The futures arbitration agreement is optional. In one of the bold lines it says "The CFTC requires...that your consent to this arbitration...
Makes perfect sense, thanks! I was aware of the margin/funding issues with long-short strategies in cash markets, but it hadn't clicked that SPAN...
Yep, in addition to SSF exchanges, AQS's stock lending platform also couldn't overcome the industry resistance:...
The main draw was supposed to be that you could finance at market rates. You would could in theory get much better than the brokers' margin...
Unlike other futures, SSFs are taxed similar to stocks. From IRS Pub 550:
BABA is a penny pilot symbol, so the rebate from Emerald is 0.43, not 0.85. I'm guessing you sold a single contract, so you pay IB's minimum...
Could be. The penny pilot program are the few hundred symbols with the highest option volume. There's a list of them here.
Not necessarily. Have a look at Emerald's fees. If you're adding liquidity in a non-penny pilot symbol, you get a rebate of $0.85. IB charges...
For your orders that used to get rebates, which exchanges were they executed on? Then check the current exchange rebates listed here and also...
I'm not sure about that, but I'd be interested to hear any experiences that contradict me. The specific wording is: You're not registering as a...
I have a PhD in molecular biology. You're thinking of retroviruses like HIV that integrate into the host genome and can lie dormant....
That's bizarre, but glad you've got a workaround. FWIW, the line below is the API log entry for my order that worked directly. The only...
It worked for me. Can you set order.transmit = False and check in TWS if anything looks off? Can it then be submitted through TWS? Another...
To follow up on this, it seems the main points he's making are: 1) Weak binding to multiple receptors signify multiple coming waves as the virus...
It's an active area. Some tools are PolyPhen and SNPeffect. However, everything I'm aware of is focused on determining if a mutation is likely...
I can't say I'm terribly well versed on the conspiracy theories, but from I gather they fall into two classes: 1) The virus escaped from a...
I don't have any particular expertise here, but the age of the population seems plausible. This article seems to cover it pretty well:...
That's the scenario I had in mind when I said their conclusions were a bit too strong. Lab-directed evolution does exist, but it's quite unlikely...
Here's a recent analysis showing the virus likely arose through evolution. If it's paywalled, there's also a good less technical summary here. I...
In the terms of the Stock Yield Enhancement program, they describe it as standard practice across the industry: I never did this as a serious...
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