I haven't been able to open any new positions at my broker since Monday morning because I opened some option positions on Friday and they expired...
My broker gave me a fill for my day limit order at 4:00:10. I called them about it. The rep said that the fill "probably" happened before the...
My broker suddenly changed the margin rules today. We now need equity with margin value (essentially, equity exclusive of option value) to be >...
One of my brokers isn't direct-access for options; they send to a subset of the exchanges. (They once told me that for each option, they have a...
Looking for suggestions on books to read about merger/acquisition arbitrage. USAI/EXPE/ROOM/TREE are mostly trading in tandem, but not always -...
This has happened to me a couple times in the past few months, and since I use IB (where there's no on-screen log of every change you make to an...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/business/01SEC.html is an interesting article about how underfunded the SEC is. Here's the real infuriating...
I've been looking at LSTR options the past couple of days, and I'm surprised the bid/ask spread is so large. Only one exchange handles them, but...
I've started looking at DIA options, and I noticed that (at least according to Streamer), trades seem to be going on after hours. (Today, for...
I have some old stock I want to unload, CHEF, and it's on the pink sheets now. I'm using my broker's (not the one who sold it to me; they're out...
My trading platform lights up icons on my watchlist when new news for a given company appears, but a lot of the time the only news item is spam...
Do brokers generally refund the commission when a trade gets busted? I'm talking just about the original, busted trade, not the subsequent...
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