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they are too busy mulling over why their stock price plunged 25% in one day

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Person 1 with IB - buy market Person 2 with Scottrade - buy market Person 3 sell limit 42.5 Person 4 sell limit 42.6 Guess who gets 42.5? Yup, person 2 with scottrade. Guess who gets 42.6? Person 1 with IB. This makes the opening range from 42.5-42.6. With IB, you will get the wrong end...

Please don't act superior when it is obvious you don't know what I'm talking about. MS opened today from a range of 42.40 to 42.63, in the first minute. If I shorted using IB, I would without a doubt get the lowest price of the range. If I bought with IB, I would without a doubt get the...

Anyone else getting horribly bad fills at the open, when buying/shorting on IB? If I buy , I will get the filled at the high of the 1 min bar from 6:30 to 6:31, and if I short, I will get the low of that same bar. 5/5 today. Is this normal? I have been getting way better fills with...

what on earth does this mean? how does it usually effect a stock?

First time user of IB here, anyone know how to make it so it is not greyed out? Couldn't find it in any help threads. Thanks

just want to get a feel how many positions others have on at one time.... i use to have around 30 positions, now i typically hold around 15 positions overnight, and during the day this number tend to go up to around 20, as i use margin. i have a friend, he uses 1/4 of his acct value for...

how many positions do you usually have on at one time?

can someone explain what this thread is all about

HI GNOME thanks for taking the time to post. how many positions do you have on average at one time ? with that much money, do you divide a position in to blocks and slowly accumulate some shares over the day or or is liquidity not an issue?

coming in to tax season, it is important that we figure out which items are tax deductible and which aren't... two things i can think of right now are commissions, and margin interest. has anyone included these items as tax deductibles in the past year?

Please remove this post if it belongs in another forum. The question is, what kind of performance is generally good enough to attract capital for someone looking to start a hedge fund. Of course, this depends on many things, but let's say a person manages to return 100%+ per year over a...

Anyone know why the futures are up roughly 1 pct overnight... Nikkei down, hanseng down, it doesn't make sense.

This is exactly what you will see at market bottoms - when all the small money speculators are bearish - the perfect time to go long, looking forward 1 to 3 month. People always give reasons why the market will not go up this time, as they did in August, Feb, 2006, 2005, 2004, and so on. It...

Can someone explain why the spy is down 0.28% today to 147.67 but the SP 500 index is down 0.71 to 1470.58. It seems the spy is traded between 4 to 4:15, and the close at 4:15 is used as its closing price. I'm not too sure so appreciate if someone can clarify.

Scottrade is horrible. Everytime I use a limit order, they delay my execution by 5 seconds or so. So often I would see a sizeable block on level II, and enter an order to buy it. Right after I submit my offer, it does this stupid thing of showing my size at the bid price, instead of taking the...

Say you are trading a low limit stock. You set a limit order to sell at 99 dollars. Another person has a limit order to buy for 101 dollars. There are no other order sout there. At what price is this going to get executed?

I'm using tdameritrade and scottrade. Entering orders the normal way usually takes too long in fast moving markets. Going through their website and calculating how many shares to buy usually takes from 10 up to 30 seconds. Does there exist a programs where you can store some "ready to buy"...

One of close friends has made 71% on a 7 digit trading account since the beginning of the year. He got the capital to trade with from one year of playing poker. Now he has stopped poker and is trading fulltime. He graduated from college last year with a degree in comp sci. He...