Pick a time frame you are comfortable. Don't use sub-minute charts because of the data lag. Use whatever type of charts/indicators you feel...
You own 100 shares of GE. Sell the 100 shares of GE for a loss of $10. Next, buy 1 Sept 22 call 24.5 strike for $0.04. The call purchase will...
The answer to this question is YES. Your 1099-B will flag this transaction as a wash sale.
If you really want to take the losses this year, you can do it with call options. What you do is sell the stocks for a loss and buy a cheap short...
Sell a deep ITM put will be considered a wash sale by the IRS. IRS requires that you sell a put that has a substantial likelihood it will expire...
Besides going to sleep early and drinking coffee, you should consider taking a power nap (approx 15 min) around 9:00 am PT; this is lunch time in...
The price of the option is determined by the strike price and the time duration. I suspect that you purchased a far out of the money call. You can...
I am confused. Currently the CME Group website states: "Minimum Price Fluctuation: $.0001 per Canadian dollar increments ($10.00/contract)....
Yes the greek columns are filled out in a real account.
Don't like it. UI customization is more restricted. Changes to UI not obvious. Also no longer able to add/change columns on the position page....
My bad, only the stop is blue because it is held at IB. The limit should be green.
Everything is working correctly. When you place a bracket order, the stop and limit orders are suppose to be dark blue in color because they are...
Your best bet is to go back to Java 7 and use TWS 938. To do that, read this link https://www.java.com/en/download/help/java_revert.xml
OK, got hold of them. They want me to update my TWS and try again. So, I guess I will do that. Hopefully that will solve my problem. BTW, they...
Unable to contact them yet, so I opened a trouble ticket. Hopefully I will get a better answer then to reinstall Java and TWS.
Recently in the last 2 weeks, I am having problems exiting my position (real trading). When using the TWS Booktrader interface to place a closing...
The problem with this strategy is that you will experience a long string of losses that will mount up and blow up your account. The 3-4 pips is...
Have you looked at using the lowest low for the last 3 bars for longs and highest high for shorts?
So why trade options when futures seems to be more forgiving...less thing to get right? Both are leveraged instruments.
Home Depot only when up approximately 2%, this statistically insufficient. It is like need to explain why you are 36 seconds late on a 30 minute...
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