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Oh Snap! looks like DNDN pulled a big one up the shorties ... Even the vaseline sold at costco might not be enough on this one ...

Is anyone here using TurboTax to report their futures trades? If so, what are you doing? Are you just putting in the final PnL as part of Section 1256 contracts and not reporting the indiviudal contracts?

If you dont mind me asking, which broker are you using? IB has a order cancellation fee structure and do be a market maker, you orders will need to be acknowledged in less than 50ms ... Thanks

As someone who works at these places, trust me the h1b thing is a myth. For one the H1b visas run out too quickly and then you have way too many rules. The problem is finding people qualified candidates. We are lowered the bar significantly but yet cant find people.

Technology, science and engineering. Contrary to popular belief, this country is not producing enough graduates in these fields. You can easily get a 80k+ starting job at an of the big tech firms straight out of college.

Folks, please do yourself and everyone else a favor by going to the following SEC link and asking the SEC to investigate this if you believe what happened today was wrong in UAUA. http://sec.gov/complaint/selectconduct.shtml

Has anyone been ever able to get streaming Time and Sale working in IB? Everytime I open the time and sale dialog, I get a snapshot in a specific timeframe and it never continues to update. I am sure I am missing something here. Anyone got this working yet? If so, what did you do. Thanks

Bunning Part 2: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=bd1f5a85-8dee-4fd0-ba1f-c96e47c54906&fg=rss&from=34

Noobish question - Where would IB rank up? Thanks

Watch the ISM numbers tomorrow morning. Anything above 50 is good-decent and anything above 54 will just set off a wildfire ... Thoughts?

You know I hear a lot of folks saying that they use MA and some saying they dont use MA since they lag. For the folks that use MA - 1min-5 min bars are extremely noisy. What kind of timeframes do you use? For the folks that dont use MA - What kind of a crossever system do you use (If any...

Wont touch RIMM with a 20feet pole here. They missed the EPS and Rev targets both. More importantly, next Q Rev is above street estimates but EPS is below street. Can some one say margin compression? Is AAPL starting to get to them? Man the next Q was gonna be the one where they could...

Actually I wanna elect Mark to Market and do this as a proper business. Still think its worth it by ones self?

Anyone know of a good accountant in WA (Washington) state for the formation of a trading LLC? Thanks!

Interesting ... lot of pessimism around the airlines ... anyways its on a swing trade on crude so will get out before the weekend... Lets see what the UAUA-LCC talks tonight bring!

AMR and LCC and others ...

Man this sucks ... I closed my position on friday. Got out of the Call spread at .8 and the put spread at .6 ... Oh well made a little more money than I would have than the worst case scenario trade that just occured ...

IB:8.5 Anvil: 7 Genesis: 8 Lightspeed:6

A lot of the reasoning around this trade is around these factors. If YHOO beats the numbers tommorow, it should easily go upto 30's consider the perception on the street. If Microsoft does decide to follow, YHOO will trade around 31-32 a share if they raise the bid upto 34. If for some...

Why?