Since I’m bullish on COIN and BTC right now I like to sell the weekly 430 puts. If they are assigned that’s going to put you long the stock at...
Exactly! Alof of traders here just have not read the rules!
The time is irrelevant. If it were a question of being right at the exercise price that would be where IB would come in. But in this case the...
If the stock is above your exercised price the exchange will exercise automatically.
I wouldn't get too confused as to whose cash is what. See my example below.
If the price drops your equity increases, so you could potentially withdraw down to maintenance requirement. In my opinion that wouldn't be too...
Robert: Using your scenario of starting with $100K cash, shorting $100K AAPL would only require $50K initial margin. Therefore, you could...
Good advice. Personally, I had a loan at 3 1/4 %, and decided to pay it off because I couldn’t get a high enough rate on my funds. I’m about at...
I don’t like the bank stocks here, either technically or fundamentally, big or small. I just don’t think any of that has an anything to do with...
I bought my first house back in the early 1980s. I put 20% down and got a conventional loan at 11.75%. I thought I screwed the bank! The rates...
I gather your strategies, both mean reversion and chart patterns, are very short term such as day trades.
First, you can't participate at an auction at IB. Second, they don't have an inventory either. They act as an agent. They charge $5 as far as I...
If I were you I'd use Interactive Brokers for some or all of you money. We went through this back in 2008. At the time some futures brokers went...
I think you wrote a very compelling piece. What I wanted to say is that everyone can't be a day trader. In fact, the people that make all the...
Evidently you aren't familiar with the Velocity Futures-Sentinel Group fiasco from 2007. I'd suggest you, and anyone interested read up on it....
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