. But you really can't argue with the profit Foxconn gets from manufacturing Apple products versus what Apple gets, for example. Foxconn makes much of Apple's products, however Apple accounts for only 40% of...

I think your point that we compare like to like in education levels is a valid one (I also hold a similar opinion on Zerohedge, you didn't miss much on the actual article). I'd maintain that there is a vast landscape of tech jobs out there that don't require a 4 year degree, from sysadmins and...

When you sell an option the premium is yours forever. If the current holder ever exercises you're obligated to provide the underlying, except for cash settled options like SPX where you just end up settling in cash at expiration.