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Pasternak, 1. Indeed, 150m pales compared to the billions in client money above the SIPC limit (and thus eligible for that insurance) that sits at IB. The insurance is nice to have, especially as it gives Lloyd's 150 million reasons to watch IB carefully, but in a real loss event might just pay...

I requested the option to have shares registered in my own name via a IB feature poll, back in 2011, in the wake of the MF Global fiasco. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fgeneral%2Fpoll%2Findex.php%3Fsid%3D7549 They declined to pursue this back then. I hope that they "get...

Right. But it's more complicated than that. You also have robots competing with other robots, and humans competing with other humans, that weigh different aspects of the press release differently and thus come to different conclusions. And then you have robots and humans that do not look at the...

all you need is to sign up to the right data package... http://financial.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/openweb/documents/pdf/financial/ultra-low-latency-news.pdf

Ponzi scheme bigger than Madoff; "you can't stop them"? That's easy. US entitlement programs and US treasury market.

Sorry to hear that. What happened? TWS bug? back end problem? Except once failing to trigger a limit order for an ASX stock (they apologised and said they had fixed the issue), I do not remember having any problems in years. What lately irks me however is their forced capping of orders. This...

they indeed changed that, as they noticed that only a third of all applicants survived the lengthy account signup process. (info from IB Q3.15 CC transcript) now, as soon as you entered your email, you get a paper trading account that showcases all IB features, and that you are able to keep...

IB is really getting better with their ads. The setting makes a boring conversation funny.

I am not saying you are wrong, but you haven't really replied to my post. We can debate anything, health care, taxes etc. But why not keep it on topic for a while? Let's assume you went on a great 2-week vacation to South America, putting the cost on your credit card. Now you are back home...

1) Maybe you are equating QE with the whole crisis response? Of all the emergency measures, ZIRP, bank bailouts, TARP and all the other lender of last resort programs even to companies like GE, and the massive fiscal deficits during the recession, even the Fed thinks that QE had by far the...

How can they fool themselves into believing that QE has been a success (and thus demand more of it) before they have even start to run off the purchased MBS and bond holdings? Maybe all QE did is pull forward demand? It's like a cyclist who starts at the top of the mountain, taking the easy...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/help-my-short-position-got-crushed-and-now-i-owe-e-trade-10644556-2015-11-19?siteid=yhoof2 now that's a story! Martin Shkreli involved, too

Being honest with yourself is the first step of sound career planning. Looks to me like you are; maybe even a bit too negative on yourself. The second step is correct information on all your available options. Therefore, keep reading about trading/ investing. Try to learn from books when you...

I'd say it's priceless. Have used it for many years without problems, and have been impressed with it. Haven't done any side by side comparison with other data, though. I don't use it anymore because I discontinued the strategy that needed it. A site I recently came across is Quandl, a data...

Prices are not adjusted intraday. That means that from the relationship of adj. close to close, you can calculate your own adj. OHL. The bigger problem using Y Finance (for backtesting at least) is that they tend to delete inactive tickers. I looked around a couple of months ago and found no...

This seems such an easy and clear case of manipulative intent, yet the SEC still does these "neither admit nor deny" settlement deals, instead of trying to convince a judge and jury to put them behind bars. And they even issue a press release as if they were proud of it. I do not understand this.

This is what I wrote back then requesting this feature: ------------------------------- At present, accounts above the SIPC limit (500k) are not fully protected in the event of a simultaneous IB bankruptcy and underfunding of segregated accounts versus claims, since the Lloyd's excess SIPC...

My own guess is that maybe 5 billion USD of client assets at IB are above the SIPC limit. So the insurance of max. 150m is indeed insufficient. Holding securities (stocks, bonds whatever) instead of cash would help your recovery rate a bit, but you'd still suffer losses as those securities are...

OP: The likely reason why they ask you to open new account: In Brazil, you opened an account directly with the US IB LLC, while in Europe their licensed broker is IB UK. So european accounts are opened through IB UK (even though your money eventually ends up at IB LLC too). Regarding other...

article coherently argues they were caused by "broken HFT models that were unloading positions without regard to price or fair value." http://www.etf.com/sections/blog/understanding-etf-flash-crashes?nopaging=1