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what are the chances FDIC wont be able to honor the insurance policy for < $100,000. i have money in WM and I know it is likely to go down. should i "trust" the fdic will give me my money back when WM fails.

I used a market order on 20 different stocks at around 12:59:45 PM on the west coast, or 15 seconds before the market closed. The Time In Force used is "day" and parameter "sweep to fill" was also on. Almost all of my fills were 1/4 to 1 pct away from the market price. For example, HON...

Thanks for the replies. I've changed over to unbundled. I'm pretty incompetent at these things. NASDAQ stocks look pretty expensive to trade.

I couldn't figure out what an island NASDAQ fee is. Can anyone help? I have averaged about 3.2 million shares per month for the last 5.5 month since I've started using IB. So pretty much if I switch to Unbundled, I will get to pay 0.002 + exchange fees instead of 0.005. In the examples...

What are the chances that countrywide will pull an Indymac here? I really want to pull my CDs (for sum greater than FDIC insured) after the recent failures of Indymac. My CDs expire on 09/10. Pull them out now, or later?

I have a certificate of deposit for ~$167,000 with them. I just got a notice on 06/03/08, it says the account will automatically renew on 07.02/08. I have not responded to their notice. How much will I get back? I will call first thing Monday, but anyway know the chances I will get back...

good now see how it did in forward testing in 2008

NO, but i always have an idea.

Been trading seriously over a year and a half now, have made it a full time job. It just isn't fun as it used to be. I don't even get excited watching the markets open. Social life is deteriorating. The everyday grind is overbearing. I don't have energy / motivation left to go out, like...

guys dont be manipulated by this pumper

How are people getting deductions over 15000? The only big deduction item I can think of is Tradestation, which is only 3-4000 a year.

I have the same experience. Has problem importing large amounts of data.

how much are you deducting on this year's schedule C

Nice list. You must be up boatloads.

From my ameritrade acct: Short Term Sales 94,824,988.46 via gainskeeper. Importing trades into tradeslog, my Total sales is 94,975,928.31 which is exactly equal the the gross proceeds reported to the IRS on the form 1099. Needless to say, the Actual G/L is different as well. Anyone...

sorry i didnt make it clear. tdameritrade doesn't update margin on a real time basis. you only have a certain amount of buying power per day, and if you use it up, you cannot make any more daytrades. with IB, theoretically, you can make infinite number of daytrades as long as you are not over...

it would be a problem on the days your stock doesnt move.

yEAH 4 to 1 intraday margins, you can buy and sell an amount equal to your account value 4 times, or less if you carry margin overnight. but everytime you make a trade, the "day trading buying power" goes down, until it is 0, then you cannot buy and sell anymore. so it is not possible...

the way they calculate margin does not favor day traders. if you use your whole account to long spy, then sell it 5 minutes later, you can only buy spy one more time that day before you run out of margin. the margin is not calculated realtime like IB/ scottrade.

you are too optimistic. do more testing, 10 days mean nothing.