I have come to the conclusion that in the case of IB as well, you can just place the Forex trades and not worry about which will be conversions...
The U.S. and B.C. rules can only under international law be applied to foreign entities if those entities have a presence (such as an office or...
A major brokerage firm hassled me for transferring positions from one account to another like this (which is all I was doing). They detected it...
I am thinking of taking a long-term position in Hong Kong Dollars because I think that the HKD will be revalued upward relative to the USD...
The irony is, the HFT's would probably have you arrested for "market manipulation"!
According to a speech by Interactive Brokers' CEO Thomas Peterffy at the World Federation of Exchanges: "Brokers internalize stock trades and...
"You can make all sorts of exotic investments in an self-directed IRAs using trustees that allow such things - you are saying if you make an...
They cannot require you to make up any loss. The trustee is the owner of the account and you are just the beneficiary. They do not and...
I believe it is the Trustee that is responsible for determining the types of investments that are allowed in an IRA account. The trustee is the...
Assurant is good and also low cost (here anyway)
Normally you just get a warehouse receipt which you can sell so it is not that serious of a problem.
I use several of these but was frustrated to find I could only select one.
No a CTA can only trade/advise on futures.
His views are clear but I was making the point that his portfolio has only very modest exposure to some of them. In some cases under 100 basis...
He claims in other articles that his fund has lost little or nothing this year. I am not sure that this article has a completely accurate...
By the way, if you ever do stock trades, all except IB may place a 3 day "settlement" delay before you can use the proceeds of a sale.
Why not just use the broker's recommended IRA custodian? That way costs are minimal. For example, IB and Tradestation will do this at...
Thaks - interestingly I find that some stocks that are highly correlated do not have good cointegration values. But some certainly do so that...
Thanks to those posting potential pairs. I found that some of these work very well. I have my own code to test for cointegration. Does...
The TradeStation base platform fee is currently being waved for new accounts through the end of the year. Details are on their web site. If...
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