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interactive brokers doesn't allow proceeds from short sales to be invested in T bonds.

Interest on or investing of short sale proceeds. Interactive brokers only gives a tiny amount of yield on cash that comes from short sales.(and in tiers) What is the industry standard, and are there banks/ brokers who allow you to put the proceeds into 30y T-bonds? Thanks.

If you're doing a lot of volume usa a proprietary firm if you're not doing a lot of volume: european broker/ bank (more expensive/ trade though)

thanks a lot.

Anyone know where to get free or low cost historical data +- 10 years for US stocks? Thanks.

There are some redemption as the flagship AHL has yielded only 0.5% the last 12 months. I don't think there's anything alarming (yet).

Anyone know of a site that tracks the buys and sells of the bigger hedge funds? Thanks.

Let's ask octopus Paul

In Soviet Russia stocks short you!

I was thinking more of structure of a client's portfolio and communication of the structure to the client. For example: 10% commodities, 30% bonds, 10% managed futures, ... Investors should be explained that when 1 asset class perform worse the others performs better etc. Surprisingly not a...

Since I'm currently advising + in talks about managing money, i'll throw in my 2 cents. Work with some good banks/ brokers/ money raising firms. And more importantly; don't let individuals invest more than 5% of their liquid net worth in your fund.

You are short a portfolio of 100 small and midcap stocks. Every 1% the S&P goes up, your portfolio loses 0.5%. You see why it would make sense to hedge with/ be long SPY or ES. This makes even more sense if every 1% the S&P goes down your portfolio goes up 1.5%

never use a market order or a non direct access broker for stocks.

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http://www.tradersnarrative.com/list-of-proprietary-trading-firms-735.html there are some with offices in france, germany, spain, holland etc on this list

www.futuresource.com

europe holding up ok as well dax down 18 pts -0.3% which is not bad considering the US close last friday.

cover some of your short

This reminds me of Georges Soros, who supposedly gets lower backpain when he's in a wrong trade. Didn't Linda B. Ratschke write an article about monitoring your nervousness etc when in a trade?

thanks i found out that they still do this http://pfgbest.com/worldcup/ but i believe that you have to open a real 15k account to enter it.