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Thanks for posting! Haha, I love the testimonial line where the guy has been able to support himself ... since October 2009!

Hasn't this been discussed to death already? Yeah, you might be earning 0.5%, but you have to put up at least 20% of underlying to purchase the future. Since presumably you're making (or at least have aspirations of making) more than 0.5% a year, this really seems like a Fail.

Where do they offer drefus money funds in IB?

I like it so far. It works with Advisor Accounts! Easy to switch bewteen accounts. I wish the portfolio page could be customized to show P&L information instead of just market value.

Thanks, but then it's no longer idle cash, right?, It's going fully against your margin like any stock or ETF. It's a good idea, but by doing this, you're reducing your investing capital, so you're not really earning extra cash on interest, you're just reducing potential investment...

Is it possible to directly trade BXM, the CBOE Buy Write Index?

Anyone else with an Advisor Account having a problem with the account window when switching between accounts?

Another vote for the card. I sent back the key chain device and am glad I did. Put the card in your wallet and you're done with it.

Ha! same thing happened to me today! It was the first time I've tried the IB alarm. In my case, I think it happened because I set the alarm from the portfolio page and i didn't have the "Show zero value position" clicked so the stock line (and thus the alarm) disapeared after a set period of...

*IB specializes in making the simple impossible. What is everyday simple at any other broker is doomsday impossible at IB.* LOL That is so true! Ask something you think is complicated and their customer service comes trough spectacularly, much better than any other broker IMO, but things...

anyone know how to get a quote for preferred stock in the bloomberg app? For example, how can I get a quote for mer.pd?

Wait a sec. If he just started trading, I doubt he registered himself as a Trader. And I don't think he's required to call himself a trader when he does file his taxes, so any investment income would not be considered "Earned Income" As such, there shouldn't be anything quarterly to pay...

I guess where I was going with this was when I read the $200K cash example above. If you invested $50K in T-Bills, you would still have $150K in cash left where you would earn IB interest on $140K and earn nothing on $10K. In order to earn money on the $10K which is the entire point of this...

Even investing in treasury bills / notes, wouldn't you still have the same basic problem where your last $10K will still earn $0? You would have to continually monitor your accounts to have your entire cash invested in T-bills to get full interest? Currently t-bills are yielding around 1.6%...

Thanks cabletrader. I meant the Euro Index (I wrote ETF by mistake). In the AOL website, it is $XDE.FX. I found another symbol that tracks the Euro, FXE, (Currency Shares Euro Trust.) Yahoo does have historical information on this so I ran the numbers through and calculated Beta and...

Anyone know where I can find the Beta (Equity eg. vrs SP500) for an ETF like US DOLLAR SETTLED CURRENCY EURO (XDE). I wanted to try calculating it myself, but I couldn't find historical prices for XDE on Yahoo. I'm trying to see what the historical relationship is between the Euro and S&P...

Wow another blanket statement with no support! You're not looking very hard! It's the same answer I gave when my son asked me why the sky is blue! PM is not very difficult. I model my PM with OX all the time so that I can understand it. I have compared IB's directly with OptionsXpress...

Seriously, do you care to back up this statement? How is the PM better at TOS than it is at IB?

IB has better executions, better commissions and better interest paid than Think or Swim. TOS is prettier though. Since money is more important to me than beauty, I go with IB.

IB has better executions, better commissions and better interest paid than Think or Swim. TOS is prettier though. Since money is more important to me than beauty, I go with IB.