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Great thanks, I will look into IB.

I know this has probably been asked before, but after reading a lot of replies, it still is not clear to me which brokers are considered the best. So here is my criteria: 1. Putting between 5-10k down. (Am aiming to try to make between 300-1k a day?) 2. Would love the ability to trade...

Breen, i appreciate you bringing the conversation back to civility. You are right, that is a huge problem with government, especially our government. The only reason I would suggest such a radical policy is that, to me, this economy is about to go belly up for a long time, since I believe...

you f-in retard. why don't you think a little before you keep spitting paragraphs that have no real point. if a factory knows that if gdp is 3% its taxes will be at 30%, 2% at 20, and 1% at 10, do you think they will be confident in this system or afraid of the "drastic government...

I also meant to imply that tax rates would go up, even higher than they are now when times are good. So in essence a tax policy that seeks to flatten economic cycles. So when we are staring down the barrel of economic disaster, kind of like right now, business and individuals would have...

What would happen with a corporate tax rate and individual income tax rate that fluctuated with the market cycle? When GDP slows substantially perhaps the government could appropriately drop capital gains, income tax, and corporate taxes. So right now we might be looking at 10, 20, and 20...

What would happen with a corporate tax rate and individual income tax rate that fluctuated with the market cycle? When GDP slows substantially perhaps the government could appropriately drop capital gains, income tax, and corporate taxes. So right now we might be looking at 10, 20, and 20...

I'm of the opinion that "high unemployment" is a trend largely due to the benefits private corporations accrue investing in technology rather than human capital. If the above is a somewhat irreversible technological trend that is serving to greatly undermine the labor markets and in a sense...

I also think next week could get real ugly. that little head fake friday afternoon was pretty bearish but if we can hold 102.20 or so tomorrow morning it could perhaps rally up to 106 before earnings announcements. But more than likely I see us breaking 102, pretty much heading straight for...

I would love to be able to monitor the Credit Default Swap rates for different entities like Spain, Greece, Germany, Bank of America, BP, etc. Anybody know a good website or subscription service, besides Bloomberg, for this?

intelligent spending by government is not all about cost control. to me it is more about how to spend in ways that increase the velocity of the money doled out. for instance look at the the democratic program during the great depression: the Civilian Conservation Corp and try to find flaws...

If only he was forward-thinking enough as he presented himself during the election. Don't get me wrong the move from backward to neutral is forward enough for the first few years.

To me, our traditional labor market, at least in the developed countries is falling apart before our eyes. Corporations would rather use extra money to upgrade tech and cut fat, and American labor is pretty fat. This most likely means that the Developed World Economies are likely to putter...

I hate to butt into this thread without reading the whole discussion, but would just like to add that i believe that capitalism as we know it could be on its last legs due to the continued deterioration of the labor market and there being no obvious solution as private industry WILL NEVER HIRE...

good day and decent week. got rid of my gld which i had been holding since monday, a few srs trades and 96,000 citi which i rode from 3.99 down to 3.93 and back up to 4. +3350 though i missed out on the trade of the week, imo, which was loading up on abx options on wednesday. noticed...

+750 woke up late again even though i got 10 hours of sleep, so missed some great short entries when SPY couldn't hold 115. Traded pretty badly again but managed to jump in 100 .VIX 35 contracts expiring tomorrow at .10. got out of 30 to cover costs and am hoping for a -200 open, sorry...

yeah never seen this this dead either. +4420 went into the day with a plan to play ABK to the upside pre-earnings, worked out okay but i could have caught the .10 move better. played citi badly on the short side, should have been a great trade but unfortunately i slept through the bell...

I couldn't find an interesting thread about trader fills during the crash so if you have any interesting stories please post them here. I was long URE around 38 when things went nuts and i saw orders going through at 3.00 and an ask at 19.67. So I put a buy order in through Fidelity for 400...

Here is what i would do with $4000: First of all it is very important to watch stocks long term, 10-day, and daily graph and really understand the different sort of breakouts (to the upside) that can occur. A good example is the way Ford has traded over the last 6 months. Notice how it was...

hi neke, sorry to hear about your bad week. my only advice, and i hope you aren't offended by it, is that if you are taking large high-risk positions in a commodity stock like X, then you should also be very closely monitoring all major commodity etfs and commodity stocks: like SLX, JJC...