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The first two are fine, they activate the brackets incrementally on partial fills and update the size as the parent continues to fill. If the parent hasn’t filled at all and gets canceled, the bracket does too. I think you can make the bracket whatever types of order you want, separate from...

OTC Link is a fairly new exchange for trading otc stocks, while the vast majority of volume is done through market makers. IB execution has suffered since they started sending most of their orders to this new exchange. I don’t know if the market makers don’t want to take orders from IB or if...

26.8% for 60/40 at 37%/20% max Fed rates, plus 3.8% Obamacare + 13.3% max CA = 43.9%, ignoring any state tax deduction at the margins under the new tax law. Top CA rates kick in around $1M. Remember most of these are marginal rates, so you’ll lose nearly half the $1Mth dollar, but the earlier...

Hard to know the value without the stock and it’s volatility. If it’s a US stock, you can PM me and I’ll take a look.

If he could only manage to make 0.5%/day with a full intraday lookback option, he wasn’t trying very hard.

You mean charge you several hundred dollars for the privilege of preparing the 990T tax return for your IRA, and then sending the IRS a check from the IRA account. I checked a few of those K1 samples and there are over a dozen 20V entries showing different sources of UBTI. Getting above my pay...

Check out their IR: https://ir.blackstone.com/investors/tax-and-distributions/default.aspx You can’t be sure what will be on this years K1, but you can look at the prior year samples and get a pretty good idea.

Well, apparently the trades were net $1M positive before commissions. That’s a lot better than I’d expect from this type of situation.

You may need to check your L2 market data subscriptions. Also, try closing and reopening the window if you just recently subscribed to the booster.

TOS L2s work the same for stocks and options, no issue with watching several of equity L2s.

TOS will show lots of L2 windows.

Read IBs description on this here. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=14193&ns=T#market-data-fees The number of symbols that can be viewed simultaneously via the TWS deep book windows (including BookTrader, Market Depth and ISW) is determined as follows: one unique symbol for...

MMs have an exception, of course. They can naked short and cover a week or so later without issues. If they hold the short long enough, they need a borrow or to cover.

TWS latest stable updated to 972.1p overnight. After several rounds where everything went smoothly, this resulted in a few glitches that I noticed and possibly others I haven’t yet. For example, 1. a few of my custom hot keys were wrong and I had to re-record them (after which they were...

Cash secured short puts have limited downside, so they should in principle be allowed if you have enough cash in the UTMA account. I'd keep calling brokers to see if you can find out that allows this level of options activity. UTMA accounts are often treat like IRAs, so some options activity...

Here’s a review of the CA rules http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Licensees/Broker-Dealer_and_SEC_Investment_Advisers/State_IA.asp Looks like there’s only a de minimus exception (6 clients) for people registered in their states.

Ok, well I don't know as much about options. For stocks, the only times I recall green status live orders not being sent out to the exchanges as I expected were due to a price cap issue, so they went out but at a less aggressive limit price than I specified. You get a warning (actually lots of...

You can tell if your limit order is live in TWS by seeing it with a bright green status. If it’s dark blue instead, it’s being held by TWS and may execute only when marketable or maybe not at all. This can happen if you screwed up your order configuration options, such as requesting something...

It is a common complaint and I’m sure IB has decided for business or compliance reasons to maintain this policy despite making some customers, including myself, unhappy from being unable to take advantage and lost opportunities in volatile markets. Yes, you can call in or make a chat request to...

This is not a Monty Hall problem. Without knowing the distribution from which the numbers have been drawn from (or from a distribution of possible distributions), it’s very difficult to say much in general. For example, if the three numbers are unique integers 1,2,3, your strategy should be...