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Many of us on this forum can assure you that IB lets you trade a wide variety of instruments in your IRA. Assuming you testify to lots of experience, and sign (electronically) many waivers. The problem is probably not with the lawyers who came up with all those forms to cover IB's ass. The...

Does IB ever contemplate letting people convert all, or better still do partial rollovers, from traditional IRA to Roth IRA? What's so complicated about this? The only way to do it is pick some other broker, transfer your entire IRA to them, split it up or roll it over there, then transfer it...

I just bought GGDCH.X what are plus/minus vs. your GGDKH.X Just wondering about the basic differences between a November call and a March call. Looks like you can command 3x the leverage. Should be fun to listen to this http://wcdata.sun.com/webcast/archives/VIP-2166/ while...

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NEW YORK, October 3 (newratings.com) – Analyst Henning Wagener of AC Research initiates coverage of Google Inc (GOOG.NAS) with a "sell" rating. The 12-month target price is set to $290. > They say it is going to drop 8% in the next 12 months, really going out on a limb aren't they. In...

I am quoting from another thread. IB recently let you "simply change your IRA from "Cash" to "Margin". "Here is an extract from the IB announcement IRA Margin Accounts Now Available IRA Margin Accounts that allow you to immediately trade on your proceeds rather than having to wait for...

I have a belief that a certain company is going to release a revolutionary product within the next few months, and I further believe that this will be well received and drive up the price of their stock. If I want to put my money where my mouth is and speculate, actually gamble, on this, what is...

I'm not sure this came up in the preceding 19 pages of posts. The unfortunate OP found that in the final hours of that fateful Friday, the call option he owned, there were no bidders. Certainly the right answer is to click the famous button on IB's TWS screen to prevent the exchange from...

Warren Buffet on Derivatives Following are edited excerpts from the Berkshire Hathaway annual report for 2002. I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system. Basically these instruments call for money to change hands at some future date...