rbartell- I'm sorry you had this happen, but I'm not sure from reading the ARCA erroneous trade policy that it says what you describe, I.e. That...
Fidelity offers this, but only with market orders. Haven't used it. https://scs.fidelity.com/webxpress/help/topics/learn_basket_trading.shtml...
Thanks for sharing all the details on this. I haven't hit this, but it's good to know about and be prepared.
If you don't want the rights, you can sell tomorrow and rebuy the common later, or you can hold the common and sell the rights once they start...
How much of a daily fee are we talking about, and roughly how big is the account?
Freedinner - you have a lot of good ideas, but your model has a single point of failure. How many times have some technical glitch shut down some...
If it's a big enough hole, you'd be worth something to an heiress as long as you stopped trading.
The old rules were low rates on long term gains only. The newer rules apply to both long and short term gains. Beware of gains accrued before...
I did 100. I think my preference was first for consistency (on a short term scale, small fluctuations), and then secondary factors were things...
If you were selling a long position (not selling short), the uptick rule shouldn't have applied anyway.
Retail people lose money and complain, media picks up sob stories about Evil Banks and their complex ETNs that are "designed to fail", and FINRA...
Your understanding is correct. IB's margin rates are much much lower than any of the retail brokerages, and they drop for higher margin...
You think they need our small time strategies when they can tap the phones of world leaders or eavesdrop on major merger negotiations?
The top ten earners for 2013 - where $25M is a rounding error.
When 6.6x isn't enough, its time to open your own brokerage. Then you can give yourself 100 to 1.
Haven't used it, but looks like you can customize it to take or not take, how big % of volume, etc....
Margin debt is way up lately. Previously that hasn't ended well....
Read the details from the paper, not the media summary: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?t=282362 The academics found numerous...
Not much has changed since 2009 when two high profile SEC lawyers were caught red handed trading against SEC policy:...
Taxes. Or did you want a list of all the things they get wasted on?
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