If you direct routed, you should have been able to sell an existing long position. What did Schwab say? My experience, when I used them, was that...
Does this differ from the mobileTWS app that's been in the google play store for months?
IIRC, Schwab after hours orders aren't eligible to execute until 4:15pm, unless you direct route.
A couple weeks ago, my mobiletws watch lists for my real account and paper trading account disappeared. The watch lists are still there if I...
I don't understand. You chose to deal with them. You knew the commission prices. You know your account size and trading frequency. Why accost them...
VXX is worth buying for several days each year. Now is not the time. I think we could see VIX under 11 after the debt ceiling vote on Wednesday....
The anxiously awaited analyst day is tomorrow. At-the-money options expiring Friday have an IV of 150. How would you play this?
One of my brokers (actually, its web site) wouldn't let me trade the leveraged funds FAS and FAZ until I changed my investment objective to...
IV for USO used to go down right after the weekly EIA reports in the mid-2000's, back when oil's price was more closely linked to short-term...
Unemployment is not expected to get to that target until 2015. The other threshold for stopping QE is inflation > 2.5% - we may reach that first,...
Some sites trap mouse right-clicks so that you can't bring up the menu to copy or paste, but you can still use control-C and control-V to do the...
If VIX quadruples to 60, UVXY may go up by around 8x. But if that doesn't happen until, say, next summer, UVXY may be in the single digits by...
You can read about this fund at http://www.proshares.com/funds/uvxy.html . It is priced similar to VXX and VIXY. All three are based on a mixture...
Sure there is: shelf space. Fully 3/4 of the printer and ink space at the local Staples stores are taken up by HP. I think it's brilliant that a...
thinkorswim can show the volatility index of a stock. In a seminar, one of the reps said it's calculated "just like the VIX".
Are you buying UVXY because you want to make money when the market goes down? If so, why not buy puts on SPY? If you're buying UVXY because you...
Trading options can be risky with small accounts because the temptation is to buy options that are cheap - out of the money or with little time...
I've read a suggestion that insiders have been buying at $10 so they can take it private at not much more than that, then resell it at a big...
It's pretty easy to install python from source into whatever directory you want. Then just change your PATH variable to look there before...
BoA had the same deal even before they bought Merrill. If you can afford to keep $25K in a deposit or CD account earning near zero interest and...
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