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Does anybody know of any free paper trading platform where you can practice trading options and use Market-on-open and Market-on-close option trades. All of the free practice stock trading sites I came across so far only allow generic market orders. Does anybody know of any one that allows those...

Lets say as an example that MSFT is currently at $50 a share and you think that in the next week that the stock price will most likely increase a lot. Additionally you also think that there is a small possibility that the stock will decrease a little but that you don't think that it can go below...

So there doesn't exist a bond fund out there where as a matter of policy that they hold all there TIPS to maturity and don't try sell them? Surely if they did this their share price couldn't go down.

I have two questions regarding bond mutual funds that I was hoping someone could answer for me. I was looking at VISPX, Vanguard Inflation Protected Securities Fund, and I saw that there were times in the past when the share price of the fund went down. I don't however understand how this can be...

I'm surprised that there doesn't exist anything like CDARS but instead with brokerage accounts instead of CDs. Also, yes the question does apply to billionaires too. Do they invest with online brokers? I didn't include this question before since I just assumed they physically hold their stock...

So I read that some day traders can manage accounts amounting to many millions of dollars. This got me wondering. How exactly do they protect this money if they use an online broker since from what I read SIPC only protects cash up to $250,000 and stocks up to $500,000? So just as an example...

Does the rules regarding the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act apply for ETF's or is it only for stock buys and sells?

So I was looking at two 3x etf's and I was wondering if someone could answer a question for me about them. I was looking at (SPXL) Direxion S&P 500 Bull 3x ETF and (SPXS) Direxion S&P 500 Bear 3x ETF. From what I understand whenever SPXL goes up, SPXS is supposed to go down and vice versa. But I...

I've been reading about what it takes to qualify as a trader for tax purposes so that you can avoid the wash rule, but a lot of the details seem a bit vague. I was hoping someone could clear some things up for me. According to this website...