Dude, first things first. TQQQ gives you x3 return and you can’t lose more than you invested (unlike futures). But there is no free lunch, and so...
Things are different now. Your brokerage is supposed to detect and reject such orders. For a fact, IB does. But few years back, I entered a buy...
Its 1500 on March 9 and cant login on TWS and not on the webtrade either!
Some of you guys seem to be just out of the egg. Have you not seen dips bigger than 20% since you started trading? I have seen it happen three...
Not many people know, but its not a secret: IB can pay third parties. If you have rent to pay or some major purchase they will wire to a third...
Using both on a regular basis I would say iOS is slightly better, but not by much - there are still annoying bugs and glitches all the time on...
Not sure if thats what you want, but take a look at the Calamos closed or open end funds. BTW, how do you look for convertibles on TWS platform?...
Carry trade is alive and well, and in fact explains the negative German bond yield - what you do is convert money to euros, buy Bunds, buy...
One retail broker which allowed ST bonds for margin, was Vision. It was a place with a long tradition and competent customer service and good...
No non-direct-hard-to-borrow lines on my statements... but judging from that Barrons article I will be paying the regular borrow fee for a long...
thanks, a while back I had called on the phone and was connected (i think) to Corporate Actions. They managed to confuse me - I was told that as...
@tonyf That cant be right. IB will do calculations in your base currency but if the margin is posted in KRW or whatever it will charge you...
I'm not sure I understand. If you trade say in say Korea, your margin will need korean won. Do you convert Korean won in such case or do you just...
@elt894, its an ADR so the currency is USD. This is something like 1% of my cash balance, and IB still charges me. Would you elaborate? Is there...
Dont you have to convert currencies to avoid interest charges on the margin in local currency?
@Angelo_60, I dont remember exactly but I wanted to trade VDAX, the DAX volatility futures, and the value on it is ~15K euro and commissions...
@ciccio, do you only trade in european futures? I gave up on trading EUREX futures after I realized that IB charged very high fees relative to...
Segregation is good, money on demand is good, 7B in capital which IB boasts is also good, trading only regulated products is good, and if I didnt...
Sometime in 2018 I shorted a stock (an ADR on OTCBB) which went under suspension on the stock market in my country, and any transactions on the...
@ciccio, Just some quick remarks: 1) It used to be that brokers accepted investment-grade bonds as collateral for futures. Even if IB doesnt allow...
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