XLF is the most widely used financial ETF, by far. It includes major banks, midsize banks, insurance companies and brokerage firms. If you want...
Google "Estimated tax safe harbor" Example, from Forbes mag: Estimated tax safe harbor rule. If your 2016 adjusted gross income (AGI) was more...
It doesn't matter what language is being used because TWS wasn't the problem. The problem was on the IB server side, not the client side....
While the Republican moves, especially the corporate tax cuts and elimination of regulations has helped, I am surprised that the US stock market...
I use IB's Gateway and their API to place orders, and on Friday both were working fine. Note that I use NxCore for my realtime price data, not...
I believe that having a backup brokerage account is more trouble than it is worth for all but the largest traders. More account management work,...
I am interested in why IB started charing you pro fees for market data. Did you check the professional boxes in the user profile? Or are you...
Sorry but you lose both ways. Health insurance that you pay for out of your own pocket is not deductible, unless you have your own LLC or C-Corp....
As someone pointed out, the new tax law takes affect in 2018. What you need to worry about right now is what moves you can make next week to...
Ballsy move. No one knows in which direction the price of Bitcoin will go, but if the price keeps falling, panic will set in. Those neophytes...
If you want to short someone, short the exchanges. I have read that they make more from colocation fees than they do from trading fees. On the...
My IB Gateway, which I started yesterday morning, is running fine. I can see realtime Futures quote.
Have you selected their Tiered Commission option? If not, and you meet their minimum transaction count requirements, you could cut your...
The problem is that when bitcoin collapses, it may take the other markets down with it.
That is about as ignorant a comment as I have ever seen on EliteTrader. First Mexico is in North America, not Central America. Second, I have...
Not sure about apartment costs. I stayed at Hotel Don Carlos, a small boutique hotel. Highly recommended.
You did not list any time zone limitations east of central time, so I will assume that you want to stay roughly close to the USA east coast time...
Yes ETF bid/ask prices can drift from the NAV, but usually less than 0.2%. On very thinly traded ETFs, it is possible for the difference to be...
"As part of this revamped experience, we’re retiring a few features of the original Google Finance, including the portfolio, the ability to...
A backdoor way to play GBTC is via the ARKW ETF. GBTC represents 7% of ARKW. ARKW is up 85% this year vs 35% for its closest competitor, the FDN...
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