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    Highest dividend?

    You may want to look at a Canadian one: RY but I dont know anything about their balance. Current yield 6% I think.
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    Interactivebrokers and interest

    Interest paid is based on balance, nothing under 10k, ... At the current yield (BM - 0.5%) the US yields 0% from 0 to 100k. All well detailed on their website. Fees/Interest and Financing/Interest paid.
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    AIG Financial Advisor Screwed me. Need Help!

    I think there is nothing to do after the facts (no proof probably). Before the facts you eitheir get the money out and invest it yourself or you threaten him to get your money out if he dosen't obey your orders. I've been in such a situation and he did "convince" me. Your going to miss the...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Good one VinMan. Did not play yesterday. Record day today (max number of fills, $ profit). 24 fills, 18 longs, 6 shorts, 21 winners (5 close to flat), 3 losers (all smalls). +0.22 average. Did see some downside on some, had trouble handling all that. Really went for it. Now off for one...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Aouch. 4 fills, 4 short, 3 winners (mostly flat), 1 loser. -0.21 average. WYE, nothing really I could do. Of course it went all back 15 minutes later, lol.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Hard or mental stop?
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    3 fills, 2 longs, 1 short, 2 winners, 1 loser. -0.01 average (mostly fees, flat before).
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    Trading Mistakes

    20) Being assigned on a naked short call or put and not knowing it!
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    Trading Mistakes

    18) The extra zero; buying 10000 instread of 1000 and the like. 19) The double stop. Doubling on the stop instead of closing the position!
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    "Soleil analyst downgrades Walt Disney Co. to 'Hold' and slashes price target nearly in half " One more time, lol.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    Quiet. 2 fills, 1 long, 1 short, 1 winner, 1 flat. +0.12 average. Both perfect outs. Cancelled 50%.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    5 fills, 4 longs, 1 short, 3 winners, 2 losers. +0.06 average. Cancelled a lot.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    A fixed target % based on fill price. Then I tape/chart read. The S&P move is in the equation but it's not the decision maker. I dont try to ride that much. I know how I expect per stock ballpark and it's there or it's not there. Before sending the orders. Cancell all the ones that have news...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    1 fill, 1 long loser. -0.13. Could/should have get out flat, PRU. Could have been worst. Cancelled a lot.
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    Will my limit order receive the opening price?

    For NYSE in order to get the opening print you need to make a limit, time in force OPG (opening). With that you get the opening print of the specialist if your price is lower than the open print for a sell and higher that the open print for a buy. When the open print is done your orders eitheir...
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    DRYS trading

    Isn't it possible to do pair trading with them? Buy the oversold, sell the oberbought. In stockcharts.com chart the symbol FRO:DRYS you would want to short FRO and go long DRYS as an example. You could also find som intraday trades. Good luck
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    4 fills, 3 longs, 1 short, all winners. +0.27 average. Screwed the last one by puting the order 15 cents away on the wrong side. Synthetic price improvement, lol.
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    I have a little new function to cancell (not sending orders) all stocks in a sector or industry (based on Yahoo). Very helpfull. It would have trimmed all of them. As soon as a stock in a sector has a big news I cancell them all. Recently I hadded more stocks to my list so I dont care cancelling...
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    Opening Orders - 2008

    I'm not going to tell how much anger I feel about my damn broker (IB) this morning. I'll just take a line to thanks him for freezing the quotes from 9:30 to about 9:35. Thanks, it really helps me. Did anybody else experience that? 6 fills, 4 longs, 2 shorts, 3 winners, 3 losers. Could have...
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    Liars poker

    In Liars Poker he was more looking as a seller than a finance wizard.
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