Or maybe the DTCC handles splitting up coupons so there's no additional counterparty risk arising from the chain of custody. Does anybody know?
Wilson was a terrible president and a terrible human being, but the rot set in way before that.
I once bought some OTM long dated calls on SVXY. Based on historical stats it was approximately a 50% chance to ~4x my investment and 50% to lose...
"In 2008, the IRS issued Revenue Ruling 2008-5, in which it addressed the question of whether the wash-sale rules apply to IRAs. In this ruling,...
or the test has an error rate and a few people are immunocompromised
Oops, it's probably just some broker ripping off their client with a 3% markup
If you lose the coin flip you end up with more money in the taxable and less money in the roth. So there's no EV to be gained by this.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/accrued-interest-why-do-i-pay-when-i-buy-bond/ This seems like a bad custom because it creates a lot of...
"The gains offset Ruffer's losses elsewhere, limiting the decline in its flagship fund to 0.8% last quarter." lol. Sometimes the -EV gamblers...
TWS
Every time NBBO changes there's a new line in the Time & Sales page, even if no actual trade occurred. When the servers are busy intraday it...
All the charts on tws are also crap, so I use YCharts / Yahoo Finance / BigCharts / BarChart For visualizing option spreads just do it in your head.
Is there a way to filter it to only show sales so I don't have to scroll through 20 pages of nonsense bids to find the sales?
probably have to switch from TWS to the API
(and pegged-to-primary won't work because I want a positive offset with rollback on stuff that isn't traded on ISLAND)
I trade with dozens of liquidity-adding limit orders pending simultaneously and it gets tedious to update all of them manually. 1. I want a...
what moron is buying these oxy bonds 3% over the NBBO?
Here's a specific example of IB's absurd margin requirements on options. I wanna buy $1k of deep OTM strangles and the margin requirement is over...
How about some OTM calls on Silver in December.
I trade a bit of everything. Long/short equity, options, bonds, commodities, ssfs. I like that IB has all this in one place. But there are a...
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