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That is why I called a "prediction" and I see market fluctuates and is not really going up in recent weeks. Considering economic data, FED, Greece, my prediction is a down day tomorrow (Wednesday). Closing action (last one hour) should tell us more.

Prediction: Tomorrow DOW should be down about 200 points or more so today is a great day to sell and maybe go short. I don't know about Thursday but tomorrow should be a big down day. Now DOW future is up 95 points.

If IB has increased margin rate and if I want to be careful in trading, I would also be cautious. I would assume they know more than I and they know that market might become more volatile in the near future so I would not use full margin and just inch up my cautiousness.

My knowledge is much much less than yours in terms of margin requirements and trading futures but as far as I know , IB DOES require different margin for futures (like ES as I have traded it just a few times) during the trading hours and keeping the position overnight. When I used to trade it in...

I don't want to go off the subject but iust look at my option trades today. Look at the commissions. The negative numbers are rebates. That makes me addicted to IB :)

I don't trade futures in my IRA account but I just put a fake ES future option order and it was accepted and then after 2 minutes I cancelled it.

Make sure that you set your IRA account as margin and not as cash.

My trade today on MCD. Sold 17 naked Call 95 expiring 2 weeks from now at 0.9

I did not like SBUX coffee before then I switched to Americano and I was ok and then I liked it. Now Panera coffee is too watery for me and it is not fresh many times but you have free refill that I have used it once in 100 times that I have been there. Pricewise, it is more expensive than SBUX...

One edge that MCD had and has lost it while ago was "cheap" food. People remember "dollar" menu which does not exist anymore so if you are frugal and want to eat cheap, MCD is not an option anymore (there are no options at all other than MCD). So if you want to have a burger that will cost you...

I am not long on those stocks but if I wanted to pick, I would pick starbucks over CMG.

That is my personal opinion. My point was that you cannot extrapolate the future from past. Many great companies like Blackberry, Circuit city ,.... got bankrupt because things change and evolve and they cannot adapt. I see MCD cannot and will not be able to compete with other new restaurants...

Clearing house takes care of everything.

You can figure it out yourself. Put the trade on both paper and real money accounts and then see whether the real money trade goes against you while the sim one is profitable?

I am not expecting $88 to happen anytime soon. recently MCD has become directionless. When market is up, MCD does not follow the market and in down days does not fall that hard.

Lower highs in B and C compared to A and then it fails to break A in D and if it breaks level F, it will attract more shorts. The critical level is $88.

I cannot buy it or it may not be effective in long term. On TV, it was mentioned that profit margin for a breakfast sandwich is much less than a burger ($0.85 cent vs $1.8) so if they sell more breakfast sandwich that might chip away from their burger sales. That is what was said on the report...

How did you get that $96 story? Sorry to upset you but the option is Call 97 and the premium that I got was 1.07 so I am safe till 98.07 and there is only one day left. I can cover it at 4 cents now but I want all of it. 4x17=$68 is a nice dinner in a luxury restaurant !!.

I hope you make money. I have attached the top 10 for IWM and also another stock GEVA in top 10 of IWM which has over $6 loss per share. They are not like WMT or INTC or JNJ with profit which if they go down , you can ask why. When Russel 2000 goes down (that it will but I cannot say when) you...

I am happy that we both are constantly making profit. You claim it, I prove it. Check out the attachment.