Also, I'm sure IB only auto-liquidates accounts during normal market hours.
True, but you never deposited "your initial investment" into the account - thus the call. You should have deposited enough money in your account...
Look, the original poster hasn't said "I didn't tell IB to not exercise because I thought it couldn't happen because this was an IRA account"....
Customers already have that "DNE" option you are asking for. The original poster didn't take advantage of that option that was clearly available...
Wow, can't believe this argument is still going on. The fact that this was an IRA account is just secondary to the real point. The original...
Why dont you contact IB support - either live online or via telephone?
Thank you for that information. Have a nice day. :)
Wow! Good thing you only bought 3 @ 543876 because you took a -90% beating between there and the next buy! Don't bother reengineering this...
Of course, if the options are marketable - the best thing to do is sell them and be flat. All I'm saying is that if you don't want to be...
Yes, absolutely I'd stop exercise if I had no plans of actually paying for 1600 shares of GOOG - no matter where is closed on Friday. The...
d9d - As you know, the stock market isn't open on Saturday - when the shares are assigned. The first possible chance to liquidate is monday...
Well, here is the lesson to learn from this: If you are holding options that "look" to be out of the money and you want to be absolutely...
Here is the blurb from the IB site on "contrary intentions" - "Expiration Friday Option Exercise Instructions Use the TWS Option Exercise...
I don't think he needed to close them out - but I do think he could have told IB that he didn't want to exercise them. That would have prevented...
To exercise AND HOLD the resulting position.... hold being the key word there. I think it was up to him to either sell the calls - or tell IB...
He didn't "buy" it - it was assigned to him. Big difference really. When he bought the options, he entered a contract to buy 1600 shares of GOOG...
Maybe. How many millions did you spend in the research and development of these 11 systems you want to sell?
Why would a hedge fund want to buy your systems instead of just trading their own?
Why would he need to do anything - much less add a path statement? Unless, of course, beteween yesterday and today he removed a path...
Why would it work yesterday and not today for you - yet it seems to work today for everyone else? What changed between yesterday and today?
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