This isn't out of the ordinary, even GM did it. What does it matter who gets the IPO shares, if the price and number are the same? I mean,...
I've hit this problem in equities and it's bad there too. If a stock gaps enough, even for just a dividend never mind serious news, you may be...
That strikes me as an exaggeration, or at least misleading(*). For example, a quick check shows that something like 1/4 of OTC stocks are above...
If you have negotiated lower commissions, say 1/3 off the regular rate, it will cut your assignment fee by the same % amount.
Anything that works! :)
Remember Medallion's fees were really high too, so their pre-fee return was nearly double that. As for beating 35%/year, well, I can do that on...
I haven't been impressed with Schwab's order execution, but I've got high standards.
That's their public fund, institutional equities, which is fairly mediocre, not the good higher frequency one. Medallion is the good one, but it...
Baron - I'm not sure when things changed, later today after my earlier post things changed. the updated version on my tablet (ipad) is much...
No change in the formatting from what I'm seeing. Right now I'd say between the controls on the left (which I use very rarely) and the ads on the...
On mobile/tablet devices, the present format with the left sidebar controls and the right sidebar ads squish the content into a small middle...
Would it be too much to ask to have a setting so we could view it the old way?
Fractional shares of stock have been around a long time, from the days of DRIPs. They don't trade on the exchanges, but there's precedent for...
For those who might actually care about the details (not OP), this stems from Direct Edge's "Hide Not Slide" order type prior to their acquisition...
If you read that press release, it's clear they've decided the outcome of the hearing well in advance. Regardless of the laws at the time, you're...
What am I not getting here? There's a seller for every buyer, so unless you're talking about people digging up more metal, the amount accumulated...
Maybe we have different problems Bob, but to be clear, immediately pulling an order ("spoofing") is different and in some ways more objectionable...
Even when the HFT guys try to provide the liquidity everyone claims is lacking, the critics make up some new term and redefine it to be illegal....
Of course it's a witch hunt and cooperation is not optional when it comes to Attorney General Eric "Shakedown" Schneiderman or the SEC. These...
I recall someone here mentioning that it was possible to have a relationship with the prop side of IB rather than the retail side, and that for...
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