It's possible. One time I got an excellent fill on unwinding a covered call. I was long 400 stock, short 4 20 strike calls. I got filled...
ssmenger, all the reasonable brokers let you trade cash-covered puts in IRAs, or anything (like spreads) with DEFINED RISK. Some places are...
When i saw the $1+ cancellation fees, the first thing that popped into my mind was that it was a scheme to keep the spreads wide -- to kill...
they do pay interest on top of the inflation rate, but it's like .75% or so. So it's hardly anything.
It varies widely, it could be 0% with price improvement, or up to 2% if the market maker / specialist cheats ya big time.
Brokers are rarely able to collect from people who blow their accounts out due to huge up/down gap. Usually if someone's stupid enough to do that...
Fact is, INTC has been profitable, and even pays a dividend every year, AMD hasn't ever made money for it's shareholders, ever. Even though...
IRAs cannot take on positions with undefined risk. No company allows you to take undefined risk w/ IRAs. IB does allow naked puts in IRAs I...
"You hurt your own bottom line if you think you can hurt your opponent's more" Ok.. Intel reported in-line earnings, how did AMD hurt intel's...
Absolutely, if you want to buy a few million shares of a company, you don't want some house frontrunning you. As far as IB watching your...
No, since it's not real currency :p I think you found a loophole!
Well, he sounds like he's doing 5000 lot trades all the time or something.. In that case ameritrade would be a lot cheaper.
A lot of retail traders don't trade 2000 shares+ / trade. Personally, I feel the flat commissions to be very restrictive, and encourage me to...
If you know how to make money off FX, then yes, it's volatile, liquid, and you can do size too. You can use high leverage on top of that. I...
a nickel = $5 / contract avg size is prob around 10 contracts.. $50 / trade.. very significant.
They also round your order to the nearest nickel (down for your bids, and up for your offers) and send it to an exchange, so there's a chance that...
The idea is a crappy one. If you want to hedge against inflation, then buy the gold or silver commodity, and lock it up in your safe deposit...
So you traded options for 3 years, without knowing how they work. Knowing how options works includes what happens at exercise or assignment....
You can buy a coin or certificate good for 1 oz of gold.. for $1000. Spot of gold is under $700 right now, it is an outright scam, no question...
rofl, that site is a scam their "$20 liberty dollar coin" is one oz of silver, which is not $20. and look at this on their site HISTORIC...
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