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Not sure if you are the real Mark Cuban but I agree that the chances of getting rich from trading are slim. Maybe 1 in a 1,000 will achieve that. It does however provide an opportunity for people to generate an alternative income stream to survive in these difficult times. Of course, the trader...

did not know about Alpaca

No. I subsequently spoke to my Intro Broker. He said the FCM I am at is solid.

CME has 66 clearing member firms. I have an account at one of those. Several years ago I was proactive in pulling out my $ just prior to the PFG Best collapse as well as the MF Global collapse. Food for thought.

Public sector Union leeches will end up starving with no more blood to suck

Time for NY, CA and IL to declare bankruptcy

You can do closing auction no problem. For opening auction it is on a best efforts basis. I ran side by side with IBKR for some time and the OPG fills were identical.

same at Fidelity. Price improvement on a good portion of trades.

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I was paying approx that same monthly amount at IBKR institutional. I asked them multiple times and they said it is what it is. So I moved almost all my money to Fidelity and Schwab where it is zero commission for all participants. If they want to keep their customer base, they need to wake up...

I've looked into that in the past. Cost prohibitive. Plus, investors are scared of putting their money in custody of an unknown private fund.

If somebody can reverse engineer it, they will do it 100% despite their assurances otherwise, even with legal documents signed. So I would say your option of leveraging it with OPM is out. Only possible scenario I see is you just keep it to yourself and grow it with whatever means you have at...

Exactly. My old parents have drunk the kool-aid of their financial advisor on this topic. They hold onto their 'safe' dividend paying stocks even during this downturn.

Apr. 17, 2020 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/we-are-probably-only-a-tenth-of-the-way-through-the-pandemic.html We are, finally, beginning to see some real plans from people with the power to enact them. On Tuesday, California governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a sort of road map for a...

and they will go back to multi-year drawdowns after this passes. Trend following CTAs are dead money.

does this seem a bit unbalanced?

it just freezes and will not start up.

under 'trade and orders' goto 'Trade Armor'. In Trade Armor, once you have a position on you can specify bracket orders for longs or shorts

Whatever investing/trading style you're comfortable with is what you should go with. But in my opinion, the returns should not be 'lumpy' if you are doing it to generate income. By lumpy I mean good over the long term but suffers down months, quarters or even years once in a while. To have it be...

I'm in a similar position. My business made some good $ over the past 12 years. But things are slowing down and my focus has now become how to live off the money I've got. I have a lot of years ahead of me (I'm in my late forties and healthy) - I could simply budget myself (and possibly my...