CFerret very good way to go...the only thing is it's like watching paint dry. I am a gambler, risk taker, so I trade....I have 13 accounts and haven't blown one out yet! In fact they all produce income every month....all of them. I have them setup so they produce income each month even if the...
If you open an account @ TD Ameritrade, get approved for that account to be a margin account. The problem is you must keep the account value above $25,000. One way to insure that is to transfer stocks you own into that account to maintain the $25K then add some other cash to that margin account...
1. If you sell a "covered call" option and choose a strike price below what that stock a stock "you own" is selling for at close on expiration day, one penney lower "You Win." Do this a hundred times and you win a hundred times... i.e. you still own the stock and you pocket the proceeds from...
When I decide to make a trade...which at times comes very quickly many times in-tra-day:
1. I trade 99% of the time with other traders money. i.e. I don't borrow margin money directly ever unless I'm forced to... & yes that does happen but rarely. The worst thing that can happen is I may have...
What in the world do you trade?? .03 you must trade multiple 1,000's of shares each time, I used to do that before I discovered the power of Options...Ooops or are you swing trading Options? I don't have a Mark-to-Market IRS standing so I try and keep away from the damn wash-sale-bull-shit as...
The TD Ameritrade data delay thing has been going on for several weeks now. I call raise hell and it usually improves for a few days. I use TD Ameritrade mobile most of the time..level II has been great, the data lag occurs within the account / holdings detail. At times the watch list lags...
Do you swing trade multiple times each day....same equity? My suggestion is to place only limit order trades..you then really wouldn't care about lag times would you? It's always great to watch Level II bid / ask timing is your best friend when filling and order.