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Wow, I didn't know there would be such a choice. One other thing I should have asked before: Do any of these brokers also allow you to deposit third party checks? TD Ameritrade does allow you to do this--albeit with certain conditions--but I am looking for an another idea. (I know this...

Thanks to each of you. Thinkorswim doesn't offer a checkbook and are a Penson broker. Are any of the brokers people have mentioned Penson brokers?

Please elaborate. :)

Thanks. Do they require you transfer the funds to a separate account before writing a check? I believe Tradestation?? offers the service on this basis.

I know TD Ameritrade does. Do you know of any other brokers who do? Thank you in advance.

Can you elaborate on what you mean they are pretty much the same as exchanges?

Come on guys, is everyone as uninformed as me?

Here are a list of some of the players I am referring to (some overlapping will exist): Stock exchanges, options exchanges, stock market makers, options market makers, specialists, corporate management, private equity groups, brokers, SEC, other government bodies, hedge funds, financial...

Does anyone know what "look ahead available funds" means? Does that mean in a certain number of days there are supposed to be more "freed up" funds in the account?

According to the brokers I mentioned, everything you are saying is true--only if it's with funds that were available at the beginning of the trading day--but not with funds made available through selling an overnight position. Meanwhile chatted with Thinkorswim, who told me he found on Google...

This is what I found on MasterTrader website just now using a Google search: http://www.mastertrader.com/CustServices/FAQs/MarginFAQs.asp I sold an overnight position today. Why isn't my buying power updated? Your account begins each day with a certain amount of excess equity (day trading...

If you have a link, I would desparately want to show it to Thinkorswim. They've had this policy for several months already & it's very restrictive.

It's a margin account, there is over 25k, it's a PDT, yet they have this policy. They are making this policy apply equally regardless of B & C. Response to Piezoe: This is NOT an IRA account. By calling the trade desk they will allow you to place the trade yourself online AFTER you assure...

Thinkorswim doesn't let you (saying there is a FINRA rule disallowing this). Is their understanding of this correct? I don't think other brokers make such a restriction??

You are definitely correct that retail traders have priority, hence I cannot understand who got in front of me. I know that many brokers who offer GTC orders simply reroute the orders each day, hence there is no overnight time priority by them--but that was not the case here. About penny...

If I have evidence that one of the options exchanges (e.g. NYSE, BOX, PHLX, etc.) are ignoring the time priority of the orders they receive from customers, what can be done with this information?

Failing to find meaning in life without God is one way people come to believe in God . Fear of death only helps someone who is already a believer, as it will cause him now to reckon with his heaven-sent mission in this world. However, for a non=believer, fear of death can lead him more...

Why must you be obsessed with buying things?

---You mean money & whatever you can get away with. I personally see a lot more in people than you do. I don't view the whole person as merely a money making machine. I have tasted both wealth & poverty, and can tell you that wealth did not make me any more happy or complete as a...

If your intention is merely to expose the weaknesses of the system so that people don't do such things (and you don't either) then you're a good guy. :) ...only you haven't really sounded like that.