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    exercising put option

    it can be as described but much less so than in the past. the more typical purpose in buying a put is to create the equivalent of a short position with loss limited to the price paid for the put.
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    Very sad day...

    where is your exit plan?
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    Does other brokerage firms in USA charge money for not enough transection per month like IB does?

    if you traded like emptying a machine gun you would not have an issue of $12. pathetic or pathos. it is your choice
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    Does other brokerage firms in USA charge money for not enough transection per month like IB does?

    what is your point? you didn't answer my question. why do you have account at IB? why don't you invest somewhere and save the $12?
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    Does other brokerage firms in USA charge money for not enough transection per month like IB does?

    i am sure in your country the commissions are higher. if you don't trade what do you need IB for?
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    'Death Put' Hedge Fund Trial Starts Today

    interesting. tell us more.
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    FXCM loses US authorization over defraud, mulls selling clients to peer Gain Capital

    thread on subject was started yesterday. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/fxcm-booted-out-on-the-street.306614/ suggest you close thread.
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    Paying off mortgage

    simplest is to have instructions to close positions AT MARKET. bluntly, these situations goes with the territory. it is wake-up call for all of us. perhaps you should start a thread on the subject.
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    Paying off mortgage

    if the positions are liquid even a "even a ham handedstranger and/ or wife, if given prior instructions and authority can close positions without much difficulty.
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    Paying off mortgage

    a fixed mortgage at historically low interest rates is a bet that inflation will come back. if you won't be overleveraged, I like it.
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    Be Careful Doing Business With Right Line Trading Company

    he had only $700 to his name. who are you kidding?
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    Explosion of inflation under way - Are you ready Gary Cohn, Mnuchin and Ross?

    why would any company repatriate monies to the US it would be a roach motel. (as in capital controls when the dollar sinks to oblivion.)
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    Time to buy real assets

    " a man without land is not a man." Duddy Kravitz
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    Have you ever bought a stock .....

    you don't trade super- stocks. you invest in them.
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    Is Warren Buffett blind to tail risks/risks of ruin?

    where? I am sure you will claim hyperbole or poetic license.
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    IB - buy bonds - what happens if IB fails?

    if IB fails head for the Carpathian mountains. IB's failure will be the least of your problems.
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    'Death Put' Hedge Fund Trial Starts Today

    why? for giving away 600K?
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    'Death Put' Hedge Fund Trial Starts Today

    "It's protecting the issuers of the death-put bonds, financial institutions that Lathen caught mispricing the risk of death. <https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-16/hedge-fund-manager-profited-from-death-arbitrage>" the SEC in protecting the insurance company is a distant relative...
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    'Death Put' Hedge Fund Trial Starts Today

    it seems that Lathen is in trouble because he used customer's money in the scheme. why didn't he use his own money?
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