Bob: sorry if I conveyed that I wanted full service. Not at all, minimal service is one tradeoff I'm happy to make. Just looking for barebones...
IB-AN: that's a great/clear explanation--thanks! you've got me curious about the other denomination option. Does that suggest you can get a higher...
thanks for help/thoughts. Basically what I'm reading is; what I'm looking for: a good rate and the option to buy a stock now and again doesn't...
thanks. Why can banks pay 1% on liquid funds?
Hi: I have brokerage accounts with Schwab and Ameritrade. In both cases they have great services, but the rates they pay on liquid $ is laughably...
thanks total keops. I guess I just imagined what I was thinking. I thought I read somewhere/s [<as in more than once], that the internet was...
I found that wasn't true when there was a big spread. As soon as the specialist thought it was at a good price, they grabbed it--even though I had...
sorry, not sure what is meant by "!". Also, apologies, I meant to put this in the "Stock" forum. Though I suppose applies to options too....
It potentially allows me/one to buy and sell to myself in different accts to find the median of a wide bid-ask spread. A market maker will...
Hi: I feel like I've read that there are ways to buy and sell stocks directly from other investors with a market maker. Is that possible--and if...
Hi: if I'm short a stock and I have to pay out a dividend, how is that payment treated tax-wise? ie. is it offset against dividends I receive or...
thanks for tips; still happy to hear if there are others. The help is much appreciated! :-)
thanks Nazzdeck [clever name!]; uncovered puts is preferred actually. well, if anyone knows of names firms, I'd appreciate it, as Think or Swim...
'hi: does anyone know of a brokerage firm that will allow you to sell uncovered puts and calls in an IRA? If so, pls let me know. thanks, Marshall
I read it piezoe--thanks! Further in your post, you point out the simplicity of this. If it's as I'm sensing, it does seem quite simple...
I didn't realize that's what I was talking about, but I think it is. This is from watching the SPY. Do you know of any info on trading these...
yes, I think spikes probably is the term I'm looking for. And I'm probably wrong they may well be connected to volume. sorry for being so novicey...
Hi: I've been noticing in this chaotic market that thinly traded "gaps" on the S&P seem to mostly get "filled in". I'm curious to research this...
not sure why; play around with the settings. I don't have it in front of me, but if you mark of "day" instead of "year" perhaps for one of the...
Actually, I found it's with the "interactive setting" choice. And it seems to be totally flexible--though I only tried it for a couple stocks. You...
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