IB's IRA "margin" account is not a real margin account as there is no real margin borrowing takes place. What IB has is the "same day...
Well... it is one of the slowest Autometed Trading systems even for the simple strategies that do not involve any Moving Average calculations....
OldTrader, You can also call the involvong brokers (e.g., Ameritrade, IB, etc.) to find out more information for your reference. Try to get the...
Option Trader, OXPS, TOS, Ameritrade, Izone, etc. are enforcing the rules properly. It is actually IB who is putting the extra limitation. What...
Suppose your account used to be $25k or more and in addition a PDT account. If it goes below $25k, you can still be allowed to place a...
At Ameritrade, if you have $100k cash at the beginning of the day, you will have DTBP available $100k x 4=$400k. You can buy/sell $400k (DTBP)...
Can you post the link for the deal?
You may want to check your Audit Trails to start with--though the Audit Trails do not capture all the transactions correctly because of its bugs....
OptionTrader, Audit Trail has its bugs too. I have seen an order sitting in the main screen as well as in the pending page; but audit trail does...
Rollover, Traditional IRA, Traditional-401k are alike; Roth-401k, Roth IRA are similar. Savings Incentive Match PLan for Employees may be close to...
Trying to move unlike IRAs at IB at any means would not be a good idea. You cannot convert IRAs at IB.
Among the brokers who offer per-trade pricing like Scottrade, Just2trade and AmeritradeIzone are the better ones.
JackR, it is not related to "unbundled" versus "bundled" commission structure selection.
TedZhang8, for those accounts from which IB took deposit off for the Security Token, they are supposed to return the deposit once the token is...
On the bright side, you will probably find every version has been slightly better than the previous one. It is still not April 15th yet. I...
IB CSR has told me that login to individual account through webtrader is not possible if you have a Friends & Family account.
Among OQ, both NTs (NinjaTrader, NeoTicker) andCT (Cool-Trade) that can work with intraday data, which one does work fastest?
Right now, I do not even have quotes for stocks. It was on and off for a while.
Only once did I ever have after hours liquidation at IB. That was due to IB's error. It took me some time to have IB realize or admit that...
Which of them (NT, OQ,CT) can run more than one long strategy at the same time?
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