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Does anyone know if Long Positions on Stock Options contribute to the calculation Margin Equity? What is the policy of the most brokers?

Amertrade/TD Waterhouse have joined forces and the new name will be TD Ameritrade. Late April 2006 there will be also a New Commission and Margins Schedule. Does anyone know anything about it? Is TD Ameritrade going to raise Commissions/Fees/Margins etc? thanks

can someone recommend a good broker for OTC and Pink sheets stocks?

It is weird that no one has post comment about this broker. If someone has experience with this broker please let us know too.

here is the link http://www.investrade.com/index.htm

does anyone use this broker? could you share your opinion about the quality of their executions, cancel pending orders? Do they route directly for execution or they trade on your order? I am not a day trader but I would like to have good executions and be able to cancel my pending orders...

I heard IB now offers two different ways to deliver confirms and statements. One is by sending them directly to your email address (this used to be the old one) and the new method IB uses is to keep confimrs and statements in their secure website where the user can log in and download them to...

can someone recommend a relatively cheap Dual p4 motherboard? thanks

I was wondering how many online brokers/trading firms and Real time quote providers offer an API so users can write their own software to hook on their servers. Is IB the only broker offering this service?

she has a dsl connection but the whole problem is over long time ago. Now it works fine.

I would suggest to address all those issues but on a different thread each one. You can create one thread for LII, one for TA, one for institutional sector rotation, one for daytrading, one for swing, one for options etc If you try all those issues on one thread it will grow huge and it...

all the way. But the "Barbarian" should not care too much if we want to share our knowledge with others. Nobody of us will take an exam by the end of semester on how good our trades were.

I always wanted to start a thread like this but I hesitated mainly due to the fact that most people here look pretty experienced and probably have no time or don't want to share their knowledge with others. I have been a swing trader for several years, I have tried trading(2-3 days span) for...

Customers should pay $10/month unless their monthly commissions exceed $30. This will keep freeriders away. Even if someone opens an IB account just for the RTQ feed he/she has to pay the 10 dollars/month. With the same amount of money you can subscribe to money.net which is a quasiRTQ...

nobody cares to comment? are you so happy with the way IB sends you e-mail?

with Digital-IDs from Verisign. The question is: Is IB willing to include a Digital-ID in their database next to the e-mail address? http://www.verisign.com/products/class1/index.html ajax

As far as I understand IB has an on line "simulator" where developers can test their programs before they use them in real market conditions. This is very wise, no doubt. Is this "simulator" available to everybody or you need to open an IB account first and become a customer of IB? thanks

for sure it is a lengthy process. Thanks again.

Could someone explain briefly what would be the best way to get involved in this kind of programming? should I start with DDE excel programming or with VC++ what is more convenient for a beginner like me. Or there is something else. My intention is to write some programs and have the IB...

Last February or March IB announced that they partner with Trading Technologies to create a full scale trading platform. Does anyone know what happened eversince? Did they make that platform or still work on it?