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Interactive brokers is the best of the canadian options, the only other one I would choose would be power etrade. I like ibs commissions but ok there short list sometimes bug me, but they provide the best technology and fills. If your trading equities and options choose interactive brokers...

I was wondering what you guys think, I have several accounts, and I use fullservice broker, todo locates, they would call desks, other brokers if they have hard to find stocks, but if the stocks easy to find, i would use my online or direct access broker, which is IB if your wondering. Do you...

so what do you guys think of streetaccount is it worth the cost or its just trash. thanks guys

How come there arent many pacifac northwest trader's conventions. I know there are alot traders in British Columbia and washington state. There should be a conference highlighting the west coast lifestyle of traders and investors and have a big get together.

Over the years Ive heard the name Don Bright and bright trading in the prop trading world. Im not a prop trader thought, however his names pop up sometimes on messages like ET, or in trader conventions, or sometimes when people are comparing Swift Trade or Genesis. So what are people's opinion...

lol, save your energy for the good ones, not the sick ones :D

thats funny in canada, we think the americans own the open waterways between vacouver island to alaska. Its true, when canadians sued to prevent americans from using nuclear subs entering the strait, which is canadian territory, the us government threatened to annexed the strait as american...

well its always the same, first it was the irish, then the slavs, now the chinese and everybody else. I bet alot of people who dont like the immigration increase has little todo with jobs and more todo with race. Alot of those people wouldnt be protesting that much if they were all wasps and...

lol you wouldnt have a problem if they were all white anglosaxon protestants, from merry old england would you ;D, not saying your racist or anything

well if you have a loss you can just mark to market it, but thats in canada so I dont know, also if your canadian its considered the same as going long if your short, and your tax the same. In canada we dont count it, till we close our short position, or you mark to market it.

I would have to say the worst analysts I have ever seen are all the analysts that cover delta airlines. They are horrible. It took them over 2 days to realize that when delta cut fares by 50%. it was negative. Geez and that guy at canlyon securities, is the absolutely stupid and moronic. He...

well no, but sometimes the guy acts shocked that when he says stuff about a stock it moves. Thats just wrong, I remember when he use to rail on news guys for doing that. Endlessly railing, spending a week, just pummeling news guys for mentioning stuff about a stock, and moving it. how times...

I use 2 serparte dlink reuters. However I have shaw cable extreme which gives me 7.5MB and telus dsl networking 2.5 MB just in case. If your using cable, ask for the new extreme cable

well it depends, how many classes are you taking the first semester. If your taking 5-6 classes, I would say maybe you should stick with swing trading, or get wireless trading apparatus so you wont skip classes. If your paying 600 a class not including books, and its only availble once a year...

I have alot of brokerage accounts, and its been a real hassle lately just to log into all of the acccounts. I get tons of statement letters every month, and its just been getting crazy. I was really considering switching to a prime account, and consolidate all of my accounts, and my managed...

well when you do US trades, your trades are quoted in US dollars. So if the flat rate is 29$ for a trade, its going tobe 29$ canadian for a canadian stock trade, or its going tobe 29$ american for an us stock trade. Canadian brokerages as I heard it like to charge higher fees because they say...

Isnt it true that the same retail brokerages in Canada, that has the same operations in the US rip canadian off on commissions. There is no reasonable explanation that TDWATERhouse canada has commissions 50% higher then the US counterparts. Especially if you can open an account in the US side...

I remember a Goldman Saks research report, showing that everytime the sauds said that they would increase oil prodution, they failed to increase, the chart was for a year and half, in fact production was left the same. if somebody has that chart please post. I think if the sauds fail to show...

Hey heres a reason why oil could be so strong. If you knew saudi oil production was at the limit, and that during the second half of the year, it will show for the first timem saudi oil would start falling, wouldnt you be buying oil futures like crazy. This could be a huge explanation why oil...

Cramer makes good calls but he also makes bad calls. The genius in cramer is that he has always had a guy or woman in his case that would say cramer your wrong, and heres why. Your getting to bullish again cramer. It was his wife that always brought him down a bit, and explains the...