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I have heard and read a lot of positive reviews on Sierra Charting. I am mainly looking for tick by tick real time data as well as back testing with the same data. Any experience or ideas with other providers?

Robert: Are you still with Suretrade.com???? On the bottom of their website on the home page it clearly states the following: "Swiss America Securities, Ltd (SureTrader) does not service accounts for U.S. citizens, U.S. residents or U.S. corporations. Swiss America Securities, Ltd does...

For Bill Ackman's thesis to ultimately play out, meaning the company goes bankrupt, the FTC has to say that Herbal Life is a pyramid scheme. If that happens Herbal Life goes poof. I think there is only a small chance of this happening. Regarding the January buys for nutritional drinks, I doubt...

I would also assume that unhedged positions have an additional haircut fee as mentioned by Don. http://www.stocktrading.com/Since%20You%20Asked%20-%20November%202007.htm

Thanks for the clarification.

They are from a previous years.

So basically, if I do not have professional trading status with the IRS regarding the retail account those losses can not be used against the K-1 income even if they are ordinary losses.

Just a quick question on taxes and offsetting losses vs. gains. Example: Let's say I have 100,000 in K-1 income from a prop firm and have 25,000 in carryover losses from a retail trading account. Question: Can I offset the 25,000 in losses against the 100,000 in K-1 income? So I...

Anyone follow FTNT? The volume was huge today and it was not part of the Russell Re-Balancing. I've checked around, but haven't found any news. Anyone have any insight?

Birdman, checkout this weeks cover story on www.Barrons.com

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/04a62734-849d-11e0-afcb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1N2A9osaY

Right around 8pm Oracle traded up .77 on 2 lots of 259K shares. Is this someone who just wanted to get in at all costs before the open? Or is this some type of possible trading error? Just wanted to hear some thoughts.

As most traders know this Friday is when Russell will rebalance their indexes. http://www.russell.com/indexes/membership/Reconstitution/default.asp My question: Does Russell make the additions/deletions ONLY at the end of the day on Friday June 26th or do they dollar cost average into the...

thanks for the info.

Anyone here trade from the Boca office? Just wondering what the the office is like. Such as number of traders, etc. Thanks, trader29

here you go Monday, January 12, 2009 BARRON'S ETF QUARTERLY One-Day Wonders By TOM EIDELMAN Leveraged ETFs' numbers don't always add up. SUPPOSE YOU HAD PREDICTED -- correctly, as it turned out -- that the Chinese economy would slow following last summer's...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a27NRFczgoIo&refer=home

I just received an email back from citi. This is their response. For Publicly Issued Straight and Convertible Preferred Stock and Trust Preferred Securities, the exchange price will be $3.25/share at a premium to market. Because these shares are trading at a significant discount to their...

What does it mean that the new par value is 3.25? What is the calculation one uses to figure out the value of c.i? Thanks, trader29

http://www.rallycongress.com/no2tradertax/1536/tell-congres-to-block-trader-tax/