Other brokers getting hit hard... AMTD down 7.7%, E-Trade down 5%
You must be out of it because they've been making a profit for many many years. Even at their IPO in 2013, they had billions of cash in the bank...
No, the cost driver of healthcare is the US government. Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few services. When the government...
Other alternatives: money market mutual funds, bond ETFs like SHV & BIL. With portfolio margin, their margin requirements are only slightly...
It's more correct to say "The market has not suffered an annual loss in the year after a mid-term election". The market can still suffer huge...
VIX rarely reaches 40, and when it does, it doesn't stay there long. You basically bought a lottery ticket that has low probability of payout....
The article is from Zerohedge -- they're close cousins
If you're gonna look for similarities, then you need to also point out the differences. The 10 year / 3 month yield curve inverted in July 2000...
Free trades, but at what price? Poor fills? Nothing is free
Those who started their careers in the last several years had it easiest of all. Record-low interest rates combined with a growing economy and...
With options selling, the only way to assure you won't blow out is to sell with little or no leverage. An SPX put with a strike of 2000 has an...
How come the thinnest countries in the world eat carb-based diets with little meat? Sample size-- 2 billion people. The typical fat American...
It's normal in many countries to bribe police. Just as here in the US, when you give money to a politician, it's called a political contribution...
The two have nothing to do with each other. A naked put is an uncovered put. To cover a put, you'd short the underlying. A naked put means you...
The Y axes were arbitrarily chosen to make the graphs look identical. The X axis makes no sense. In a nutshell, these comparison graphs are...
You're all looking at out-of-date info. IB has a deposit sweep program where they spread your cash across 10 banks for FDIC insurance of $2.5MM....
Nakeds aren't dangerous unless you make them that way, which many people do. I've sold them for 20 years and have gone through Black Swans far...
You weren't paying attention. Groceries stores have monitors for the cashiers. If you watch the monitor, you will see the items being rung up....
There's a change they can make right now: Fat people should be disqualified. Why would someone who's 50+ lbs overweight claim they need more...
He didn't say he traded $50k to $2.5M. He said he traded $50k + $1.5M to $4M... big difference.
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