And a day later, Mary Schapiro resigns as chairman of the SEC: http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=365129...
No one was harmed by InTrade, unlike half a dozen defaulting futures brokerages, and this is the best the CFTC can find to investigate?
Yup, run your own brokerage and you can do those non-risk tests internally. As an individual, that's just one more roadblock in your already poor...
Can you trade it live with an amount of money you can afford to lose? If so, get started and see how the real market treats you.
Some bureaucrat that flunked Econ 101 decided that the government reserve gas should be given away for free?! They could just charge something...
Agree with Rationalize on this one. Subpenny issues are from broker internalization, not HFT. Also, if you ignored everything Nanex wrote on...
AON orders are basically executed by your broker at their discretion, they don't go on the order book in an obvious way.
Fidelity is pretty bad at having ETFs to short, although I haven't looked for these specific ones. They honestly have almost nothing on the short...
Yeah, Nanex is full of it, as usual, and just talking up hype and FUD since its good for their business... selling Fear. Think about it - how can...
Hope that's just a little attitude and not your daily PNL talking. I did research this to some extent and found that of IB, Fidelity and Schwab,...
Anyone know a US broker who supports trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange? http://www.jse.co.za/Home.aspx I'd settle for ADRs/GDRs...
What can they do when the management isn't in the US - send a sternly worded note? They didn't do much to these guys, who did outright fraud with...
I don't trade those, but ever since FINRA decided to protect us from ourselves, those no longer get useful additional leverage. Guess they'd...
I was referring to my present portfolio, which has ~40-50 equity positions, long and short, including big ones in some broad ETFs. In my...
6:1 sounds good, but in practice my long short stock and ETF portfolio starts hitting the IB risk limits a bit over 3:1. I wouldn't expect much...
It might be against some law for your broker firm to do this, but what's to stop some aspiring trader in the broker's IT department from trying to...
Anyone have any interest in Canadian debentures? I want to trade some of these, but IB says they aren't supported. They trade on TSE similar to...
I know IB isn't know for its friendly customer service or liquidation procedures, but I had a very good experience I thought I'd mention as a...
Thanks for the perspective. I'm certainly going to keep trading my own account and not change anything on that front. Still it's tempting to...
I've been thinking about trying to start my own fund after successfully trading on my own, but like others here I can't really get the math to...
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