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I was gonna say. Sounds like they don't know how to calculate the real risk on a covered call. Sounds like you need a new broker.

I remember Greenspan wringing his hands about it in front of some Congressional committee. I suspect he has an academic's understanding of derivatives, but still. Supposedly the use of futures as portfolio hedges was a factor that accelerated the downdraft in the 1987 crash.

Someone from Oanda posted this on their message boards this morning: I had been wondering this myself.

It depends on the observer's frame of reference. Bwaahaha.

Cuz the Fitzgerald Contraction will make your "shortie" into a "longie"

Because it's cool.

Closed my longs and shorts for a net gain. On EURUSD I had 1200 units in my short account and 800 units in my long account. Closed them both at 1.4005

I'd only use an ORB on a day that my prior analysis said was most likely to be a trending day. I'd use a mean reversion technique on a chop day. Bollinger bands, etc.

In comparison ES was downright boring today.

Man, some people have NO sense of humor.

I made sure I was flat going into today's trading. You don't want any open positions when the universe ends. :cool:

I don't know what was up before, but the little green boxes are back now.

LOL gives a whole meaning to "havin' a forty"

Oanda's normal 0.9 pips on EURUSD has been 1.2 over the last few days.

Too bad my mortgage doesn't go away if WAMU goes under.

#enthios Roger that.

IB has a "limited margin" account type for IRAs.

You should get one, even if you don't use margin.

Check out othernet on IRC. There's #enthios and a bunch of others that day trade e-minis. They seem pretty low-key.