Yes, flaunting your wealth is the only way to go if you are rich. How about a poor person playing the rich (via easy credit) - is that okay...
If past experience is any indication, ARCA has several quote connections and apparently RealTick gets the good ones, and IB gets access to less...
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You might consider opening an account at Interactive Brokers. Your 310 share order in and out would cost $6.20. Other places are cheaper than...
$.12, right?
This is incorrect for retail accounts at IB. If you are flat and you specify a sale, then it is deemed a short sale whether you like it or not....
This implies to me that someone arbitrarily determined that the action up to 856.00 was "normal".
I don't believe IB will automatically liquidate equities during pre or post-market. I believe the auto-liquidation for equities only occurs...
1) Yes, it doesn't exist anymore, but for tax purposes in the year 2002 it did exist. 2) If you traded stocks in 2002 in your universal...
Reread my post on the bottom of page 4 of this thread. Not only was IB's way of reporting their 1099-B forms legitimate, but if your total sales...
There has to be a penalty for bringing lawsuits like this to court. I.e., if the lawsuit is deemed to be frivolous, the lawyer's license should...
What if IB's software doesn't resend orders this way to take advantage of this queueing behavior? It may be worthwhile to double check with IB on...
Good question. Got this from a Yahoo page: Man, that is irritating. Got to move to a state that doesn't tax Roth IRAs on withdrawals.
With a market order, it seems like the specialist could definitely hose you just as badly as an instant execution with TMBR could. Are you...
If you are really concerned about it you can ask IB to give you the audit trail for your order. My take on what happened: TMBR was not on the...
Why is this upsetting? If you have a Roth IRA then the money is pre-taxed before entering the account. You can trade this Roth IRA account as...
From what I understand, if you trade both securities and commodities, then you have two occupations. One is "securities trading" and one is...
The biggest advantage of MTM for me is that I don't need to worry about wash sales. You can have two types of accounts. One can be your...
IB seems to have their connection to Instinet, Island, BRUT, and BTRADE pretty well smoothed out (except for brief glitches). It just seems odd...
Actually, for QQQs and SPYs I would like: SMART_WITHOUT_ARCA_AND_AMEX I would actually trade the QQQs and SPYs again through IB if I knew my...
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