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    TWS price alerts suddenly disappeared

    I ran into a problem with IB's login system about 10 days ago where their SMS 2FA system broke down and when I called they gave me a temporary password that did not require 2FA. It was sorted out after a couple days. They were excellent about getting me up and running fast, no complaints.
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    Your experiences with being auto-liquidated by IBKR's strict risk management

    I'm with IB Canada. I trade Canadian and US stocks on margin, although I only trade common stocks and I'm always long. From what I've read the autoliquidation disputes seem to be in options. One of the disputes I read about, a hedge fund with positions that were autoliquidated by IB, the dispute...
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    CRUDE!

    I'm long Encana (TSX:ECA); hopefully it will get a boost. Back in May 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small city here in Alberta that produces about 2% of the world's crude (2 million bbl/day) had a big fire and some of the production got shut down temporarily. That sent oil prices up a little...
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    CRUDE!

    I would think CL is going to put on $5 or more Sunday night.
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    America's Middle-Class Is Losing Ground to Canada's

    The keyword is, "Find another way to communicate."
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    America's Middle-Class Is Losing Ground to Canada's

    I live in Alberta. I pay about $3.90 per U.S. gallon of gas, 5% federal GST (similar to a VAT but only the end consumer pays) on most stuff, am sitting in the 42% combined federal-provincial marginal tax bracket on $200K, average rate of income tax is about 36% for me. Capital gains tax incl...
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    America's Middle-Class Is Losing Ground to Canada's

    America's very richest are a lot richer than Canada's very richest, meaning America has a lot more billionaires than Canada. The richest Canadian billionare is $28 billion or so. But it's not hard to get to over 1 million net non-primary residence (like if you buy it for $200,000 and you sell it...
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