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Haha. So you don't know shi*t. Wow

LOL yes everything is negotiable, but TD won't match IB. Why won't you tell us your volume?

Must be at least 100 times here in the boards, people claim that they can match IB rates with TD, TOS, if they just negotiate and they have large volumes. I say Bullshit. They never say what volume they have. Short answer: IB options commission rates are far, far lower than TD's no...

Interactive Brokers for one. For desert of humble pie, OptionsXpress is another.

Uhhh... yes .... But that wasn't the point of my post

Sideshowbob, what the heck are you talking about? Who pays $300 to open up an IRA account? Optionsxpress, Schwab, any other brokerage, it is free. Have you opened an account since 1980?

Anyway, I know this is just venting now, but I think this is a pretty crappy way for IB to treat its customers. I only happened to see this charge just by chance while going over my tax records. IB never notified me of this charge when it occurred. Going through my emails, the only...

Crap, i missed all this. My IRA accounts were charged $7.50 each Jan 7th, 2011.

I use IE8 32 bit with java 32 bit and everything works fine on my 64 bit machine. Everything has to match. IE8 64 with Java 64 worked fine also for TWS, but Flash was buggy in this setup (other applications) so I went back to 32 bit. Once Flash truly has 64 bit support, I'll switch...

That may have been true pre 2008. In fact it was, as I easilly got my mortgage then. Today however, no bank will give you a mortgage without earned income at the lowest mortgage rates, To the OP, I highly reccomend getting the mortgage before quitting to trade full time.

Try this: Flip a coin with a friend. Each toss is a $1 bet. you start with $4, your friend starts with a $1,000. Let us know how much money you end up with.

Wow someyoungguy, you couldn't be further off the mark. Just get a lawyer and he does all the legal stuff for you, including the title search, deed change, etc... and all the legal stuff. Never heard of a mortgage company that requires you to have a real estate agent! I bought my first...

The funds were available today before opening bell so they were able to get it in in four business days, less than what they forecasted in the Funds Management section.

An ACH initiated at IB. My once a year IRA contribution. (I only do withdrawls from trading accounts :-)

If you had a Fixed, you'll be earning 15% on a CD while paying 5% on your mortgage

Below is the timeline of my latest deposit. IB notes that the money won't be available till March 12th, that's 6 business days from when I put in the deposit request. The money has already been withdrawn from my bank account as of today (March 8th) so I got 4 more business days to wait. I...

Wow, doing my taxes and I saw that Massachusetts charges 12% tax on short term gains! Holy crap! That's higher than any other state by a considerable margin. tax rates of other states (on the $50,001st dollar): Conn: 5% RI: 7% CA: 9.55% (largest I found after...

what if he had lost $60k at lightspeed? does it mean he can deduct 3k every year for the next 20 years? or is there a limit? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Well, if you never trade again, it would take 20 (19) years. But if you make $60K in investment...

what if he had lost $60k at lightspeed? does it mean he can deduct 3k every year for the next 20 years? or is there a limit? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Well, if you never trade again, it would take 20 (19) years. But if you make $60K in investment...

I'm looking for stocks to sell covered calls against. I just want to hold a position short term and make money mostly off the premium. I'm just looking for 36-60% of my portfolio a year. Dividends doesn't really matter to me. As long as the stock has a decent premium and ccan reach my 36-60% a...