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I believe the crocodile Birkin is expensive because they stopped making them when the actress who inspired the bag protested.

Same can be said for exotic cars, watches, or homes with an attached bathroom with running water. Many say that trading is a worthless activity. Instead of trading your capital how about spending your money on creating housing for the poor? And don’t give me that “I give a lot of money to...

Part of systemic racism is that we aren’t tolerant of differences, even if we have no experience with them. I read somewhere 60percent of Americans have never met a Muslim. yet, I bet 60+percent have an opinion on all Muslims. Generalizing has a place. For the most part it’s obvious when it’s...

Plus its not just about deaths. My brother-in-law is 39. Super healthy, runs marathons and triathalons. He’s not going to have serious lung issues. He got COVID from a coworker 3 months ago. He had one day where he felt miserable, but otherwise okay. He still can’t taste or smell. No one knows...

Run it on your desktop and use GoToMyPC to log into your desktop. That’s what I do.

Fewer Republican voters in November.

You have to subscribe to markit or some other provider. The stocks get called typically when the div is large. I suspect IB is talking as If you were short. I doubt IB will call your stock for you.

It’s disrespectful to our troops to kneel during the national anthem at a sporting event. But it’s fine to salute the flags of nations that killed hundreds of thousands of our troops in the past. And no comment on allowing a foreign power to pay bounties to kill our troops now.

Borrow loan is the most opaque market in the securities industry. Bid offers are not transparent and the firm can take a nice haircut. Watch out on lending your dividend paying stocks. Cash in lieu is taxed at ordinary income and not at the qualified dividend rate.

So interactive broker has no obligation to the nbbo but Etrade should make you whole on your borrow fees

i recommend the ones where you don't lose money.

Results are overrated. Anyone can get lucky or unlucky over s period of time. But to see a proper trading process and to have a keen trading insight is worth learning from regardless of the person’s pnl.

It’s an easy solution: don’t count the homicides. Then there won’t be any.

It’s not worth arguing with someone who is at the Natenburg level of their options journey.

Absolutely you are thinking about this the right way. There is no such thing as trading for income. When you sell options you bet that the options will be worth less than you sold them for (hoping for them to be worthless). It’s speculation and not income (like interest from a bond or a...

What contradicting is there. Go back to your pointless posts... and the short shorts thread.

Hardly. Though I’m not sure you know what “groupie” means. You shouldn’t use words you don’t understand.

I use E*TRADE and an one of their more active accounts. I have necer had one outage in the last 9 years. Etrade has some problems, but the robustness of their system is not one of them. Even in fast markets.

It’s available in the options market. Also there are services that will tell you want the average borrow cost is. More over the borrow cost can change very quickly (like the price of a stock). All this being said, the stock borrow-loan markets are one of the most opaque. It’s part of the risk...

It would be nice if they told you the borrow fee ahead of time. However, if they don’t provide that information, you can choose to go to a broker that does.