Recent Content by Golden Snake

  1. Recommendation for a Futures Options broker?

    after 25+ years of using IB and Schwab, this past year I moved some money from IB to AMP and from Schwab to Think or swim. So far I am very happy...
    Post by: Golden Snake, May 7, 2022 in forum: Retail Brokers

  2. IB - "Order Transmitted, Not Yet Acknowledged"

    No. USA.
    Post by: Golden Snake, Mar 18, 2021 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. IB - "Order Transmitted, Not Yet Acknowledged"

    I have used IB for ~20 years and I think that I'm one of the few on ET that thinks that they are actually pretty good. That being said, I got the...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Mar 18, 2021 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. How many USA based forex traders on this board ?

    IB does still offer FX in the USA. However as an SEC firm they have onerous requirements. I think that it is $10mm in your account unless you...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Mar 17, 2021 in forum: Forex

  5. What do ETFs typically do with the proceeds of lending the underlying securities?

    it varies by provider. Years ago iShares kept it all but vanguard credited it all to the funds. So to be competitive ishares started to share...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Feb 3, 2021 in forum: ETFs

  6. Trading with the Market Makers

    What he says. As someone who spent a big chunk of my career as a market maker, I can say that most of what is said in these videos is nonsense....
    Post by: Golden Snake, Nov 23, 2020 in forum: Forex

  7. Trying to get mortgage loan as full-time trader

    You can get a no income verification loan. Also, called a stated income loan. I've done it and my wife is a realtor with countless clients that...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Nov 12, 2020 in forum: Professional Trading

  8. Basic ETF question

    The ETF trades based upon the ability to do an arbitrage against the underlying basket, rather than what volume has already occurred in it. It...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Oct 25, 2020 in forum: ETFs

  9. IB introduces "Key Account Services Program"

    maybe you were just added today. its been around a while. I just checked my old emails. I can't find where I was first added but there was one...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Oct 8, 2020 in forum: Retail Brokers

  10. IB introduces "Key Account Services Program"

    I have it. Its just a couple of dedicated kids with a direct line for them. I've never called them but the one time that I emailed them with a...
    Post by: Golden Snake, Oct 8, 2020 in forum: Retail Brokers