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A LOT OF MISS INFORMATION ON THIS BOARD. State taxes are tricky. State laws are different, so what is the right law in one state can be wrong in the next. As an formerly practicing California CPA i can only speak to california rules. If you work in california and live in another state...

Don, I had one short, CL - made .06 on it. 5 longs and got hammer on one. Held a couple for an hour plus and turned big losses into winners. I should of sold fast on the way down and just got lucky. I made .21 cents on WMT and held it for 2 hours. Anyone with any feedback on how they...

placed my buy on citi too low and did not get a fill. Always careful with the newsie stocks. 2 winners out of 3 fills, net gain .37. Held BP to long but got out before it tanked to bad. The other big oils were doing better than BP so i did not cash in when i had a gain. BP then droped and...

Never use market on open orders for a nasdaq stock. IB gained no profit from your trade, they have no reason to compensate you. THey sent out a market order at 9:30 and the best price was at island, which is what u wanted. We have all learned these lessons, most of my lessons cost me...

Had 5 fills, all long, and had 4 winners. My only loser was GE, a .05 loss. Sold the four winners to soon, if i had held two minutes longer it would have been a big day. Missed getting a fill on MRK by a dime.

Count me as a satisfied IB customer. I am also a satisfied Tradestation and Datek customer as well. So much of what has been posted about IB is just bs. with IB you have to do everything their way. You call with a question or need something, they tell u that u have to e mail this person that...

go to account login, not trade login. If you do not have a universal account you need to upgrade your account type. I believe you then need to change your trading permissions. With IB i have often felt when i call them its like they don't want you to trade with them. But the price is right...

IB has open only orders. I have an account at IB and only on one day have my orders that should have been filled not been executed. I have been checking every day since and IB is working just fine. "He has helped considerably by allowing me the opportunity to show some restraint and common...

I had my open order at IB to buy C at $35.75 and did not get a fill. I check all my opening order for 8/21/2 and i should of had a fill on PFE and SBC but gone none. I did get a fill on HD so some orders did go through. This really make me wonder what is going on and why. anyone with ideas...

Over the 4 months that i have been a tradestation customer i have not had one crash or slow data. Never had long hold times or rude customer service. Some customer service personnel have very little knowledge about tradestation or even a general knowledge about trading, But they have never...

I haven't heard as much bitching and whining as your post in a while. There is a good conversation about a very relevant topic and u through out a garbage post that contributes nothing.

Funny how this works, I made money on sbc twice this month with no losers. I have several times considered removing stocks with news from the opening but have not yet. The news stocks tend to be big moves. So every time i have a loser i think about removing stock that reported earnings or...

no profitable trades on the open. It is the first time ever that every trade was a loser for me. I only wish i could say that i managed it well, but i made every mistake i could . A good day or week will make up for it and i learned a lot today. The good days are easy with the openings...

IB is just about never down, i can't recall one time it was down in the last month. Sometime, during the first few minutes of trading or if there is a surge in volume, quotes will freeze for a few second, but orders seem to go thru fine during these episodes.

I see little reason to have an account at brown. I closed my account there not to long ago. Interactive brokers at $1 per hundred share will save most people money and IB pays about 3 times higher interest if you have over 10,000. I have an account at datek if i want to trade 5,000 share for...

Thanks for the post. Well written and informative. From what I have heard you could charge about $3,000 for that at a seminar. I can relate to what u wrote. As someone that has been a very active investor for many years and daytraded by design infrequently but only when I thought it was a...

My opinion for investing is that TA only works in short-term and if no new news comes out, like losing FDA approval puts TA to waste . 2 years 5 years 10 years TA is worthless. A company with high debt, no competitive advantage in an industry with low barriers to entry or many competitors...

Some great posts Darkhorse. TA is worthless in the long-term or if big news comes out and value in the short-term often has little correlation to the stock price. ps. Cool song u quoted. I always wondered what some of those lyrics really where, I thought it was earth bound distant, but that...