If you have 100000 cash in your account, then no loan - debit. If you have 100000 in securities in your margin account, you can borrow against that
I think you had a pretty good run and may thank those charging you higher margin in the year to come.
I'm guessing all of these have to do with price movement. Personally I think it is BS for exchanges and regulators to put the onus on brokers...
LOL- true. My rule of thumb: If I'm day trading, I don't convert. No reason, if profits/losses reach a threshold, I convert back. If I hold...
couldn't you line up the order, right click and check margin impact?
Their site does not state anything about HK stock. If you are referring to US stock, they charge $7 for HK residents but you also know they are...
Bullshit. 5/10,000,000 = .0000005 = .0005 bps Tell me who please.
Is ScottTrade regulated by the SFC - think not. You should go there and let them sell your order flow. Good luck.
Agere - the exchanges have a monopoly on data and are abusing and milking the fees until there is nothing left. Class action is the only way to...
Blah Blah Blah. Go put your money with another HK broker if you want greater protection - oh wait, never mind, they all have the same regulator...
Muddy Waters certainly did. But then again call me a skeptic but I wouldn't put my cash in a firm that triples in price w/o any substantive...
Well, a bit of a finance degree, a bit of accounting knowledge, ability to read and learn about the people who have the biggest stakes in their...
You kidding me, the writing was on the wall if you followed the debt markets. Besides the entire street knew they were into CDS and CDOs in a big...
I don't know if the first movers have it on lock down. It's an arms race and some of the traditional HFTs are having a tough go of it while others...
You don't seem to be missing anything. I don't use web trader but I think the only difference is that via the TWS you get some additional options...
Clear balance sheet vs a portfolio of off balance sheet or hard to mark to mark items are again apples to oranges. Take an Econ 101 class.
and they had tons of off balance sheet items. IB doesn't. apples and oranges.
You say IB provides ZERO protection but a: when you invest in US stocks, aren't your stocks at a US custodian - in this case IBLLC b: you seem to...
Your commission may have dropped but you are comparing apples to oranges as execution could differ by only seeking best rebate
https://financefeeds.com/trading-technologies-appeals-legal-decision-patent-infringement-case-interactive-brokers-tradestation/ A good ruling...
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