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    Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    Simplified reporting means you only fill Part A and you only provide two numbers for the entire tax year, with no details - "income from all specified foreign property" and "gain / loss from disposition from all specified foreign property"
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    Any Canadian traders here? How do you handle form t1135 and reporting of foreign securities?

    You can qualify for "simplified reporting method" if your foreign property was less than $250k during the tax year. And you have to report all non-Canadian securities, even when held with Canadian brokers.
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    Important times during a trading day

    Al Brooks has a theory about max or min of the day happening during the first 18 5min bars with 90% probability. Never actually had the time to verify it though.
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    Being both long and short the same security

    Your both statements are intriguing. Would you care to elaborate for us?
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    Being both long and short the same security

    Just to clarify my initial post. I also have other securities in acc #1 which I cannot transfer out or liquidate at a reasonable cost for at least another 10 years. If I would move out the SPYs this would dramatically increase the maintenance fees on the account.
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    Being both long and short the same security

    I know I have this option :D but I would like to avoid it, thank you.
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    Being both long and short the same security

    The context is like this: two different brokerage accounts, acc #1 difficult to operate, acc #2 (IB) very flexible I am holding 200 SPY in acc #1 which I would like to close sometimes in the future or even today. I would like to use the capital of the 200 SPY in acc #1 for trading in acc #2...
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    Great info. Thanks.
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I found them guys, thank you. Can anyone comment on trading TBills with IB? Cost, spread, slippage? Any other potential issues?
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    You only get 1.9% for the amount above the $10k threshold and 0% for the first $10k. That is why is 1.7% for $100k.
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    How do I buy them? What is the contract identifier / symbol?
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I was not aware that I can buy TBills in the IB account as IB's contract search page does not return anything https://misc.interactivebrokers.com/cstools/contract_info/v3.10/index.php How do you find them?
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    How to get the risk free rate on idle cash?

    I am looking for suggestions about how to get the risk free interest rate on cash sitting idle in my brokerage account (IB). Interested in a short term solution, no longer than 30 days. My definition for "risk free interest rate" would be Fed Funds Rate, 2.5% as of today. I am aware of the...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    Hi Oldnemesis, I am a bit confused by the way how you calculate the expectation for your trades. In APPL's case, shouldn't be like this: Expectation = 0.91 x 26 + 0.04 x (-474) + 0.05 x ((26 - 474) /2) = -6.5 Also, in a previous post you mentioned that you are getting the probability numbers...
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