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    Blackjack - counting cards

    I believe the pro's don't consider it gambling but advantage play. Beating the casino is a uphill battle though. Scalping the ES may be an easier goal. With single deck being replaced by 8 deck shoes and 50% penetration(some CSM's in places) makes it impossible to win. www.cardcounter.com...
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    Miami or South Florida --

    www.realtor.com $150k may be a little low. The prices in florida are a bit lower then the big cities. Except for south beach that is :D . I have been looking in ft. Lauderdale also.
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    What's the best way to trade full time, while working for someone else full time?

    IT guys want to get out just as bad as anyone else sometimes more! Ideally you would want to convince him to get you another machine laptop desktop whatever connecting to dsl. So you have one box connected to corporate and one to the internet. Do you have your own office? or are you in cubeland?
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    LLC Dividends

    Can a single member LLC elected to be taxed as a corp pay dividends? Would that make sense to do this? Instead of electing pass through taxation on a single member LLC? Receive dividends every quarter? I know when I incorporated my Illinois LLC I could have elected not to have pass through...
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    IB Tracing Ip Address

    Very curious thread. But The internet thing could have many loopholes. Ip's are not really location specific. I seriously doubt any broker has location ip audits done by the SEC/IRS.(At least for now). I would imagine it boils down to where you registered with the broker and what the laws are...
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    Hang Seng

    Its not that bad I was screwing up the currency conversion. Looks good. Nice price movement. Thanks
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    IB market data subcription question

    Is a trust considered a professional organization? Are there any additional fee's for trusts?
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    Hang Seng

    Ewile, Where do you get your market data? Yes the big Contract is a bit rich. But I would like to tech analyze it. Thanks
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    Hang Seng

    Anbody out there trade the mini Hang Seng? Or have an opinion on other products in that timezone? Australia? Thanks
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    Volitility

    Is there any free charting sites that offer volatility as a lower indicator? I see that bigcharts has something called fast volatility? But don't think it has es? I checked out livecharts but didn't see anything on the free version at least. Does esignal or qcharts have this covered? Thanks
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    illegal shortsale/profit removal

    There was a posting that stated it depended on broker. But by the response I guess not in this case. Thanks!
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    illegal shortsale/profit removal

    Another Rookie Question Do you need to specify the shortsell for equities only? Do you need to specify a shortsell on futures? Options you can sell? How does this work at IB? -Thanks
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    Investment expenses for non traders

    If your corp buys the books isn't it an expense. Therefore the tax benefit? Thats probably ok? Are seminar's deductable for an individual?
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    anyone daytrade options on qqq

    Sounds hard w/bid ask spread what sorta strategy are you using?
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    Help with an arbitrage opportunity

    very nice explanation Dotom
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    Help with an arbitrage opportunity

    Buy the stock Sell call Buy put . Neutral to short position? You get the Dividend? Is that right.
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    Options Software

    What do people recommend? Optionvue? others? I was just demo'ing esignal to see the package. They don't have historical option data.
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    Which Index Options?

    Selling naked Ndx calls has been kind for me lately. Been looking at dia but nothing this month.
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    Rookie Spread Questions at IB

    Bear call spreads seem profitable at this time.
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    Rookie Spread Questions at IB

    Just wondering about spreads on dia,ndx,xau index type products. At Ib one can do spread combo's on equities. Is this just not offered in index options? Or just not a feature at Ib? Do I just have to leg it? Thanks
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