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Man, I can't remember the exact dates. It was when he first started the AA Portfolio. My dad followed his calls on some of his money and was down about 20% for the year. The thing that really got me peaved at Cramer was that he injected money into his portfolio whenever he pleased - i.e., he...

It was right when he first started it and I followed it for a little more than a year.

If you say so. Action Alerts performance was just awful when I was following it.

What is this then? http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader/openclose/open.stm

Did anyone see the segment on Cramer last night where a caller asked him about using stops? He said that he never uses stops and you should just keep an eye out on the market regularly. Otherwise, give your money to a mutual fund. I find it fairly humorous that he would say this because I...

Last time I looked at this issue, IB does allow these orders but they are simulated, not native.

Sorry to be selfish, but since it is to my benefit to not call my broker on this matter, I will avoiding doing that. Nothing has changed in my account as of June 12th. It has been 3+ weeks.

By buying TIPS you are assuming the government can accurately measure inflation. It is in the government's interest to declare inflation low when it might not be. Just something to consider.

I have had some problems with IB's SMART routing algorithm as well lately. I will submit orders to SMART via the API to hit a bid on ARCA and my order will be routed to ISLD instead. I have tried sending in examples of this happening to IB customer representatives who have tried to help but no...

While in grad school I was invested in mutual funds til I read a website called Motley Fool. Pulled my money from mutual funds and bought some internet stocks right before their meteoric rise. I managed to lose about half of my portfolio value from the top before cashing out - still made some...

It has been about 2 weeks since I shorted and no corporate transactions have shown up in my account. Looking at the Yahoo message boards, I saw the following: http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=7082705&tid=kmg&sid=7082705&mid=3678...

Nothing has happened in my account as of yet. I am not sure when the $85 tender gets put in people's accounts.

1 trillion dollars

When I read the Reg T rules, I do not see why buying/selling and then using the proceeds from that sale to buy again on the same day is prohibited as long as you have the cash on hand at your brokerage to start with. I can see why the rule is needed if people need to deliver cash by the...

Link please. Does this apply to accounts over $25k?

I'd rather be in control of the situation on my end that have my brokerage be in control of the situation when they are obviously having technical problems. Wouldn't you? In other words, technical problems will happen whether you like it or not. Thinking about and preparing for these type...

When I have a major problem with the way help desk people are handling a problem I have encountered I just go over their heads and e-mail management at: ibmgmt@interactivebrokers.com I detail the problem I've encountered without getting emotional and it seems to work more often than not...

Can't you hedge yourself with SMH or something like that? Is it that you can't trade the options - or is it that you just can't see your true position? If you can trade the options, just assume that the database problem will be rectified in the future and that you have a true position on. Is...

Obviously what I said did not apply... please ignore me.

Not sure if this applies to what you are talking about but IB doesn't do markets that aren't electronic.