If I were daytrading a stock and it hit my target price, yes, I'd wait for a pullback before selling. With options, I'm a little more strict....
You can pray that the company will do what's needed (file late reports, talk to regulators over their concerns about business practices, etc.) to...
Don't be so hard on yourself. With a volatile stock like this (look at what happened during the first few minutes when it retraced all its...
I'm not sure this is true. For instance, unless you direct route an option order, Ameritrade routes it to a specific exchange that they determine...
What's the procedure for choosing alternative account servers and market data servers? Presumably just editing jts.ini... what are the possible...
I think, if you use SSL, your trade and account info go over one connection (to gw1.ibllc.com:4001) and your market data goes over a different...
When a long call I own is exercised at expiration, what's the effective purchase date of the underlying, for long-term capital gains purposes?...
Or use the ticker base symbol QM.
After hours trading is similar to regular hours, but with a few differences. You can only enter limit (not market) orders, and there will be...
Did you call IB or use the online assistance or post on the IB bboard? I hope the first they heard about this error wasn't your post here on Sunday.
Here's another interesting one. CYBX was halted today about a half hour before the close, at $44.98. Then it was announced that the FDA approved...
I suspect they'll do fine with the support of big retail brokers. I've found that Schwab, for example, sends all SPY orders to ISE, even if it...
The 8-K with the earnings details came out a couple minutes before the official 4:30pm announcement.
FWIW... Ameritrade sends email a couple days before expiration warning us to have enough cash, positions, or buying power to cover any exercises...
IB does the expiration on Friday. I got flagged as a PDT there because some option positions I opened on Friday-before-expiration-Saturday expired...
I've used Interactive Brokers' TWS on Solaris. It works with either the java command-line programs or a browser with the java plugin....
I must just have bad luck, then. At one broker, my orders were sometimes locking and even crossing the market - so I asked them about it. They...
Maybe try Herb Greenberg at marketwatch.com or the folks who write the online trading column at Barron's. Perhaps even just writing to them and...
Ain't it the truth. Look at CELL's chart today. At 13:15, briefing reported that Deutsche raised CELL's target from $24 to $42. Stock shot up...
Volume yesterday for the IBM July and August 75 and 80 calls totalled around 20K contracts, or the equivalent of 2 million shares, while IBM's...
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