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My understanding, SIPC jump in in case broker failure. But if damage caused by identity theft, maybe nobody will help

IB's minimum is $10K and offer commission based on volume. Besides that, any difference IB treat its customers with different size? I think it might exists another good fit for people trading his own $500K money. That's the purpose. For example, I hope to get excellent hard to borrow...

According to the 1st qtr 2010 report, IB states that they have 140,000 customer accounts and over $16.7 billion in client assets, From wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Brokers No matter it is $17 or $30, the point is that Interactive brokers's customer assets is far...

Hi, Bob, Thank you for your help and posts today. I am not quite sure what your company do and how your company charge for your service as introducing broker and connect to ML. I notice the Merrill Lynch Edge on their website. What's difference between through introducing broker and through...

By doing some research, I found the following Merill Lynch : 2.2 trillion customer assets, they claim they are the largest broker Schwab: 1.7 trillion Fidelity: 1.5 trillion TD Ameritrade: 451 billion Interactive Brokers: 16.7 billion Look at the number, IB is only managing 1% of the...

By the way, is there any resource on the internet that show the size of the retail broker? Who is the biggest? I know TD Ameritrade is much larger than Interactive Brokers. List the bigger name than Interactive Brokers I know, but not sure who is the biggest Scottrade TD Ameritrade...

I just want to manage my own money. Have a secondary broker is a very good idea for not putting everything in one broker account. Just for security reason, for example, account is compromised by other people, bankruptcy of the broker. I think everyone should seriously consider identity...

Hi, Bob, Interesting to me. What is the main advantages to use Merrill compared to the Interactive Brokers? For example, some additional service that IB does not offer, and which is very important to an account greater than $500K? Thank you very much.

I am currently using Interactive Brokers. My individual account grows to $500K size now. I am thinking that different brokers specialize in different account size. My question is that in what level, should I consider to switch to another broker that have better support for that account size? For...

Hi, I want to have a easy way to track my multiple strategies, their performance. Currently I am using Interactive Brokers account and all the strategies are in one account. However, I do not know the exact performance for each strategy though the overall seems good. Do you know if IB has...

I just have a question about prop company that since prop company need to close trade daily, can I short any stocks for those hard borrowed shares? Personally, I am not interested in leverage, but just need to short those hard borrowed stocks. Hate to see no shares at Interactive Brokers. Thanks

I have around 30000 shares RINO at Interactive Brokers and want to sell. This is a pink sheets stock and according to IB's customer service, in grey market now. Interactive Brokers forward the order to NITE. However, NITE do not disseminate the quotes for RINO right now. So I think nobody can...

Hi, I am going to implement a scalp trading, and I think my current IB unbundled commission may be too high. I am thinking if any broker provide a fixed amount of commission for unlimited trading, for example $1000 per month, plus I can also get rebate if I provide liquidity and pay when I...

I am currently use IB for shorting. Since many stocks I want to short have no shares, I am thinking Thinkorswim since many people also recommend them for shorting. I just tried today several stocks not available on IB. It seems that thinkorswim showed HTB on all those stocks. So my...

I do not know the story of get commission from order flow. But at regular broker, I pay the commission, and get the rebate from offering liquidity.

Yes, I am thinking I cannot compete with big player in HFT. My strategy should be scalping with bigger spread as you said. If I am implementing this strategy, I guess I would pay $5000 commission to IB every month. That's why I am thinking if there is another alternative that I can reduce the...

I am also looking to implement a HFT strategy. I currently use interactive brokers and think the commission is too high. They charge $0.002/share for volume>300K. I am thinking connect to exchange directly and found a clearing house. But I do not know how to do it. For example, I checked...

I did not see any risk on him. People are still buying at $2 and he pay $0.2. Government is screening out most of the investors and benefit a small group. In addition, they are screwing small investors.

Like I found a gold mine. Any one knows how to participate such private placement?