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IB will prevent you from making that fourth trade. I guess they don't have to do that, but if they let you make a fourth trade, then they have to freeze your account for 90 days after you do so. At least that's my take on it.

I am a seaman.

What's wrong with being unprofessional? I am not a professional. At least not yet. Why? I seem to be doing better trading than the average newbie who follows that advice, and a lot better than I do at Harrah's. Yeah I know. Good idea. Working on that, only $20k to go. I would already have it...

Interesting. But I am still just getting started learning to trade stocks. I am kind of a one thing at a time guy. Well, maybe I will pick up a couple of "futures for dummies" type books. So thanks for the tip.

I'll start. Newbies and small traders, don't trade live just to be trading live, if it will prevent you from trading live when you NEED to be trading live. We need to be ready to put money on the table when the game looks good. Sucks to remember how just a couple days ago you lost or made chump...

Sometimes it IS easy. My first day was easy. I started with a $10k account. Made almost $900 first day even with PDT limitation. A month and a half later, I am hovering down around $9900. Well, I did use the IB debit card a time or two, TBH. Anyway I need another one of those easy days and I...

Most people don't realize how vulnerable a WinDOHs system is, even the professional IT guys. It is even built right in to the EULA, if you read it. MS has complete control over your system. They can change ANYTHING THEY WANT on your system including your personal files unless encrypted by a...

Just a newbie here but I agree. Customer service is important but not as important as low commissions and fast execution and good routing and spreads. So far I am doing okay with IB though honestly I don't have any experience to compare it to. And since I am a Linux user, my only other choice is...

Thanks. I hadn't thought about stop adjust. I have just been clicking and dragging it up on the chart, according to how the chart is looking. A 1% increase hotkey sounds like a good idea.

Yeah, I get that. I just wanted to be a bit more organized and efficient.

Still setting up my trading platform for IB. New trader, intraday & stocks only. Maybe there is a list of common HotKeys somewhere? Thanks.

LOL Yeah. Well it was my first live trade and I wanted to keep it pretty tight. At least I didn't set a trailing stop haha. I moved it up once, too, to lock in some profit, but left it pretty loose.

Keeping my account details to myself for the moment. But there are only two, unless you go with webware. Only TOS and TWS support Linux AFAIK. I may post a screenshot or two if I get a day like that again. But I'll give you this... TradingView helped me find the stock. I selected the "Unusual...

Yeah I know. I couldn't believe how that one was moving. I won't have another trading day until next week. I honestly would be delighted to just post a tiny profit and not a loss, TBH. I might do some paper trades tomorrow if I get bored or if I get some ideas or read some interesting stuff.

Yeah I know. I can do one more and that's it for a week. I won't bother. I got a ton of books to read. And projects to do in the shop and on the boats and the house etc. I will just wait a week and start with a blank slate. Later this year I can fully fund the account and hopefully have some...

ABIO treated me good on my first day of live trading. Honestly, I just hoped to make $20 or $30 my first day playing with real money. I have done well paper trading, but this was for real, and by anybody's standards I was not ready to go live yet, and I knew it, but I figured I still had a...

It is likely a Flash problem. Ubuntu doesn't need drivers for most common hardware. Nor codecs, usually.

That's interesting. Thanks again!

So there is a big difference between a margin account and a cash account. Why would you want to open a cash account instead of a margin account? After all, you don't HAVE to trade on margin simply because you can, right? Would this be due to poor credit or bad history with the brokerage holding...

Oh okay got it. Thanks for that. But one more noob question: Cash account, as opposed to...?