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Do NOT put your money into a fund. Expenses are a ripoff and completely unnecessary with the great number of other alternatives. My advice is to build a watch list of very high quality, high yielding stocks, AND WAIT for pullbacks. Be sure to set up your IRA for dividend reinvestment when...

I can't logon to either of two systems. Phone lines are busy. Anyone else having an issue>

+1 If you don't have a well-defined strategy in place, then switching to a different instrument isn't likely to improve your profits. Flying by the seat of your pants may work after you've spent 10 years in the game, but not at this stage in your career.

So sad...but so true. There isn't a broadcast, cable, or internet news source in the U.S. that can any longer be trusted. And print is moving in the same direction. Because of the splintering of the news audience across a variety of media, their budgets have all been slashed, and they now...

I don't know your age. But long term the best bet you can make is on high-cap stocks paying good, and regular, dividends. IMO, there is no reason to be in ETFs that pay no yield, when a portfolio of good dividend paying diversified equities regularly outperforms the S&P long-term.

Thanks JackR. But you lost me on that last line of calculation, where you have +/- before Column G (adjustments). Assuming G is a positive number, is G added or subtracted from the total of Sale-Cost?

I'm looking at an 8949 from IB. I'm confused about the general issue of how the "(G) Adjustments to gain or loss, if any", should impact the overall calculation of gains when including Sales Price and Cost or other Basis. Simple example: (e) Sales Price is 500,000 (f) Cost is...

Obviously you were not around for Vietnam. The draft gave politicians pretty of canon fodder to throw into the jungles, and nobody game a damn until over 50 thousand were dead.

It isn't hard at all. Last year I spent ONE night laying in a hallway in an observation wing after I went in for some dizziness. BIG MISTAKE. Ended up with a perfect health report after a dozen tests that I didn't order, and half of which were not necessary, and a bill for $12 THOUSAND...

Trayvon was a punk. Zimmerman is a punk. They got into each other's faces. And Florida law permits anyone to stand their ground and defend with deadly force. This happens every day. But this particular day was a very slow news day, and this particular family is a very verbal...

I want to add here...as one who nearly lost his entire net worth selling puts in 2000...that one should never short puts that can generate a margin call or put you in serious jeopardy in a worst-case-scenario. The strategy can have some value in specific cases that the trader has clearly...

LOL. Damn good idea. Wish I'd thought of it. Or, if someone has the coding talent, they can hack into the CNBC studio teleprompter and read the copy before the announcer. Or, better yet, insert their own copy into the teleprompter before it gets to the announcer. Imagine the...

Assuming that one is trading stocks: 1. What happened with the stock yesterday? 2. What happened at today's open? (Think about why that might be important. If traders sold off a stock at the open, do you really want to play for an intraday low expecting a rally?) 3. What is happening...

Certainly the low VIX and rise in markets hasn't hurt, as well as the big cuts in financial center employment. The "Financial Industry" that an FTT is designed to target isn't the same industry that it was in 2008. By now the bad players have all gone sailing. Literally.

Yes, I had to laugh at the tag line. Just hope they aren't painting a target on their back for hackers looking for something to take aim at.

The strategy handed out in a public meeting showed ONLY gains and no losses over hundreds of trades (with the actual 'trades' themselves listed), and promoted an overall gain of 48%. That is the headline on the front page, with no mention of losing trades still running. It was not UNTIL I...

The promotional materials that I have seen from CoolTrade (aka Robotic Trading Systems) give one the impression that it is possible to make hundreds of winning trades with few or no losing trades. The fact is that there is no shortcut to making profits trading the markets. There are no...

The quote I referenced from the Bloomberg article has been removed from the article.

>>“Financial transactions by individuals or small businesses including mortgages, bank loans, insurance contracts and other normal financial activities would not be covered, according to the Commission."<<

How about partnering with a few appropriate ET sponsors or other vendors, to arrange free-use or free-trial periods of their services. Fee-based information, data, or trading services such as a Briefing.com or Collective2 would be good. E.T. winners here could be selected via some kind of...