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I think I may have found it. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/tws/usersguidebook/ordertypes/trailing_market_if_touched.htm#XREF_74566_Trailing_market_if...

With a 1% Trail-Stop order - if you go long and if the market goes up 1% and then down 1% you get stopped out at the near the same price you entered. Is a 'reverse' trail-stop possible whereby if you go long - and if the market goes down 1% and then up 1% and your get out of the position near...

In order to avoid the wash sale rule being applied to 1000s of transactions, you can create an LLC. Then apply for trader status for that LLC. Then issue yourself a k-1. Would that work? The reason why I would never apply for trader status myself is because it is permanent and futures 60/40...

Ok thanks for the reply.

Do futures settle T+3 days later like equities in a CASH account? I know that futures in cash accounts do not get intraday margins. And as far as I know cash accounts don't get margin calls. But what if a trader is short CL futures in a cash account and CL goes up 10% and the account is...

TAN and FAN

I don't see capitulation until we sell off hard all day long all the way into the close. So far we've seen aggressive buying off the intraday lows for three days in a row - that's a sign of confidence, not capitulation.

The Nikkei closed down nearly 10% on 3/14. Looks like EWJ is about to close nearly flat today (3/15). So if today's EWJ closing price holds in Japan tonight, that means Nikkei will gap up 10%.

IB hires it's errand boys from ghettos. All IB customers are basically unpaid beta testers.

These ETFs will be a dud, as it's not a real fund but rather a partnership that you are buying into and out of. K-1s will be issued for each ETF traded. As far as the leverage, FINRA has already issued new rules that require proportionately higher margins for higher leveraged ETFs so there is...

And yet IB bets everything on java.

The studies show that the PUT and BXY Indexes beat the SPTR (s&p total return) buy 1-3 %. However the indexes do not account for the cost of taxes, slippage, or commisions. Once those costs are added, those strategies lose their advantage. The biggest expense would be the 35% tax on short...

I'll break the rules just one last time and never again.

Thanks

If: I am short cash secured or stock secured options and I don't care if I get assigned and I do get assigned while on vacation Then is there anything I need to do? Is any interaction with broker required? Also are there any extra costs related to assignement?

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First contact with IB was over a month ago. I call to notify them of the death and to inquire about the procedure to withdraw funds to his estate. They rep. I speaks to tells me he doesn't know the procedure but that IB has an estate department that handles this and they will contact me. I...

My father recently passed away. He has a six figure account at IB and I am the advisor on the account. My mom is the executor of his estate. Its now been 4 weeks and counting since IB received all the official documents from the executor of his estate to close his account and send a check to...

Let's keep this thread going. CML 252 P/E, 75 forward P/E RVBD 242 P/E, 47 forward P/E FFIV 74 P/E, 34 forward P/E I'm not shorting any stocks mentioned in this thread. If I trade them at all I'll be going long OTM calls on the pullbacks and long DOTM puts on the new 52 week highs...

Sucess = Delay of Gratification. This is empirical fact. 99% will fail to Persist on the Long/Hard Path of Sucess because at some point they will fall for the Seduction of Instant Gratifications and Shortcuts. Once u fall for the loser's bait of instant gratifications shortcuts u learn how...