You might want to put this in the Pro Firm topic of the Direct-Access Brokers category. They have other fees, though. And they may make you...
What it comes down to is this all pretty anonymous and you don't know who's on the other end when you make a trade. Most of the time it's big...
Mine's working normally, but I didn't get the new version. Bundlemaker, you know if you highlight a ticker line, then click the Order icon,...
Several options I watched on earnings report day seemed to peak about 25 minutes after earnings were released or 25 minutes into the company's...
The "they" I was referring to was the regulators. Bunny rabbits = cash purchased options horse pills = 3 daytrade limit horse = 4:1...
Well they're prescribing horse pills for our little bunny rabbits (who aren't even sick), while letting people keep horses in studio apartments....
That's it. I'm going to make a painting of dogs daytrading. The lapdog is going to be using a laptop. Does the big bulldog or german shepherd...
I might change the name to Options & SSF, or something like that. But I should be there.
The longer we sit by without protesting, the more they'll push the limits up. The sooner we start complaining the better. If we let it slide,...
I do feel wary about trying to point out the obvious illogics of these rules, for the fear that they might use these points to make even stricter...
That's another logical argument to make in our letters: if the intention of these restrictions is to limit financial risk, why did they accompany...
Some people were very annoyed with IB, not for changing the rules which was not their fault, but for completely giving no kind of notification...
If the dividend were cancelled, likely the stock price would drop to match the SSF, so the profit would be in shorting the stock rather than...
It's great that the SEC apparently really did read your letter and gave you a very thorough response to it. These organizations do take notice...
I don't know why you can't buy options under $1 from a cash account, or if it's mentioned anywhere on the site. But before I changed my account to...
It's true it's $2 round trip. You might want to make sure you open a cash account not margin. Options in margin accounts are subject to the...
I do it to make money. It's just more difficult to succeed at doing that with negative attitudes being thrown in your face by the people who...
I guess if you really can't tell which way the market is going to start, but expect it to flop around, you might want to be long and short, so...
You can purchase Call Options and Put Options on the same stock With Single Stock Futures (SSF), which only started trading yesterday, you can...
BAC SSF were trading all day 50 to 75 cents below the stock price. Is this just because it was the first day of trading and prices hadn't settled yet?
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