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Thanks for your input! Yeah definitely I would try with paper trading first as I am new to options trading. I think you missed the point about hedging? if I bought a call option only, I will be exposed to risk if the stock plunged?

Thank you so much Lee! Thanks to you all

Hello, 1: Why options are always for 100 shares, what's the reasoning especially for expensive stocks? 2: How a small investor can hedge stock like AMZN where you can only buy less than 100 shares? 3: Is it good idea to buy a call option - instead of the share itself - along with a put option...

Hello, For interactive brokers API "One Cancel All" orders. Is there's a chance that by the time one order is filled and the algorithm try to cancel the other orders, the exchange will fill the order and thus you will have an overfill? Not sure if such orders are controlled by the exchange or...

If I shorted then covered the position in the same day, do I still have to pay interest on borrowed stocks? or I pay only if I didn't close my short position before market close & kept it overnight?

Thank you all, It's just a new way of interacting and was afraid that almost everything was done online. I think holding the wire transfer, account application and statements would be good enough as per your posts also researching online Thank you)

What if InteractiveBrokers gone wild and said I didn't have any account with them? I never did a subscription completely online with such significant account minimumn "$10K", so just want to be sure that legally I am on the right side

Hello, I am a foreigner subscribing to InteractiveBrokers, The account subscription is completely online, there's no physical documents. The only document I can get is simply printing my application details. Is it enough - in case of any wrong doings - to use the printed form of this...

Could you please give an example?

Euro has 1.5% margin interest, as per Interactivebrokers but 2.66% for USD. Is it possible to utilize this fact to purchase US stocks with margin using Euro and benefit from the lower interest rate? Will it be beneficial or there are other hidden costs that will make it irrelevant? Even better...