They are supposed to give you BEST EXECUTION so by SEC law the should fill your order at the best price and not hold on to it
This is what is happening ...They are displaying false bids and asks . You have to use a Direct Access Broker...
Basically don't trade with Ameritrade . You will get F'ed up big time . Just stop trading and move all your money somewhere else .. See...
BTW I hope you are not using Td Ameritrade Data Feed because you could be off in your timing due to lagging quotes . Google - Td ameritrade...
Why don't you just take some money like 10 or 20k and buy long term calls or leaps on over sold stocks options like Csco or Ek etc Last time...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013604576104090997516476.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs#articleTabs%3Darticle
http://stockmarketloss.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/td-ameritrade-fires-coo-david-kelly/
I dont think I can post links to the story so just google AMERITRADE FIRES VP/COO DAVID KELLEY
I still want to know what Broker he was using because if he was making money and suddenly started losing it ..there cold be more going on just...
Who is your Broker ? Are you by any chance trading with TD Ameritrade ?
I am looking for any site that has options historical data or options historical charts . Prophet.Net used to have them before they shut down .....
With $150k I can make the whole $12k in one week but that wold be trading options ..
TD Ameritrade is having so many problems and they knew about the bad quotes but did nothing about it . Actually its illegal for them to let people...
I would not put all my money in any one account I would not even have all my money in trading accounts after I got wiped out of 6 figures from...
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