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    Open Letter to Interactive Brokers

    Like, wow. That is way less than what I'm now paying (maybe I shouldn't say that too loud?). Thanks.
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    Open Letter to Interactive Brokers

    I do about 5-10 trades a month, don't need an API capable of handling automated trading, but I do keep a large margin balance relative to my actual cash a lot of the time, so margin rates are important to me. My balance is less than 100k. I looked on IB's site and couldn't figure out what my...
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    Borrowing from 401k?

    I'm not sure I would ever do this, but I did do the following: take the rollover piece of my 401(k) and put it in a brokerage account in an IRA. I only discovered I could do this a little while ago. The rollover piece was very small, in comparison to the rest of my account, but it still meant...
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    Can't short to save my life

    Omigod. That is perfect.
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    Can't short to save my life

    Thanks for the tip. I was looking at IB, but CyberTrader looks like it might be a good one too. One question: IB answered my question to them with a list of shortable stocks they had available, amongst which was FXI, but not NYX. Is there a place on CyberTrader for getting a complete list of...
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    Can't short to save my life

    At the broker I'm with now, I have been repeatedly rebuffed on attempts to short NYX and FXI. Anyone else have trouble shorting? Any recommendations as to where to trade with where this won't be a problem, or will be minimal at least?
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