Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess

If it wasn't for the fever, I'd be working today. Felt like some intense congestion in my head

200 day tag normal, also right at resistance up there. Not far. I suspect we test the bottom over the coming days/weeks.

I'm ready for a bit more normalcy! This 09-11 type volatility is rough.

I'd suggest Interactive Brokers. TOS platform is mediocre IMO, any free platform will be. I like Ninja Trader.

Don't worry Robinhood users! They're apologizing while the market goes up ~3% and their system has been down for almost four hours. If you're actively trading, for your own good, GTFO of Robinhood.

claym711 said:

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200 day tag normal, also right at resistance up there. Not far. I suspect we test the bottom over the coming days/weeks.

I'm ready for a bit more normalcy! This 09-11 type volatility is rough.

I'd suggest Interactive Brokers. TOS platform is mediocre IMO, any free platform will be. I like Ninja Trader.

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Double top?

I'll take a look at the other platforms. Specific functionality you like about them?

Hope you start feeling better bud.

claym711 said:

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200 day tag normal, also right at resistance up there. Not far. I suspect we test the bottom over the coming days/weeks.

I'm ready for a bit more normalcy! This 09-11 type volatility is rough.

I'd suggest Interactive Brokers. TOS platform is mediocre IMO, any free platform will be. I like Ninja Trader.

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Barron's article had Fidelity and Interactive Brokers as tied for #1. ETrade was #3.

Etrade #1 for mobile users and Fidelity #2.

Interactive #1 for active traders and international traders.

Fidelity and Etrade were #1,2 for newer/intermediate traders who like help and explanations.

Outside of last week's issue, Fidelity has been good for me

I'm afraid of what they'd do to me

Did China just dump a ton of cash into JD???

TRNX is $0.25. Anything other than corona scare driving price down?

Square Pair said:

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TRNX is $0.25. Anything other than corona scare driving price down?

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It's a steaming pile of **** with horrible leadership

What can be done with this Robinhood BS? I get it, switch to another user, but I have options out there that I am trying to execute and can't because of this... It is eating me ALIVE.

I have SPY mar 2 and mar 6 calls and can't sell.

AggiePeeps06 said:

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I have SPY mar 2 and mar 6 calls and can't sell.

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Me too on the Mar. 2

IrishTxAggie said:

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Square Pair said:

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TRNX is $0.25. Anything other than corona scare driving price down?

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It's a steaming pile of **** with horrible leadership

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Well it seems I have quite the collection of **** stocks.

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If you played the bounce to retest the 200 MA, you're about to be screwed big time by Robinhood. I think we will see end of day selling.

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I'm in puts again since we couldn't get over the 200 day at 304. If we get below 301 it could drop. Going to pull the trigger much more quickly on profits, out completely if we somehow get to new daily highs.

So I signed up for Interactive Brokers. The fact that you can create Python programming in it seems really cool to create custom scans, I'm going to have to look into this. Also loving the info they show on the fills you get and how their program searches for best fills between bid/ask. Going to keep diving in and may move over from TD, we'll see. Thanks everyone for the suggestion!

Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess

and there we go on the drop. Something tells me Robinhood's IPO just got pushed back lol

I've got some bond funds...BLV and VCLT to be exact...that have done nicely as a 'savings' account the last year...think it is time to dump them?

I filed a transfer to E-Trade today. Screw this crap. Never again.

The best brokerages I've used have been Phillips and Dorman. They're tiny and only handle futures trading but service was incredibly good and zero downtime.

Next after that is Interactive Brokers, followed by TD Ameritrade.

If I was going to use a free trading platform it would be Think or Swim, but as a 'pro' platform it's inadequate. TradingView is also great for low cost charting and light scripts but the data is very unreliable. Data is unreliable everywhere and you really have to store your own data or risk having it back filled by 'corrections' that alter historic signals if you're doing any systematic trading. For data access I use DTN/IQ Feed.

NinjaTrader's platform is quite good and that's what I use daily.

I also use matlab and sql extensively for data storage and analytics. I've used Rapidminer in the past also.

These are some lessons that cost a lot of money to learn - especially on data reliability.

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I filed a transfer to E-Trade today. Screw this crap. Never again.

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Be sure to call to set up your account and ask for the fees covered. RH charges $75 for the transfer, most brokers cover the cost during the switch though

This is so frustrating. Market up 3.5% and I can't sell my Mar 2 and 6 SPY calls which have to have tripled by this point. But who knows since the time value will be almost non existent tomorrow

Went ahead and took a small profit on JD and cashed out. Bought some FB.

My mar 31 spy 315c's are back in the green thanks to today

AggiePeeps06 said:

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This is so frustrating. Market up 3.5% and I can't sell my Mar 2 and 6 SPY calls which have to have tripled by this point. But who knows since the time value will be almost non existent tomorrow

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Yeah, I lost a lot on the 3/2 SPY calls.

RH automatically sells options if you don't have the equity in the last hour. Not sure how it will work together given their glitches, but you shouldn't lose on them.