Anybody know how the index options like SPX, NDX, and RUT are going to be settled next Friday March 21st. Markets are closed so are they going to...
Well seeing as how a benadryl knocks me on my butt I dont think I can handle percocet...
True maybe I'll see what the morning looks like. I'm leaving at 10 so may just call it a day after that. Not sure if my head can handle the...
Damn figures that we might be heading into a whale of a volatile day tomorrow and I've got a surgery in the morning. I'll be taking medication...
Up 24% so far. I only trade index options and it's been pretty easy to make money using combinations of puts and calls....seeing as how the...
No data here again, this is one of the MOST frustrating days I've had with IB. I don't think I've had a solid 45 minutes without getting some...
Yup same here. my usfuture and usfarm say connected but usbond is disconnected.....yet I have no quotes and now stress because I filled an order...
Figures, I'd just gotten filled on an order I was trying to scalp and now have no data.....oh joy thanks for the added grey hair now!
My TWS screen just went blank and is showing no quotes for spreads. Just a bunch of question marks on my screen. Anyone else seeing this?
Another question regarding tax stuff since it's taxtime. If I trade just indexes like RUT which are 1256 contracts, do I need to be vary of the...
No the phone thing seems to take forever. I've been lucky so far that I haven't gotten caught in a situation where this type of outage has cost...
Okay I'm back in now. Might have just gone down for 5 minutes or something. You should be able to get in now...
Just tried logging into IB and I"m not getting to the passcode screen to login. Anyone else having this problem right now?
Yeah I've really found no use for paying margin interest to my broker since I've had no issue raising a decent chunk of capital. I've got about 7...
I took all this out back in 2003 when fed rate was really low and it seemed like I was getting a ton of these offers. I opened up an american...
I did something similar to start my trading account initially except instead of just getting a loan I used those credit card convenience check...
I'd imagine most baby boomers should have a portfolio that is less than 35% stock anyway. I always thought the idea was to put 1% in cash/bonds...
Another question along similar lines. I took out cash using one of those convenience check things from Washington Mutual so if WAMU was to go...
oh joy TWS spewing out garbage quotes again. Looks like the b/a is flipped on some indexes but it normal on some strikes for the same index....
That's the kicker to the whole thing was when I realized that the ask price was not being updated at all I called them on the phone. I talked to...
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