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Are you saying you're getting charged interest for shorting stock? When you have a credit balance? No I am getting that credit interest rate of 1.85% for my short account. I was asking are there any brokers with better rates. Based on my research there are NONE!

Lets assume your account is less than 100K. Lets be more specific and nail it to $55K ( a little over 50K). Which broker offers the best margin rate for trading stocks? I see my broker "IB" rate is about 4.6% and I don't see any other broker's rate less than that. The other important factor is...

First try it with your cousins and siblings and friends and then you will find the problems practically and solve it.

IB has absolutely no hidden cost. Some brokers might look cheaper but they get you in other places. Some other thing that might surprise you more. You said 100 shares at $50? I say 100 shares at $2000 per share is also charged $1.:D

Cyber is offering two free flat panels if you open an account I don't want to say anything bad about Cyber Trader or their deals but it is not for me. I trade stocks and options only (no future). Their extra charge for option $9.95 plus $1 per contract will cancel out the price of that free...

I had accounts with many many brokers in the past and now I am with IB for about 2 years and based on my past experience, I am a big fan of IB. I had problem a few times with their web trader but it does not make me to switch to any other broker. A while ago I started a thread to find any other...

It will also be nice to have a T-shirt when you lose your shirt in a trade.

What is the best T-Shirt or Cap in your collection would you say? I don't have a favorite one but I can say that I was getting about 3 T-Shirts in a month in 1999 2000 periods. Now my resources have dried up and I am trying to convince IB to do us something :)

That stuff would be cool. Careful what you suggest though. They already seem a little overstretched with trying to add on lots of miscellaneous features to TWS. The strain that the manufacturing of pens, shirts, paperweights, hats, etc. may mean more downtime. ;) It was funny. The good thing...

I really enjoyed it. Perfect.

I have a good collection of T-Shirts and Caps from different companies. I am just wondering whether IB has any T-Shirt or Cap with its logo on it. I think that would not be bad a idea if IB offers a T-shirt or a Cap for those who had their account for a year with them. Even if IB does not offer...

The rule to buy a house is: 1-You SHOULD put 20% down minimum. 2- you should buy a house that will take 50% of your income after tax and you should not have debt more than 10% of your monthly income after tax. Example: If you have 100K salary and after tax you get 65K. Your monthly income...

I tried to short ADI before the hours at about 9AM. I used IB's Webtrader. I unchecked normal hours box and my order was accepted but my order was not showing as Ask price. I have shorted many stocks before the hours and AH but this time it did not work. I changed my order a couple of times. I...

Take the trades as they come. Listen to the market, she'll tell you where she's going when she's ready. Don't you think that she tells you where she is going after you see she is already there? I agree with you but I also use my short term prediction. If I see her packing, I will know when is...

Look at the GDP chart. Every other Q, it peaks but the peak is lower than the previous peak and then the next Q it goes down and it is lower than the previous low. I have done a prediction for the next Q (third Q) that I am showing it in the chart. It should be a little better than this Q but...

Look at the GDP chart. Every other Q, it peaks but the peak is lower than the previous peak and then the next Q it goes down and it is lower than the previous low. I have done a prediction for the next Q (third Q) that I am showing it in the chart. It should be a little better than this Q but...

It seems that we don't see any growth. What we see is good profit that comes by reducing costs and slashing jobs. Can it sustain? Is it a temporarily solution? Personally I think that the companies are forced to do that out of desperation and just to make the street happy.

If you want to short but you are scared a little and you think it might go up a little bit more, sell naked calls for out of the money strike price

You are asking the reasons to go short and it reminds me of the movie called I think " The great dictator" by Charlie Caplin. In the movie Hitler (Charlie) was in a room and a typist was typing what he was saying. Hitler was shouting angrily and talked for two minutes and the typist just...

By the way don't hold it against me if after 3 days, market rallies again. I told you at 3:17PM on Tuesday that market is good to short. I give you timely information and recommendation. Yes I also make wrong trades. Look at my picks to short. They are still good to short IMHO. To be safe, you...