From what I gather, the most dangerous portfolio would be one that is concentrated, illiquid and highly leveraged with low margin cushion. Those...
I used to be able to use MLDownloader to download Yahoo end-of-day quotes free of charge daily. Now, I am no longer able to. Luckily, there is...
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I am a happy customer of Interactive Brokers. I have even started using margin in my portfolio with IBKR recently. IBKR has an auto-liquidation...
For those who want to learn from attending trading courses, do a favour to yourself first. Ask yourself this question. What can you learn from...
Interactive Brokers provides a useful function for risk management. It can generate a VaR report under Account Management using historical method...
The stamp fee is already a form of financial transaction tax. At 0.5%, it is Europe's highest! Much higher than the French(0.3%) and Italian(0.2%)...
I don't think the British are so stupid as to commit suicide. This will not pass. I can understand why Brexit went through. The immigration policy...
This will encourage more people to use CFDs to bypass expensive stamp fees. It is ridiculous. Other countries have zero or low stamp fees. Who do...
I would suggest that you start off with the stock market in your Slovakia. Stocks are easier and there is home ground advantage.
Hi elite traders, I am new to using margin for trading stocks. I use Interactive Brokers. IBKR will give a warning when the margin cushion is 5%...
The service I get from IBKR's customer service chat is reasonably good. Their technology platform and commission rates are so far the best I have...
Very surprised by the super-low commission rates of local brokers. How the hell do they survive? I thought IBKR was efficient enough. I guess the...
From personal experience, the points about high commissions, lack of liquidity, transaction taxes are not true for Japanese stocks. I use...
It is a good idea. The problem is there will be many free-riders who contribute nothing but want to benefit from the efforts of others. Software...
Lower interest rates on margin, prioritised customer support over other retail investors, access to more markets ...
I see. I believe there may be retail investors with bigger accounts >1m that are not institutional. I wonder if they are treated differently....
May I ask what do you mean by that?
The fund managers are in danger of either having their high salaries cut or their jobs lost to machines. Passive funds are a form of machine...
IBKR is a wonderful broker for the more savvy retail investors. I am wondering for the bigger retail investors, do they get extra benefits from...
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