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A couple of months ago I put in an order to close out 1000 shrs of AMAT through IB. A few minutes later I noticed my trade was executed at $2, 13 pts below the mkt. I immediately called IB and told them of the error and they said they would look into it. I assumed it was just an incorrect...

My grandpa bought me a share of KO when I was 13, and I watched it move from 35 to 70 over the next year. At that point I could not imagine doing anything with my life that did not involve the market. I read a couple of Peter Lynch books and set out to be an analyst. After college I started...

This happened to me 2 days ago. Try logging off and then logging back on. It should clear it up.

Well, that "cool new toy" called YM spanked me really good. In fact, it was the biggest losing trade I've made yet. I didn't trade YM with my system -- I traded it thinking that I could sit there all late afternoon and scalp it afterhours totally ignoring the fact that MSFT was about to...

Good rule. These types of trades always kill me. I saw their guidance was well below expectations and I was able to put out a short quick enough to see a nice profit, I was just too slow to cover. When the stock bounced because of the positive reaction to IBM's number I should have covered...

I gave up trading pre-market several months ago when I realized I just can't get myself in a proper frame of mind at 5:00 A.M. PST. While there are certainly opportunities there is nothing worse than being down $1000 before the open. As far as after hours is concerned earnings season can be...

A lot of people don't like trading the Dow minis because of liquidity, but you might want to look at the $2 Dow mini (YJ). A 100 pt move in the Dow would only put you +/- $200 versus $500 for a corresponding S&P move. Whatever you trade good luck.

I can't believe they would not let you sell NVLS after buying it, sounds like they entered your long under the wrong type of trade description. As far as the lack of available shorts it sounds like they have made some sort of internal change to their policy.

I have noticed the same thing, I trade these types of stocks daily and have never had a problem shorting through IB. This last week nothing has been available to short. Besides the stocks you mentioned, NVLS and AMZN were not available yesterday. I ended up selling naked in the money...

Textbook definition of a zero sum game states that losses and gains to all positions must net out to zero.

It depends on what market you are trading, but the equities market is not a zero sum game. Despite what some of the people on this thread imply when they constantly thank the losing traders for lining their pockets, the $8 trillion in market cap that has been lost in this market did not flow...

Back in July we had news events which lead to panic opens. WCOM fraud, INTC warning both created panic type opens with nice reversals. In the current environment there has been nothing specific to cause a panic, just apathy against a backdrop of negative economic and political news. Hopefully...

No problem, glad you're having a good morning.

Does anyone know how long it takes for these phone orders to show up in account?

Just logged back on, positions I closed by phone are still showing up in acct.

I have traded with them for a year and a half and the last few days have been unreliable, although I am not sure it has been completely their fault. Getting through on the phone can be a pain in the ass especially on a Monday morning when their is a system outage. I was on hold for 10 min...

No better way to start off a Monday morning losing $1000 while waiting on hold with IB support to close out 3 positions.

Logged in this morning, initiated 3 trades and now it has logged me off and will not reconnect. This is the third day in a row I have had this problem.

You can say what you want about Cramer, but Greenberg has been all over EDS for the last year, down 13 pts after hours.

You have a point about the number of posts, but it has definitely made this board entertaining.