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birdman, so if you have $100,000 in an Ameritrade account, you can short $110,000 of a 3x ETF, or go long $400,000 of a regular non-leveraged ETF (what about going long a levered 3x ETF that would be some pretty serious leverage LOL). Might going short the 3x still be better off it it results...

LOL awesome.

Not bad for a day's work.

My dad bought me a one year subscription as a kid. I read that thing religiously - they had like weekly publications coming via mail. Loved it. But I don't ever remember it being particularly worthwhile. Thoughts on this service? I suspect my dad wasted his money haha.

Yea, seems like Robinhood would be easy to beat, at least in the near term when Robinhood is not making anything, or much, presumably they are relying on some long-term advertising thing to pan out (could be wrong). But what I REALLY want to know is how IB makes so much money, charging so...

I'm betting lower, for no good reason other than I am long lol.

dude, all covered!

THanks maximum! Funny, I was just thinking about that thread! I will have to revisit it. Just found it amazing that not only were stock funds cut in half (or more) in 2008, so were tons of bond funds - even if they were investment quality and short duration!

Thanks so much everyone, I really appreciate it. So it sounds like if I "trade" (I would not be trading really) forex at a forex shop, and can not go the step further, and say once I'm long Swiss Francs or whatever over the U.S. dollar, then invest those Fracs in Swiss stocks? I had always...

I was looking at all sorts of closed end funds. I was looking for how every thing fared in the Black Swan 2008 meltdown. At first I was like "convertible debt CEFs" - it may have done ok, the debt aspect probably kept them doing a little better. So, so wrong. Cut in half, or more. Then I...

Got some upside there... not much downside... I say launch the mofo...

LOL, can't argue with any of that! I'm slowly figuring this out hahaha.

Dollar cost averaging seems like the best thing around, by far. The only problem is it takes a LOOOOONG time to make it pull off. Ain't no one got no time for that! I gotta buy formula tomorrow!

You read this crap and you just can't imagine people buying into this crap. Communism doesn't work PERIOD. How many more hundreds of millions have to die to show it? Calling it something else won't change that result lol. What's even more amazing is that this is not coming up in a bad...

Yea, help a homie out lol.

This is what you call "having a good problem to have".

LOL Jack, I thought your math was money. :)

Can raise money, both equity and borrowings, much, much easier. Oh, and its a potential cash-out event for insiders. :)

I'm not sure I follow the whole aircraft carrier thing. We are using our aircraft carriers to make China buy our debt? I thought they were doing that on their own accord as otherwise the Yuan would appreciate, making the cost of their exports to the U.S. to rise, meaning they sell less? I've...

So by burn the dollar eves, do you mean just print dollars left and right. That is what I would guess. But if they do that, won't it burn the U.S.'s ability to borrow in the future? And make the U.S. dollar not the world currency reserve? Seems like that could cause HUGE harm.