What do you do with your excess cash?

At this point, I don't use a lot of my trading capital, yet am holding it in the account 'just in case.' However a lot of it sat idle in all in 2017, earning IB's meager interest rate.

What do you do with your excess cash in situations like this?
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Save it; trade/invest it.
I would rather collect some brokers/bank interest[ not much LOL]; than pay it on IBRK credit card. Looked a 7% yield today,on an dividend ETF, but not a good trender, so back to my first line.:caution::caution:
 
Ever since the Man Financial and PFG-Best debacles ( I've had clients get caught in both ), I've advised clients to keep their futures accounts on the minimalist side. These crises were not that long ago - and the strife and misery and anxiety it caused some of my clients left a very deep and indelible impression on me. I have a number of clients who keep multiple FCM accounts as partial insurance against Firm malfeasance.

Point being, you can always wire funds within an hour's time. There was a point in time where I personally kept a T-Bill in my futures account, but I think that practice is no longer in vogue.
 
For you guys with Marcus accounts...how do you like it? I meant to do it when they first came out and got distracted or something and never did it.
 
The terms "women" and "investment" are polar opposites from my own personal experience at least.

I invest it with women

Notice he said "invest it WITH women" not "invest it IN women". Big difference.

Bad women are not to be invested in. Good women don't need to be invested in.
 
At this point, I don't use a lot of my trading capital, yet am holding it in the account 'just in case.' However a lot of it sat idle in all in 2017, earning IB's meager interest rate.

What do you do with your excess cash in situations like this?

If you are not using it to increase your trading position, I would put it in the 2 safest investment vehicles: GIC's or T-Bills.
 
At this point, I don't use a lot of my trading capital, yet am holding it in the account 'just in case.' However a lot of it sat idle in all in 2017, earning IB's meager interest rate.

What do you do with your excess cash in situations like this?

Depends on how much is that excess cash.

wrbtrader
 
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