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It's the min activity fee. IB charges $10 if you place no trades the whole month. This fee is not tax-deductible, so I would prefer to make some insignificant trade so that the commission will become the tax-deductible cost of a particular investment. On months I come up short I tend to...

What trades can be done on Saturday? I just need to make a few small trades to use up the 10 dollar account activity limit.

I looked for a book to recommend to you.. a self-help spiritual guidance book on finding self-gratification without elitism, but couldn't find one. Sorry, you're on your own.

OP- Are you a US citizen? Many brokers outside the US will refuse to accept US citizens, even if they are a resident of an EU state.

i replied, but it didn't stick for some reason. To be brief, yes, it's a problem.. too much flash on their page expecting clients to have the latest tools. IMO, Adobe Flash is for online casinos.. not banks and brokers who need to be somewhat professional. It's a shame FI's are willing...

I could really use a supplemental market screener that will filter out contracts that have a high minimum order. E.g., If you place an order to buy $1000 USD worth of Hitachi Ltd. stock on the Tokyo exchange, the order will be canceled because the exchange has a min. order of 1000 shares of...

If anyone is interested, here are the transfer-out fees of those brokers: http://www.barcampbank.org/index.php/Transfer_Out_Fees

IB screwed the interface up like around 6-12 months ago. Seems to be Adobe Flash issues. They brought in a version of flash that has compatibility problems, so anyone using gnash firefox 2 will only get about half the functionality. Even if you comply with IB's published browser requirements...

I've been wondering when banks will figure that out, and start signing all their emails.

That may indeed be IB's thinking - although if that's the case, it's erroneous. IB could easily support hushmail, which is no more difficult for the average user than yahoomail. Hushmail users don't even have to know that keys are involved. IB could also offer what they currently offer to...

I was quite impressed to find that IB is capable of encrypting monthly statements using PGP. Then I was quite unimpressed to discover that there's an undocumented requirement that only "professional accounts" are allowed to receive an encrypted statement. It's disturbing that regular...