Recent content by Valorum

You certainly will not ever encounter any technical problem with your paper trading account, Trvlwanderer. and for the missing money : I once wired money to IB and after a week I had to call and ask why the amount wasn't credited : they forgot or were busy with something else or whatever.

Update : a miracle happened and the missing money reappeared. I saw already every possible (and I really mean every) technical errors bankers or brokers could come up with, so I am easily fed up and ready to scream my lungs out

No, no, I didn't do any FX trades recently. The IB person wanted to let me believe I made an error, since I do have some little positions in other currencies, but the fluctuations of these are only accounting for a few cents (and I wouldn't be pissed of by that fact)

Got a surprise this morning, by looking at my Ib account : some money is missing overnight. Of course I checked the last statement of the previous day and on it everything seems ok and no withdrawals were made nor noted. (my account is real, not a paper trading one) It is said that the...

No, it wasn't an US based OTC stock. The most strangest things happen on the one or other non US exchange : freezing quotes, executed orders that get canceled because the marketmaker changed his mind (the German marketmakers have that right), orders that don't appear on the screen, when they are...

Eight, I modified the price of an order on a low liquidity volume stock and it was clearly on the screens (the TWS and my backup quote feed for more than 5 minutes), ready to get filled. But the surprise came when my order disappeared and the guy with the sell order above me got a fill and I...

Did someone notice too that modified orders on the TWS may or not be executed? I Placed and order and when it was executed/should have been executed, I got "and invalid order". Yeah, only problem is that in the audit trail it was acknowleged. Got a problem another day with a modified order...

Shortbleu, You are forgetting the imposition rate of 30% on the gains you may realise on the transactions of US stocks. If I remember right, there are no taxes on stock market related gains in Belgium, so you better take this parameter into account.

Try Binckbank, if you only want to invest and not trade. The problem with a non french broker is that you might not get all parts that come with the dividends (I mean the avoir fiscal), since no fiscal statement is delivered at the end of the year. It would be then as good as losing half of...