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    IB lost 50m on BRK irregular trades

    NYSE has rules which trades to bust or not bust. Price down to 200 from 600k would be busted (-99%+), while price up to 750k from prior average level of 600k (+25pc) apparently does not qualify. When I signed up for my first IB account in 2001 IB had less than 50k customers, almost all...
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    IB lost 50m on BRK irregular trades

    it looks like this hasn‘t been posted here yet: https://investors.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/about/mediaRelations/6-27-24.php ———————— GREENWICH, CT, June 26, 2024, Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), On the morning of Monday, June 3, 2024, at approximately 9:50 am EDT, the price of...
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    IB to soon offer Taiwan stocks

    It's been a while since IB last added a new country's stock market. TW is coming. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005686/en/Interactive-Brokers-Appointed-International-Broker-for-Sinopac-Securities "The collaboration with Sinopac also enables clients of Interactive Brokers to...
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    Interesting info from IB's quarterly conference call

    call transcript: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4380131-interactive-brokers-group-inc-ibkr-q3-2020-results-earnings-call-transcript - Peterffy will start selling 20k shares every day from November, to pay for taxes only. With this pace, he would have sold all his holdings in 60 years.. -...
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    Robinhood Red Flags

    I guess robinhood makes a lot of revenue from stock loan rates. Among the most widely held shares at RH are cannabis, crypto and other expensive recent IPO and glamour stocks that the smart money is betting heavily against and therefore have persistently high stock loan rates (I think, on...
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    "No coding required" solution for algo trading

    i remember this one, used to be called Rizm: http://alpha.accrue.com:3443/home and this one I just found googling: https://algoriz.com I am not familiar with either beyond just looking at their websites.
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    Robintrack

    A whopping 450k of robinhood customers own shares in Aurora Cannabis, the most widely held stock at the broker. https://robintrack.net/leaderboard All the other cannabis stocks with market caps in the billions, revenues in the millions and losses in the tens of millions are not far behind...
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    California Population Growth Lowest In History

    From the article: "Ethan Sharygin, a demographer with the state, said researchers had expected to find a decline in the birthrate but were surprised to see such a large change." call me crazy, but I think the sudden, unexpected and almost global acceleration of the birth rate decline is the...
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    IB 42m bad debt expense - which stock?

    very unlikely a penny stock 1) they are talking about a stock "listed on a major US exchange" 2) IB before already had a 100pc margin requirement for stocks with market cap below 200m usd
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    IB 42m bad debt expense - which stock?

    -- from IB's quarterly CC transcript (seeking alpha): "Second, we disclosed in early March, what was then a $47 million margin loan loss, which is now $42 million and on which we still are likely to collect more. This occurred in the U.S. listed stock in which several customers invested by...
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