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Where the hell did you pull that statistic from?

Their stock flat rate is $0.005/share with a $1 minimum transaction. So if you buy 50 shares you pay $1. If you buy 200, you pay $1. If you buy 300, you pay $1.50. There are other modifiers (if you use the API, etc), but that's the quick version. If you have a moderate sized account...

POT & BIDU can see some good moves during the day.

Just out of curiosity, why not just buy the call rather than the spread? I'm guessing it's an earnings play so theta won't ding you too much, you don't get much downside protection from the call anyway, and if they crush earnings, you'll be limiting your profits if it rockets to the upside.

1) You need to be careful to prove to yourself that this is a valid method and not just based on "data mining." For example, something like picking the presidency based on previous Super Bowl winners may appear promising, but has no actual connection to the results, so it's merely a coincidence...

Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees makes $27 million a year. There are 308,745,538 people in the US as of the 2010 census. If 308,745,538 people make $27 million per year, the USA economy would be 8 quadrillion dollars.

Um, if you actually read the article, the answer to your question sounds like "no". Also, the half-lives for both of those isotopes are quite short: Te-132 = 78 hours, I-131 = 8 days.

Awesome. Your threads are even better than the one where the guy dueled with the IB demo account market makers, so keep posting them. Also, I collect non sequiturs so, needless to say, I consider these threads the mother lode! P.S: Off to buy some Sterno to cook my evening meal and help beat...

Without arguing the validity of the "secret", 1) StockFetcher will do all the end of day scans for you, but not the intraday one. It's not free, but it's ridiculously cheap ($8.95 a month and maybe less than that if you do longer subscriptions). Based on its results, you could do a quick visual...

So I didn't quite have stones to buy ultra short term OTM calls to play the earnings announcement. Being a bit more conservative, I instead did a May 1/2 ratio backspread (short 335C x 1, long 350C x 2) which I entered yesterday morning for a $1.01 credit. My plan from the beginning was to...

It's been a few months since I've played with my code, so hopefully the cobwebs aren't too thick. The IB API requires orderIDs for orders as well as requests (market data, portfolio info, etc) but they are independent things. Once you use an ID# on an order, you can't re-use it on another order...

Can you get a good discount by coming in with cash? If not and you have the money, why not get something like a 5/1 ARM and make big extra payments so you pay it off even before you need to re-finance? This way you don't tie up all your cash in the house and have it available for emergencies...

Another alternative is NinjaTrader, which allows you to do strategy development/backtesting in C#. The help file is fairly well documented and their forum is also useful. If you are using something other than time-based charts (tick or volume), the TWS data feed will be less than useful...in...

From the TWS user manual: P&L: Displays gains or losses. To modify the P&L calculation used, right-click the field and select or deselect Include today's opening position in P&L calculation. Unrealized P&L: Calculates unrealized P&L for stocks, stock options and futures options...

P&L stands for Profit & Loss. It's the one you want to see only Green in across the board. :)

Anybody who has been on here for a little while takes those type of posts with a grain of salt. If the poster actually took the trade as first posted and then edited it for some reason to make it look like they did something else, it's sad, but who cares? It didn't cost or make me a dime.

On the ET forum, I would say the term "guru" is almost always used in a sarcastic and derisive manner, but you are picking someone who you feel actually has at some semblance of skill and is worthy of respect (I don't know much about him, myself). If you are intending to fade their methods...

Despite what you believe, you actually have a stop-loss in place. It is called your entire account balance.

If your short options are ITM at expiration you will be assigned. You can be assigned even if they are OTM. This is unlikely, especially for something like the QQQ, but it could happen (if somebody really wanted the shares for a dividend, for example, they might be willing to pay up a couple of...

I wouldn't do an April expiration on that 550/600 strangle either, since if the move doesn't materialize, time decay is going to chop a nice chunk of your position away. It's much safer to use May, even if it's going to cost you twice as much. If the move happens, you'll be more profitable with...