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you can also sell covered call in cash account in IB but then you cannot sell the stocks before you buy back the calls and if the stock goes up, you might not have enough cash to buy back the calls.

Outdated Java? !! hummm...:eek:

True and that is not my intention I said market is up and it will go down (my belief) and more riskier stocks will go down more. I am not talking just about today. I am talking about a trend.

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Stupid management hires white house speaker for communication !!. what a waste of money. What they want to announce that is very important and needs someone with that high paying salary ? Just hire one of those burger flippers for $8 an hour to announce that your sales are down !!

midpoint is the default. You can pick trades or from a list of about 10 different things. The proof is attached. I have used multi charts in IB and it works perfect. In conclusion I can say maybe TWS is like a Ferrari that you if you are used to drive a Ford Tempo, you will crash the car to the...

Surprise !!. MCD May monthly sales were down again for 16 consecutive months. In 2 weeks it should be below 90 and then much lower.

DOW, NASDAQ, S&P started flat and then down and now are up but IWM and IBB are both down. More IBB. I believe Market should drift much lower. I don't mean crash. Just 20% correction. No steam to take market higher from here.

I just think 9/10 people that you said lose in Forex is because they plan to lose. Forex trading is a high leverage trading that is more like gambling for many people. They have no knowledge of how global economy is working and just open an account with $100 and double it in 10 minutes and then...

I cannot predict the direction of the market. I just wanted to show that IWM longs are long on stocks that have gone up from $25 to $200 with $5 loss per share. Actually my belief is that we will see biomedical stocks will lead the next correction phase.

I did not mean that from tomorrow they will tumble. What I meant was they have the potential to drop 50% and still be overvalued but you cannot say that to other solid and overvalued stocks like Dow components.

LLXa , I enjoy reading your discussion and I hope people can find something out of it. Today was a slow day for me.I did 2 option trades in my IB account. Sold 4 contracts ETF Call premium of 0.67 and I paid $1.69 commission total Sold 6 contract stock Call premium of 0.2 and I paid $2.2...

If you are still long IWM which is Russel 2000 ETF or worse than that if you are long TNA which is 3X long IWM, you should be numb by the great ride that you had in the last couple of years and you might not want to see what are in those ETF funds but I give you 3 top 10 holdings and show them...

I have seen similar cases but IB will liquidate on Monday at 15 minutes after open time frame. A while ago one of my friends sold 130 PUT and bought 127 PUT for AAPL in his IRA account. It looks risk is limited in these situations you should close the position if is not in a desirable range on...

Perfect answer. I had cases that I had both PUT and Calls at say 27.5 strike price for a stock and the stock closed at 27.50 and some of the PUTs and Calls were assigned so some cancelled out each other. That is why bid /ask price for options that look will expire worthless still trade over 5...

Never ever a person who makes just six figure like 150K in NY should stay in a luxury apt. He should have stayed in a 2.5K crappy one bed apt. Over 500K a year is allowed to do that. It shows that he could not budget his expenses.

Here is my theory to solve the mystery. Please give me your feedback whether it makes sense or not. In the last few years corporates even government organizations are hiring more contracts compared to permanent positions. They are doing this to reduce their liability so that they can lay off...

If you had used online TurboTax consistently for your tax purposes during the years, it would have taken care of it for you. Most probably you are jumping between different CAPs or tax tools. You can deduct 3000 of your loss from your income each year and deduct the whole amount as carried over...

Good question that made me curious too. While I was reading Loyek590's response and before he realized that it wont work I just wanted to respond that it wont work and then I realized that he already found out the problem. You can open the order window and enter the time to activate the order at...

Sorry.I realized that you were not comparing IB to Fidelity and your statements were specifically to IB. While my statements are still true but I would like to know what you meant to margin rate is high in IB.