Recent content by crew

For what its worth, here's what I was told by TD: each contract that you had before the r/s is now for 25 instead of 100 shares. They said these options would be traded as "special options". I had Oct puts with a strike price of $5; for them to be in the money UNG would have to trade below...

Okay, that's basically answers my question. I thought I had found a way to make some quick money in small amounts; but I guess if that were true everyone else would be doing the same thing. One final clarification: if I adjust the bid/ask up fractionally (bid 3.4820 ask 3.4880) is it more...

I use TD Ameritrade and State Street Bank and have entered subpenny trades w/no problems.

Yes, thank you....I meant 300 million.

I'm not a full-time trader, but I am a fairly active swing trader. I have Friday's off from my regular job (engineer) and try to monitor the markets looking for potential trade setups. Yesterday I had my Level II up watching Citigroup (C) along with some other stocks. I noticed that it was...

I am currently using two brokers, FXCM and Forex.com. I know they get a lot of bad press on message boards but I like both of them for my purposes and for different reasons. Obviously, I haven't tried to get any money out yet (what kind of problem did you have?). When I first started...

I started trading Forex with a micro account after spending considerable time evaluating 3 or 4 platforms on practice accounts. Starting with $525 I was over confident based on my demo account results. The first day I made all the rookie mistakes and did not do what had been working...