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The reason I bring all of this up is this...let's say you have a CPA that you have worked with in the past in a different business, and you have full confidence in him...then you start trading, go to someone else you will probably never meet face to face, unless you happen to be close to them...

Is there really a reason to use a CPA that specializes in doing taxes for traders only? If you have a quality CPA that you trust, is there anything that he would miss, that a CPA that caters to traders, wouldn't miss?

But you do have to dissolve the entity? Bummer.

Has anyone opened up a solo k account, and then converted it to an IRA? I'm not talking about having a 401k plan at a job, and then converting it to an IRA when you no longer work there. I'm talking about having your entity setup a solo k and converting to an IRA while the entity still survives...

To correct myself, if this does happen, I will wait until summer 2008 to renew, and download the rest of my 2007 trades at that point. Should this happen, which I think is unlikely, I will have to renew every other year, but in most cases I think every third year will suffice.

BTW, I've contacted them several times for help (while I was paid for the year, of course) and they've always been very prompt and helpful in their responses. I'm guessing they don't give you the time of day if your year is expired.

You're right; it's pretty ridiculous what they charge. I wouldn't mind if they charged like $50 for additional years, but charging almost as much as you paid for the program that you paid initially is nuts. Unfortunately I'm stuck using TradeLog because my accountant uses them. Saves more on...

http://www.limebrokerage.com/index.php?title=Lime_Brokerage_LLC (They may have switched to their own proprietary platform, but they previously used Redi) http://www.gracefg.com/ http://www.shorelinetrading.com/

You need to be more specific. Do you daytrade/swingtrade? Stocks/futures? Typical size/frequency of trading?

http://www.alliancetrader.com/ They're not a US-based company, but you can trade US stocks through them--and not just 4 round trips every 3 days, or whatever the rule is. I believe they get around the PDT rule by being based offshore (Jamica). I don't know anything about them, but I...

I'm currently demoing the software. I believe that they normally don't offer a demo, but they are offering this until the end of March. Is this correct, Lawrence?

Do you trade with IB by an chance?

Hmm...I entered a symbol in a quote line in TWS and chose 'BATS' and I got a message that I need to subscribe to it. But when you go to IBs 'market data subscriptions', there is no option to subscribe to that ecn. i do remember not having EDGX a while back at IB, and eventually it just showed...

A few years ago I had a problem at times with TWS not allowing me to adjust my price. So I would click on a bid or ask, change it up or down, and even though the price would look like it was changed, it would stay at the price I originally clicked on. Once I got filled selling 300 shares of a...

So who offers BATS, besides Redsky? I don't see the option to subscribe through IB or TradeStation. I'd hate to miss out on 13% of the market.

http://www.redskysecurities.com/files/BATS_Redsky_Release_020607_FINAL.doc I was just at the website for Redsky Securities, and they have a notice about offering access to BATS, which I guess is another ecn. I've never even heard of this, I don't see BATS in my current quote systems, and...

I just read the Briefing note. Did they handle this properly?

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84518

I'm not sure that I understand the difference between a dedicated line and extranet. In both cases, do you need to pay for your own T1 line? Are both options simply a more direct connection to IB's servers than the public internet?

I've been having frozen quotes on IB today and yesterday. Bids higher than asks. Is this the same as you aer seeing?