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Give it another 2-3 years before calling a top.

About $0.015 for every $1000 overnight.

How would you deal with the scenario that indeed the markets will eventually become less volatile but before that happens you'll be either forced to liquidate your position or cover it with more capital?

Good point - how much is too little, how much is enough?

I am with you man. But I am just optimistic by nature.

Remember IB automatically liquidates your position once it falls below the margin limit. IB does not issue the margin calls. So you have to have more cash in your account than the actual margin minimum posted on IB's website to give yourself some room in case position moves against you.

The stock is priced at $9999 when the market is closed for this stock. You'll never see stock was actually traded at this price.

Off the regular market hours trade can cause auto-liquidation if excess liquidity drops below 0. The volume of trading has no affect on auto-liquidation event being triggered. Only your money is at risk all the time and never of the broker.

Maintenance Margin Calculations ON A REAL-TIME BASIS excess liquidity is checked to ensure that it's >=0. If it is negative, the account is subject to liquidation on a real-time basis. The following calculations are used to determine excess liquidity: Securities excess liquidity = Securities...

Anything can go wrong. This is not the point. As far as I am concerned the customer is always right. Even if he is wrong.

IB customer support sucks because they don't have any competition on the market for now. I wish there were some alternatives to IB.

As long as the fundamentals are strong. Credit crunch is not the news any more and it will be priced in by the market if not yet.

Yes, he does. Since as ancient people said: This too shall pass.

No worries, we are heading for a soft landing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070819/ts_afp/marketsfinanceeuropeeconomyproperty;_ylt=Ar6cLHEaFoKplwncwYkcqC1vaA8F

That's why they lowered the rate, didn't they?

Very interesting explanation. I am still a bit confounded. Dec closed at 95.045. But cannot this closing price be given a different interpretation? For example since actually we can never be sure what market expects to be rate in the future ( since I believe the future rate of 5% that...

I hate the new format.

But what does it mean that the further out fed contracts have a higher price than near term contracts. Does it mean that the market expects the rates will go down let's say 6 months from now?

I have question. I am confused by your suggestion that the fed funds futures can move from about 9477 up to 9495 around fed decision time. I looked at the history of the fed funds rate changes (http://www.the-privateer.com/rates.html) and the historical charts at manfutures.com and I never...

Friday's close was 9477.5.