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The pre-iOS7 version worked fine on iOS7 except that some popup boxes had no visible text. An update (6.7.1) just came out that fixes that. This morning, I found that, on 6.7.1, from the Add Contract->Select Contract->Options page, no options can be found for any of the stocks I tried, such...

There could be a dividend coming, or the option could represent something other than 100 shares of the company (maybe there's going to be a spinoff), or it's a very thinly traded option and the trade price you see could be days or weeks old. If you tell us the real ticker, we could help more.

Given that spot VIX is around 30% above where it should be for a market at this level, VXX is an even better candidate for shorting than usual. For the next day or two, though, spot VIX may be influenced by the soon-to-expire September VIX futures, so I wouldn't make any directional bets until...

Ameritrade is turning off Streamer/Command Center later this week. I'm looking for some charting package that can show real-time bid/ask/trade with 10 second bars or even tick-by-tick values. Thinkorswim charts, as far as I can tell, can have bar size no shorter than 1 minute, and can show trade...

My computer runs Linux, so direct support for these USB display devices isn't there, but I can run Windows under vmware or virtualbox and they can access any USB device. Has anyone tried this? I wonder whether it will be responsive enough.

May want to get opto-isolators for those cables that go outside.

Can TDA do anything to stop it from running? My impression was that it runs on your PC and only contacts TDA's servers to determine if you have a minimally funded account there so that banner ads can be turned off. The TDA Streamer data feed may be turned off in the next few days since...

Covered calls ought to be, in general, ATM or OTM. You want the call to expire worthless. Selling covered calls that are 7% ITM, as in your example, and have only a couple days until expiration won't give you a whole lot of premium, and the spread and commissions may completely negate any...

Mr. Dell has put another offer on the table: $13.75 if the committee changes the voting rules such that only a majority of those voting at the special meeting or by proxy need to vote yes for the buyout (the current rule, and to be honest I thought this was the case for every buyout everywhere...

Thank you very much - works fine.

If the S&P can go up 9 handles even when GOOG and MSFT fall big, there's little reason to short the market. Wait until there are signs of large cap stocks falling on no news. (This may not happen for another month or two.)

It is for the benefit of the brokers. As FINRA says, "The majority of firms felt that in order to take on the increased intra-day risk associated with day trading, they wanted a $25,000 "cushion" in each account in which day trading occurred." The original text of the rule, IIRC, bemoaned the...

Here's a fun thing to try: go to the web sites where you have accounts and try to login using just the first 8 characters of your password. If they're using old UNIX encryption, that's all that they keep track of. "manhattan2newrochelle435" doesn't turn out to be nearly as unique as you think.

Even when quotes for ES aren't available, can't you still trade it as long as the exchange is open? You can get real-time quotes for free by opening a small account at ToS.

Starting around 2 weeks ago, TWS Latest launched from a browser has the following chart buglets: (800x600 window, 1 day/1 min candlesticks, outside RTH is NOT checked) - candlestick bodies are only 1 pixel wide. Used to be 3 pixels wide. The width can adjusted on windows with a smaller...

I know that open option positions are carried over when a stock gets delisted and moves to the OTCBB, and that they can still be closed. But can one still initiate option positions after a stock moves to the OTCBB?

The broker almost certainly doesn't deserve that high a cut, but you're paying him to get you out if the market dives. He watches it so you don't have to. The important thing is to be in the market and not to let your mony erode in a zero percent savings account. If it means buying a S&P 500...

Seniors should be in the stock market. There is no reason for them not to be, even if they have to go through a broker that's going to get them into 5% front-loaded mutual funds that only do as well as the S&P 500. My father was buying and selling stocks as an individual investor from his 30's...

Who determines what "wisely" means? If I'm a farmer and the government pays me to leave a field fallow or puts a floor on the price of a crop, I think that's a wise thing because I have less work to do and the crops I do grow fetch a higher price.

States have a right to govern what goes on in their jurisdiction. If NY wants to impose a tax on soda, it shouldn't matter which factory or bottler or dealer or warehouse or overnight refrigerated truck stop the soda originated in or passed through on its way to the NY resident who is going to...