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Isn't spread trading as expensive as paying taxes because of the way those cfds are priced? If those cfds are not backed by futures contracts their trading should subject to counterparty risk.

Why haven't you just clicked on 'close position' instead of creating the sell orders?

This is funny. Why driving speculators to other countries would be a concern #1? They don't want others to benefit from the outcome of their stupid decision? Kill the cockroaches - don't let them escape. I guess socialism doesn't work in one given country - it has to rule the world.

ROI is not bound by any specific strategy. As I said in general capital committed to trade can be more or less than it's theoretical risk. The predefined risk of IC does not mean that you can't lose all your cash in one trade. So you need to keep in your account ( or keep at hand ) at least 4-5...

ROI is precisely that: 'return on investment', not 'return on risk'. What if the risk is undefined (as in case of a short stock). Besides in general capital committed to a trade can be greater or less than it's risk.

It should be on your account balance.

What buying VIX options contract has anything to do with VIX futures position? Those are 2 different contracts of different size. Your options position will be: price of 1 unit of VIX dec future * 100 units.

I believe IB provides cost basis of the trades.

1. Yes, you can. As I said IRS has no interest in what you do with your money once it is in IRA account. 2. Yes, you can in Roth IRA.

For the tax purposes IRS looks only at contributions to IRA account ( ins ) and withdrawals from IRA account ( outs ). IRS is not concerned with all your transactions on the account ( they are ignored by IRS). Neither IRS is concerned with total balance on the account.

Since the contributions to IRA account are limited so what are you going to do to with the rest of your trading capital? Unless you don't have more than $5,000 per year.

Withdrawals from Roth IRA are tax free.

The difference between Roth IRA and traditional IRA is that the contributions to Roth IRA are not tax deductible but withdrawals are tax free. For regular IRA contributions are tax deductible but withdrawals are taxed as ordinary income...

For purposes of a bailout means 'saving the banks from bankruptcy' in my book. I don't think it's possible to calculate upfront what's the risk of failure ( crisis) . What I mean is that insurance might not always be enough to bailout all the banks that would need it at the time of crisis. (...

But FDIC insurance protects client assets, not the banks. I don't believe there exists a type of insurance that can protect a business from bankruptcy.

Have you sent problem ticket to their customer support?

What if the guy doesn't day trade? What if he doesn't even trade in this account?

He is talking about Friday 30 min or so before market close. You should know better. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=178022&highlight=ib+down

And once again he will blame shorts for market's decline.

5.9% up for the front month. 2.7% up for the second front month. Besides VXX tracks a benchmark index. I don't remember it's name but you can look it up in VXX prospectus.