You should always have a backup broker in case there is any problem with your main broker.
No, the worst case scenario is that IB agrees with you that the phantom position did not exist and takes the phantom position out of your account....
Consider the case where the position was placed into the wrong account or by some other mechanism is not a real position. If the position does...
Theoretically it can be infinite if the earnings are zero, or the P/E can be negative if the company is losing money.
The broker wants to build up your confidence so that you trade with real money and the broker can collect commissions.
This is just TDAmeritrade's standard messages indicating that when you place the next trade your account will have the daytrader flag set. Then...
Just be sure that your wife does not find out.
When I read the thread title, I thought that he was saying that he drinks a case of Fat Tire before he starts trading and that is his edge.
This link may help. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105295
The larger mine is equivalent to about 30 football fields, and the smaller one is the size of about 2 football fields. You must live on a ranch...
With Interactive Brokers this is straightforward to do. You can place Market on Close and Market on Open orders and set the Good After Time...
These indexed CD's are issued by Bankers Financial Services Corp. http://www.indexedcd.com/bankers/ The participating banks are here...
This may be the article. http://seekingalpha.com/article/25208-etfs-the-problem-of-large-orders-and-price-improvement See the fourth...
The business plan of the bucket shops is to get a steady stream of new customers and take all the money from their customers (suckers). If you...
http://www.thestreet.com/p/_tscs/dps/cc/20070904/columnistconversation1.html#entryId10377694 Seth Tobias died yesterday in an accident in Palm...
If you are worried about closing positions before the market close, then entering orders 5 minutes before market close should be sufficient. Then...
Assuming that you sold a stock short for about $36k, then IB does not pay you the short interest on amounts less than $100k and you won't earn...
Has blackjack been listening to too much Donald Rumsfeld? Yes, I think he has.
You can easily see that the round-trip slippage is $0.03. Imagine buying at the ask and immediately selling at the bid. You are immediately...
Vanguard started its Index 500 fund in 1975.
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