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  1. Interactive Brokers order limit???

    I just entered 20 buy orders on my screen and they went through just fine. Must be a setting you can change.
    Post by: western, Dec 12, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  2. Evidence that Re-hyopthecation caused MF Global failure

    Or maybe because MF knew it could never get funds out of canadian custodial accounts because of firmer regulations. Bottom line, financial laws...
    Post by: western, Dec 12, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  3. Evidence that Re-hyopthecation caused MF Global failure

    Another article about how re-hypo caused MF failure. Interesting to note that canadian customers of MF have already gotten all their money...
    Post by: western, Dec 12, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  4. Best capitalized brokers which does not hypothecate?

    Another article about how rehypothecation caused the MF global failure. It notes that MF global canada customers got ALL their money back...
    Post by: western, Dec 12, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  5. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    I am thankful that you and IB-AN have made in depth replies to the issues at hand and they have alleviated some of my concerns. But you and...
    Post by: western, Dec 10, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  6. Evidence that Re-hyopthecation caused MF Global failure

    Who knows. If all the money was there as of Thursday, but suddenly gone Friday, you'd think it would be a simple matter of retracing whatever...
    Post by: western, Dec 9, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  7. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    Here is a key question. Lets say that a broker does re-hypo 140% of the assets and then for some reason the broker immediately declares...
    Post by: western, Dec 9, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  8. Evidence that Re-hyopthecation caused MF Global failure

    If my hypothesis above is true, it has very disturbing implications for the securities industry. It means that the missing customer funds at MF...
    Post by: western, Dec 9, 2011 in forum: Wall St. News

  9. Evidence that Re-hyopthecation caused MF Global failure

    I found some very interesting data today. In this FT times article, the head of the CME states that auditors visited MF Global on Thursday,...
    Thread by: western, Dec 9, 2011, 24 replies, in forum: Wall St. News

  10. Selling lots of trading and investing books on EBay starting from 0.01$

    Trading is a profession where buying and reading the wrong book will likely cost someone alot of money so I would argue that the vast majority of...
    Post by: western, Dec 8, 2011 in forum: Trading

  11. CFTC casually mentions other futures firms probably close to failing

    Here is a nice tidbit from a businessweek article today. "Asked whether the CFTC thought other futures merchants like MF Global could also...
    Thread by: western, Dec 8, 2011, 5 replies, in forum: Wall St. News

  12. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    Some of us full time traders have balances that far exceed SIPC limits. Furthermore, the SIPC has operated in a manner that gives me no...
    Post by: western, Dec 8, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  13. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    Thanks for replying Def. The margin lending you described appears to be standard hypothecation, which I am totally ok with. But it is...
    Post by: western, Dec 8, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  14. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    SIPC is NOT federal insurance. In any case it only covers 100k in cash and many full time traders have way more than that at IB.
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  15. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    IB has their timber hill market making division. Perhaps the $14.5bil in re-hypothecates is what IB uses to provide trading capital for that division.
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  16. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    I would like an IB rep on this board to explain exactly what it means that IB re-hypothecates $14.5 billion of customer funds, and what would...
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  17. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    Page three of the agreement: "Interactive or its Affiliates may deposit collateral, securities and/or other Customer property with third...
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  18. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    I think the only real way to ensure your funds is to either: 1. Use a broker that is part of a bank deemed too big to fail, Like Goldman, Bank...
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  19. InteractiveBrokers "hyper-hypothecates" $14.5b of Customer Funds?

    Thanks for bringing this up. I was unaware prior to now that re-hypothecation even existed.
    Post by: western, Dec 7, 2011 in forum: Retail Brokers

  20. My Story of Trading Failure

    Could your blog have been any more generic? If you expect any sort of constructive feedback you need to provide something worth reading.
    Post by: western, Nov 14, 2011 in forum: Psychology
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