Recent content by chauncey1

Funny that you guys claim how solid IB is but everyone is making withdrawals to check if rumors are true.

Anyone made a succesful withdraw of >200k this last 2 days from IB?

Anyone has this problem? Its being a pain in the a.. this last days to get a wire delivered on IB on client accounts under FA. I wonder if the financial crunch hits IB as well. I have a wire stuck for about 3 days so far.

too late buddy, calls already expired.

In my casae i was applying for a futures/stocks account, like the IB universal.

Its pretty easy if you have proper ID docs, which is pretty reasonable. If you don't have a proof of address then you can't On MBT to open an account you have to print and sign like 50 pages, that really sucks

They cover for broker failure, no for identity theft or hacking, there are other types of insurance for this, ask you broker if they have some..

Anyone had this problem? I mean it, from FAF to U account or backward during today. I can't make a f...ing transfer, apparently IB made some upgrades on the web and fuck up things bigtime.

I think it may be a good bounce play around 85-87

Amazing the "mood" change. Yesterday everyone was telling that this was the last week for this company. Now its a hottie chick that can be taken over...

I wonder how do you took the money if today was a bank holiday on the US and e-trade didn't make any wire or ach transfer.

Like a couple of guys said MBT has one of the most friendly customer service around, but they have issues with the data on high volume or fast-moving markets, so its good if you have a back-up broker. May be IB-MBT as broker and backup broker (or viceversa) its the best combination for online...

Who knows if the BOJ will jump in like they did a couple of years ago. Besides that i think this pair should be traded very careful. Everything is set to a huge acceleration if the "hedge funds guys" panic and start to unwiding the carry trades exponentially, so, who knows, we can have 300...