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because I find it unlikely the stock will be above 5 dollars by mid December and if it is then it is still a nice gain. This is also in a Roth IRA and I plan on holding for years buy and hold. So selling covered calls seems like a low risk way to make extra cash.

Ok, I'm curious what would happen here. I have a 4,300 shares of a rather volatile stock that is currently 3.53 per share. I have a GTC order to sell 40 December calls at a 5.00 strike for .20. .20 is the current low ask and it was .25 before I placed my gtc order. My only concern is that...

will IB be having a 2006 total year statement of trades, and if so when?

I thought You needed 50% of the position size for US stocks. For weeks I have held the same positions which has me leveraged with only about 33% of the total. These arent the numbers, but my example is that my Net liquidation value is 10,000 yet IB has let me hold 30,000 worth of US stocks...

I managed to lose my tradelog records along with the backup. I use IB and am trying to import the monthly statements through april into a new log, but It doesn't import correctly, it seems as though none of the closing trades are recording, only the opening trades. I was thinking it could be...

I bought a new laptop and built a new PC. I want to run benchmarks on the cpu and harddrives and ram, what are some good programs I can use to compare the two?

LILBOY716 I think your missing that point, that even with 32 bit applications the Athlon 64 performs better in most benchamrks and is cheaper than the comparible petium 4. So its not a waste of money

I also have to recommend IB I'v never had a problem with them. By far the best retail broker I'v ever used.

"The difference between my total account value and what my total account value is fell to beloew $2000" That was supposed to be the difference between my options value and account value fell below $2000. I'm not sure if it was immediate, I had to leave for a while. I know options are cash...

Today I had 1 stock position open and several options. I bought another option. The difference between my total account value and what my total account value is fell to beloew $2000. My stock position got liquidated and now it looks like I can't use margin. IS it because of the option I bought...