IB customer representative told me that absolutely no shortings are allowed in IB's IRA accounts.
def, I wanted to make a relatively simple trade trigger with IB's conditional order mechanism and the IB's customer services could not tell me...
Staying within the spirit of SEC regulations, different brokers have been handling the issue (i.e., when to release the buying power from previous...
IBsoft, Is there any list of known bugs anywhere for the users to see? It will help the users not to run into the same bugs that IB is already...
Some companies (specially the big ones) do let their employees invest their 401k money with a specific broker. You might want to ask your 401k...
Do CyberTrader charge a minimum of $1 fee for each partial fills (on the same day) of a single order?
Scottrade would be a bad idea. The good thing about having Scottrade as your first broker is that you are going to like most other brokers when...
Is the broker's stock research capability important for you? How often do you plan to trade? Do you plan to short a lot? How important is...
Usually bigger firms tend to have better available short lists. Ameritrade (not Izone) is lot better than Scottrade specially if you use their...
But don't forget that the most per-share brokers have a minimum commission which is typically $1. Therefore, you'll have to pay at least that...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from Dr._Bob: I would like to see the OPEN price in...
IRS' capital gain rules have changed many times in the past years. I am not sure a April 2000's publication from a non-authority will still apply...
TS software charge is $0 for moderately active traders (e.g., 25000 shares/month or 100 contract/month, etc.). A few other things one should...
Toonces, When you are ready, let us know how you liked/disliked ProTrading Sytems & TopGun Software. Do they live upto their ads? For...
Specialists can see the stop orders. Market makers should be aware of the order flows (including stop orders) of their books. Market makers also...
Market makers generally can see your stop orders. For example, if a lot of other people also have tight stops regarding the vicinity of your...
Given the fact the customer services people of IB are often cold, rude and impolite, I cannot blame a poster for posting their IB down issues...
There was a link from inverstorsguide.com saying: ________________________________ * Your Discount Broker - Day traders can pay $30 to...
Is it $0.0004 per share or $0.004 per share?
E-trade is not necessarily the worst broker--perhaps one of the top worst brokers. Their system problem and calculation error issues are...
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