You can download Interactive Brokers trading software for free/no obligation and do paper trading to get used to the interface. I personally find...
I see them happen a lot. But I look at daily and weekly charts. If you are looking at minute-by-minute charts, I don't know.
Hello, Has anybody used Ally Invest? Their fees are lower than many others ($3.95 per trade with enough activity or enough balance), plus it is...
TD is solid. Their trade fees are higher than most. But they are solid.
This is meaningful information.
Their interface is horrible too. I simply cannot stand TWS or their web interface.
I was thinking the following: if you had an idea to buy an option, and you see a *lot* of people taking an open interest on that exact same...
Hello, Once in a while I will see a very high number of open interests, like this: 14 64 3240 134 4 In the above example, 3240 jumps out on a...
This is an interesting detail. Robinhood has described the way they make money is this: they round up the uninvested cash you have in your...
It is great that Robinhood exists. They have a new web-based interface they are rolling out early 2018. It looks very nice (unlike Interactive...
Hello, I saw a stock today. It was down a bit, and hasn't moved. An hour later, the long option price a few months out on a particular strike...
I think Republicans are planning to drive this through within 10 days... before the new Senator enters office in January.
Thanks for your response. I used to think options were exotic things for risk-takers and very sophisticated people. While I still think that has...
Hello, Lately I've been buying stocks with the intent to sell them a few days or a few weeks later. I sometimes feel like I have a good sense...
Also, I believe the S&P 500 performance over the years includes investing the dividends back into the fund/index. The average dividend in the S&P...
Hello, I've read in several sources that the value of the stocks in an ETF can drift away from the price. So an ETF trading at $190 could have...
That's a good point. When you buy the S&P 500, you are saying U.S. large cap stocks is the way to go. I also believe the S&P is weighted, so...
Thanks, It's interesting that the fees were only a little lower. It appears that IB would be way cheaper, but I'm new at this!
What is a "data feed", and what is a "decent data feed"? I'm new to this. I'm not sure what you mean. I hope they don't charge you to get the...
Could you clarify what these data feeds are? Do you mean they charge you to get the realtime stock prices during the day while you are trading?...
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