It is not illegal in the U.S. per se, I would challenge those stating so to provide references to the law or case law. It could be illegal if...
Thank you achilles28, I couldn't have made my point about willful ignorance more clearly than you just did. I just listed a sample of the many...
Sorry to pick on you Scataphagos, but I want to expose the distinct lack of rigor of those who are for ignoring climate change and your comment is...
That cuts both ways. Real time means that they can change the margin requirements on you with no notice in real time and your portfolio that was...
The delta between the buyout offer and the current trading price represents the market's consensus of the probability of the deal falling through....
Then thank you for pointing out the obvious, yes brokers have computers and its technically possible to scan for accounts that consistently win....
You clearly missed the point of my post. You basically have two choices here. Live a life of paranoia sure that someone is going to steal your...
In case you didn't know, the Daily Mail is just slightly less sensationalistic than those tabloids you see in the supermarket checkout in the...
I think the OP is afraid that his broker, ie. IB or TOS, for example, is going to figure out his strategy and steal it. If that is the case, stop...
Noncompetes are unenforceable in CA and severely restricted in a number of other states like VA, you may consider moving to one of these places....
You're just ranting. This is a place people come to exchange ideas on how to make money in markets. If you think the markets are rigged, come up...
Its not uncommon for people to vaguely remember an old rule and not take the time to research the fact that its changed. You're unfortunately...
IB's customer service is really to the point of being criminally bad. One would think that the answers a broker provides to their customers at a...
While we're having fun with this, the market cap of the S&P 500 is $19.5T, or if we want to be dramatic about it, $19,500,000,000,000.
Its galling when someone doesn't understand the considerable difference between sovereign debt and consumer or commercial debt and treats them as...
Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I'm stumped on how you would offset a binary position with a vanilla of a different maturity. For example, I'm...
Your max loss on the ES short butterfly occurs at 1990 and is 32.4 (40-7.6) or $3240 on a single ES butterfly. Your gain from the 5 Nadex at that...
Separate names with a comma.