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The only thing I actively trade is the E-Mini S&P with my Interactive Brokers Account. I’m not a big fan of the free TWS workstation that Interactive Brokers provides to analyze the E-mini chart. I recently signed up for a free 1-month trial on TradingView and I absolutely love their chart...

I’m new to trading and I have a question regarding capital gains and commissions. Say I buy a stock at $1000 and sell it for $2000 and I pay $1.00 in brokerage commissions to buy and to sell. Does the IRS, or in my case the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) calculate the profit based on the buy and...

As a fellow IB customer who trades the E-mini with IB, this is unsettling. I've been trading futures with an IB account since only May of 2016, but I haven't noticed this charge yet.

I actually closed out the investment this week. It sucks that I have to walk away with a $4000 loss, but it's been a good learning experience. At the time when I started the leverage fund, I knew absolutely nothing about investing. I think the strategy definitely could have worked if the...

I'm a Canadian in my early 30s and I have 100% of my portfolio invested in equities. I've been doing some reading and most sources say that a percentage of your portfolio should be in bonds. I was thinking about redistributing about 20% of my portfolio into a bond index ETF, but I've never been...

So it says the distribution frequency is monthly. So I'm assuming that means interest is paid monthly? And the trailing 12-month yield is 2.58%. I just want to be sure I'm understanding correctly. That means the average interest for the last 12 months was 2.58%. So if you invested $1000 twelve...

I have a question about bond index ETFs. I understand that a bond index ETF will rise in price if interest rates go down. What I don’t understand with bond ETFs is how interest is paid to the bond holder. Is it paid out quarterly like a stock dividend? I’m also having trouble finding out how...

I'm just not sure what a "short-term cash alternative" is

Two years ago, I consulted a financial advisor at London Life (Canadian provider of life and health insurance) as my investing knowledge at the time was very limited. I was advised that since I carried no debt, the best way to make money would be using leverage to invest. The plan was to borrow...

Thanks xandman. I know this is not related to this thread, but which alternative interesting developments do you have in mind?

I’m currently trying to decide where to invest my money long-term, as I’ve recently pulled out of my bank’s recommended mutual funds as they haven’t been outperforming the market in the last 3 years. I was thinking about investing a small portion (maybe 10% of my cash) into Deutsche X-trackers...

Thanks Xela. That was helpful. I do realise that using this indicator, which I will likely never fully grasp, is not going to be helpful at all to me. And I don't plan on using it for my own trading purposes. I am currently reading a book where "looking at a longer-term chart to see which way...

I know where the MACD is. It's directly below the candlestick chart. The line that says MACD (12, 26, close, 9, false, true). The question that I have is how to tell if the MACD is angling up or down.

Thanks. I read the wikipedia article, but it's not any clearer to me which line on my chart I should be looking at to determine if the MACD line is angling up or down.

Which brokerage do you recommend?

Hi, I’m trying to use the MACD line as one of my indicators. One of my indicators is whether the MACD line is angling up or down on the long-term chart in the direction of my trade. My problem is, I’m having trouble figuring out if I’m supposed to be looking at just one line of the MACD or both...

I've called IB about a half dozen times for support. Average hold time for me is around 10 minutes. Not great. Especially if it's an emergency.

I feel the same way about gold at this point, but my gut is still 50/50.

You only pay the fee for the buy and sell. With IB, it is $2.03 for the buy/sell so you're looking at a total of $4.06 in commissions ($2.03 when you buy your contract and $2.03 when you sell). It's the same if you are in a short position. No interest expenses. That is what I pay up here in...