This is going to kill the WSOP since most of their qualifiers came from the internet sites. There goes my dream of winning $15mil at the 2007 wsop.
I believe it was implemented sometime in 2004.
Don, Have you ever considered opening a retail side and attracting non-professional customers?
Its definitely an IB issue. My other broker, which has now become my primary broker, rolls out updates to its software about twice a month. And...
I believe having a fixed monetary or points goal is counterproductive. Your performance is largely affected by market conditions and on some days...
How about enabling full ECN functionality? IB's the only direct access firm not to have this feature, yet everybody I talk to refuses to even...
Chances are it's a stale quote issue. IB had bad island feed for much of the morning.
.0025 seems like a really low rate for a retail trader. There is a big difference between prop and retail. Alot depends on who your firm clears...
Its all about arrogance and dignity. These men still don't think they've done anything wrong so they are not going to run and be branded a...
Tech IPOs in 2000 used to drop massively from their opening print all the time. However, this is the first time I've seen a major ipo drop so...
Williams must have been really playing hardball in his IRS negotiations. The government usually gives you plenty of chances to fess up and pay.
By "local" are you referring to state taxes? If so, then of course I pay state taxes. Your entire gross personal income, including capital gains,...
Ignore most of the threads on this board. They are written by people who are taking their own money and attempting to trade the markets, a very...
It sounds like the fund only only a couple of hundred million at its peak, but everbody just decided to take out their money. I'm very surprised...
Different IB accounts log into different servers. Maybe that server was having issues that day.
The live feed was down in the morning, but its working for me now.
Arne Alsin's pumping the stock simply because he has a long position, which is certainly unprofitable at this moment. How is that any different...
Technically all US stocks are tradeable from 4:30am-8pm since those are the hours of the arca ecn. Volume before 8am though is practically 0.
I've never heard of this happening. Just because your covering trade hasn't cleared does not mean they can just execute a buy-in of their own,...
I take large losses all the time. The only difference is that I take even larger gains and I have 6 years of successful trading behind me with a...
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