This thread got me curious so i did a transaction count for the
past several months. I dont trade every day. All executions done via smart rt.
ISLND .... 402
NYSE ..... 150
TIMBR .... 103
BRUT ..... 28
A few more exec. on ARCA, SUPERS, ....
... rj
Martin .... thnx for the correction re shrt cash interest. During the Jan to March period i carried shrt positions often overnite. IB made interest payments each day on my total cash bal. That was
very nice indeed!!! I wonder if they made a mistake. The interest on cash bal explanation from the...
Try entering with only a few shares, like 20, 30 or 50 at most.
Much less stress while learning. with a broker like IB the cost
is minimal and worth paying while getting experience. One should probably not do this with thinly traded stks.
... rj
StockGirl .... Often SNDK will often have lots of quick turns intraday with volume 3 to 10 mil shs a day. CTX and some of the other homebuilder stks can present some action intraday also. Right now they are especially sensitive to econ news.
...rj
Probably several reasons including the sh price difference.
For last Friday....
Calculating percentages comparing price chg to open price for each stk ...... Goog = 0.36% change and Intc = 1.66%.
So actually, percentage wise, Intc fluctuated more than 4 times Goog! For Goog to get the 1.66%...