It's sad that instead of helping people you just want to insult and bully them. Yes, I'm a beginner. I've read a couple of books. I'm already...
Well yes, the breakout failed obviously. That's actually the point of my question. There was a big price spike on big volume, followed by a big...
I'm not ignoring it. I just try to understand one point at a time. Please be patient with me. So you're saying it is a bullish pennant according...
Maybe I'm completely off here. Can you help me understand? I'm quite new to technical analysis. So I browsed through my watchlist trying to spot...
I recently traded two stocks that showed nice patterns, but were behaving really strange shortly after their breakouts. The first one is BSY:...
It actually didn't come to my mind, that it could be a bug. I'm always using the stable verions of the TWS. So I assumed I did something wrong....
I'm using the strategy builder to set up a bear call spread on EUR futures options. I can set up the trade without problems, but when I want to...
I asked IB for advice and this is what they answered: "The ~17k margin requirement is for the entire account. Your equities carry a margin...
All right, now this is really strange. I just found a Margin Report in the reports section in the account management. Turns out not just my short...
Even in a cash account IB displays the initial and maintenance margin for the short puts. But you defenitely need the cash in the account. It'...
Just this week I switched my account from an ordinary cash account to a Reg T Margin account. Until now the current margin was about as high as...
I think I solved the mystery. After I took a look at the covered call option leading to the sell of the shares, I noticed the premium is $65,...
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