The SIPC limit is $500,000 last I heard. TD Ameritrade has separate insurance for up to $900,000 of cash. Its higher than that if its in...
Fidelity is literally killing me on commissions. It was around $1000 to buy 77,000 shares of a $3 stock (Amex listed) with their Active Trader...
FOX can't even talk about business in their "business block", how do they expect to run a channel? Last weekend every stupid show had a segment...
I do, but I have a big account. When I started doing it full time I had a lot more that $100k. I think I made 25 or 30% the 1st year, and I...
Just because an idea came fro a message board, that doesn't make it wrong. I'm very thankful (7 digits before tax) for the posters that:...
If you are capable of coming up with systems worth using, you will make a lot more using it for yourself than by working for some outfit that has...
I tend to agree with Luke above. Keep your job, take your spare time and learn to trade and make money consistently while you save enough...
About $450,000 or $500,000 for 1 day. $1,500,000 for any one week. Those are days that tested everything I knew soul and taught lessons...
If they were simply net short, why would the fund show in the qtrly report a 300,000 long position and then a 425,000 short position as a...
So basically, you could do something like this if you wanted to as long as you didn't tell anyone that you were shorting it with the intent of...
Don, Do you happen to know where to find out if this would constitute stock manipulation or not? Does the SEC need to prove intent to drive the...
I'm not sure if that comment was directed at me or who? I'm what you guys seem to call a position trader or investor. I do it for a living and...
The annual Central Bank gold sales numbers close out in Sept don't they? I bet we have very little Central Bank selling from here on. I think...
I did make a filing with the SEC enforcement folks questioning whether or not its a legal tactic. Let's put it this way. Their 425k short is...
zdreg, No offense, but did you miss the word "massive" there? Take "massive" and multiply by the 65 cents its up since then. Short...
I've been trading the particular stock in large qtys for 15 months now, without any big trouble, so I pretty much know how the specialist will...
There are about 1 million shares worth of calls outstanding fo Aug. Keep in mind I only know how many shares the particular funds were long and...
Freehouse correctly guessed the result. I'm a turnaround specialist that looks for things that have been overly beaten down. Sometimes the...
Ok, thanks. Its on the Amex and TSE. The specialist won't risk that kind of qty I don't think.
Ok, thanks for the suggestions. Your answers would be valid if I wasn't long, and if it wasn't dramatically undervalued. I'm up about 60...
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