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Congratulations on your percentage return. May I ask why you chose Schwab over Interactive Brokers?

Buy a home for your family.

30%

That is not correct. You can be consistent but due to price impact stay with fixed position sizes yielding a linear profit curve instead of an exponential curve.

Why don't you open an account at IB which would solve both problems?

You are right and thank you for setting that straight. I am just wondering then why I received the message the second time I opened the IB app after having opened the app earlier on my walk: "Another session with the same user name already exists." At this point the latest login was through the...

When I close my laptop and open it again, the IB TWS is up and running again immediately. I do not need to login again. So I assume I can still be logged in, even though I have closed the laptop. However, what I find strange is the fact that I did not receive the message quoted above when I...

The "Audit trail" function only shows orders. Does anyone know a function where you can check when someone logged in and for instance the corresponding IP address?

But I did not receive the message the first time I logged in using the app on my phone after going for a walk leaving the closed laptop. I only received the message the second time, so I must have been logged out from my laptop when I closed it?

I close my laptop and go for a walk. I open the IB app on my phone in read-only mode. I walk for an hour and open the app again. I receive this message: “Another session with the same user name already exists. Click OK to disconnect the other session. Click Cancel to terminate this session.”...

I will admit she does not seem to manage losses very well...

My daughter is 20 months old. I am sure she would be able to recognize an H&S formation much the same way she is able to recognize a monkey, a zebra or an apple. (She is also able to recognize numbers, letters and selected words, but that are more advanced tasks.) You have to ask yourself...

The value of midday naps is vastly underestimated within the investment community. Especially among those of you residing within the ET zone.

However, as an active trader above a certain threshold, I assume the US-sourced interest, dividends, and capital gains will be perceived by the French tax authorities as business income generated in France and thus subject to regular French income tax rates.

How is a person actively trading taxed in France? I imagine taxes are sky high?

Thank you for pointing that out. “Collateral for Customer Borrowing” has its own section in IB’s default activity report. I assume the collateral is part of the cash position specified under Net Asset Value. I live in Europe. For one moment I worried that I would have to pay tax on the...

I had forgotten the progressive scale, so thank you for that. With regards to: "I'm pretty sure the interest on short sale proceeds is not inclusive of the short stock borrow fee." When you use the Short Stock (SLB) Availability Tool in the Support > Tools menu in Account Management and look...

Sorry for my ignorance. IB currently pays 1.42% on positive USD cash balances. When shorting stocks: Rebate rate reflects the combination of the collateral interest to be received by the borrower less the fee to be received by the lender. A negative rate reflects a net charge to the borrower...

Base rate fallacy. You read a host of complaints on ET against IB. You conclude IB is a shitty broker. I reach the opposite conclusion based on the same observation.