Taxes. Or did you want a list of all the things they get wasted on?
Single stock risk is always there - sudden good or bad news, etc, that someone else knows before you do. The best you can do is diversify across...
Kinda fun, are you supposed to do any particular number of trials? I was doing quite well for a while, and then reverted towards the mean...
If you don't like the way they round for interest purposes, take the other side of it. Sign up for IB's stock lending program and get paid double...
Shorts are always short term. They measure the "holding period" from when you buy til when you delivery to cover, which is typically 1-3 days....
+1!
I wish they'd just kept Command Center up too, instead of forcing everyone onto TOS. I've been reporting bad quote/order book problems for a...
I always thought the only way to get approved for options (margin, etc) was to claim you'd already been trading them for years. Catch 22 until...
For Sec 1256 futures (most of them) you just report your net PNL marked as of EOY. For stocks its a mess with wash sales and such, but you can...
It probably depends on whether your broker allows simultaneous long and short positions in the same stock (ie +100 shares, and also -200 shares)....
Yes. Small money is easy, bigger scalable money is harder often much harder. I care a lot more about risk than most people. Put in the...
It depends when your sending bank gets around to sending the next wire batch. I've sent wires to IB in the early afternoon (1-2pm EST) and had...
Preliminary press release finds... NYSE Arca to blame, not HFT.
Got it, thanks. I'll keep this in mind, especially if I hit 10mils next month :).
Don't be lazy - use limit orders. Sure market orders are safe for big liquid things like major stocks and ETFs, but for anything less, determine...
ofthomas - can you say a little more about the differences between IB's retail and prop sides? What do you mean by getting "costs normalized" and...
Sticking with your original numbers of $30 round trip commissions per position x 40 positions daily (later you swapped the 30 & 40), at flat rate...
Can't tell if you're joking, but that fine is for misleading advertising over a retail ID theft credit product that was likely outsourced to some...
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