I wonder how much these guys lost in account blowups. These new rules are effectively 1000%+ margin requirements on all short positions. Talk...
If I’m going to “park cash”, I don’t want a 30% loss while I do it like last spring. https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=PFF&ty=c&ta=0&p=w
Yes, assuming your holdings are mostly PM-eligible (which depends on the broker, but mostly liquid ETFs and large cap stocks should be), you would...
I haven’t checked, but Schwab claimed to stop allowing opening orders as of Feb’21...
https://www.otcmarkets.com/research/stock-screener/api/downloadCSV?ce=true&sortField=volume&sortOrder=desc
It means you have to get some special number from the SEC and give it to all your brokers. If you’re not swinging that many shares the next year...
Think of it as a margin call on the brokerage firm, not the individuals. The clearing requirements for Robinhood brokerage for settling up the...
IBs execution for otc stocks is not very good. The market makers don’t want order flow from smart IB customers and they strong armed IB to make...
No charges, no surprise. https://nypost.com/2021/01/19/doj-insider-trading-probe-into-sen-richard-burr-ends-with-no-charges/
According to who? Bass and he’s big short, talking his book?...
It’s also worth noting that the marginal margin requirement can be different than the average margin. For example, if you hold $100k and the...
Otc isn’t marginable regardless of where you own it. Taxes will be the same likewise. I’d pick whichever broker you think you can get the best,...
WSJ is worth it at least. ZH is ok for general timely news coverage on some issues you might not see in the mainstream, but you have to mentally...
Probly around 1pm. Not quick to get these going.
There’s a reason many active traders choose IB, even when all the retail shops have made trading “free”. Because selling your order flow and bad...
They’re back up now for me, although I couldn’t connect an hour or so ago.
To be a bit more precise, you couldn’t log in for most of today. Open orders and automatic triggers like profit taker orders triggered fine. I...
Delete your local tws.xml before starting up and then when it asks if you want to restore from a prior day, decline.
Apparently Nasdaq thinks the diversity hires on the boards won’t be smart enough to get away with insider trading and cites this as an advantage...
I think you also get more of those deep book windows available simultaneously in TWS for having more assets, lots of trading in the prior month,...
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