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In general IB is reliable and their fees are very low. Over the last couple of years I can only remember once where I had an issue connecting and executing trades. I also like the ability to use their API and create my own front-end.

My question wasn't related to reporting requirements. If you're in a country other than the US and a broker in that country offers accounts that provide access to the US market, where you're from originally is a secondary concern, I would think. There will always be reporting requirements...

Why does being American matter? I'm Canadian and trade US stocks all the time using IB.

I see Republic of Korea on the IB open account page. This would be worth looking into.

When they expire on Dec 31st that's a deemed disposition at $0. This would be a capital loss on your 2022 tax return. If you want to realize the loss in 2021 sell on Dec 30th or before.

TOS supports RTD which you can use to get realtime data into Excel using the RTD() function. I don't think this function is available in Google sheets since it's cloud based. It is possible to get a custom value via RTD. When you copy and paste the data from TOS is will assign a custom name to...

Plotting this on a linear scale is deceiving. To put the move into perspective you need to set the vertical axis to logarithmic. Absolute moves are meaningless when comparing to historical moves.

For the Nasdaq 100 it looks like AAPL traded over 7B shares on 9/29/2000

Ticker symbol changed to MLKN

Not if you're simulating the data.

I'm not sure this is bad data. When I look at the data on the Thinkorswim platform they don't have an implied volatility assigned to this contract either.

You want a market order with time-in-force set to OPG (opening). You need to enter this order a few minutes before the open (NYSE and Nasdaq have slightly different rules for their auctions so it would be a good idea to review their documentation). I've never had an MOO order not fill. You...

BOIL is leveraged and KOLD is an inverse fund. These aren't included in the list.

There is a good screener built into Thinkorswim (called Scan in the UI). Very configurable and operates on real-time data.

The close values can be calculated by applying the daily change to the previous close. The open is random but can be simulated statistically by looking at the average and standard deviation of the open vs. previous close for the reference (UPRO). You can do this easily in Excel using the...

This may help: https://teddykoker.com/2019/04/simulating-historical-performance-of-leveraged-etfs-in-python/ Even if you don't know Python, you can look at the equations to get the basic gist of what he's doing. To summarize what he's doing to calculate the leveraged return: 1) The % daily...

I buy my list from a company called Siblis Research. Not expensive and clean data in my experience. https://siblisresearch.com/data-services-pricing/

Initial capital amount doesn't matter since it's all relative. What you're interested in is the ratio of the final amount to the initial amount.

IB paper trading does not simulate MKT OPG orders properly. I've never had a live MKT OPG trade not fill (unless it's a buy order and there's insufficient buying power).

There was significant volume in the pre-market once BBBY announced earnings (7:45am). Between about 8:45 and 9:29 average volume was about 90,000 shares per minute. On a typical day BBBY only trades about 8,000 shares per minute during regular trading hours.