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  • Pattern Day Trading Rules and 6 Workarounds

    by Sky Hoon
    I do have over $25,000 in my IBKR margin account so I did not encounter this PDT rules so far. Nevertheless, I will share the entire Pattern DayTr...

  • DeFi Risks - Why I Am Not Afraid Yet

    by Sky Hoon
    As a computer scientist, I believed and invested a significant (6 digit sum) of my investable money into crypto currency, especially some form of D...

  • No Trading Permissions To Buy Stocks In IBKR

    by Sky Hoon
    One common problem in IBKR is that you can find stocks you want but encountered a permission error that when trying to buy the stocks. Wonder why y...

  • IBKR MWR Vs TWR For Layman

    by Sky Hoon
    Take a look at my IBKR Portfolio Analyst and see the huge 100% difference between the MWR (508.66%) and TWR (383.07%). The weirder thing was there...

  • Good Short Interest Ratio That I Loved And Why

    by Sky Hoon
    Do you think that short Interest lower than 10% indicate sentiment is good and prices will go up? That's the worse assumption you can and I will s...

  • What Is MTD Interest (How I Ended Up With Negative MTD Interest)

    by Sky Hoon
    I am still new to InteractiveBroker since April 2020 and learning all the different charges to my margin account.  I realized I had a negative MTD ...

  • Covered Call Vs Naked Put (With CBOE Data)

    by Sky Hoon
    Online "gurus" selling paid courses touted covered call as a "secret" way to generate income with claims like this.  If you sell a covered call an...

  • Stock Replacement With Options (With 4 Scenarios)

    by Sky Hoon
    I was looking for ways to protect your profits given possible volatility from the elections. To my surprise, there was an easy solution with call ...

  • Buying Stock On Dips 3 Days Ago

    by Sky Hoon
    Fastly ($FSLY) a stock providing edge computing and CDN services crashed around 30% when it provided lower than expected earnings guidance. This i...

  • Shorting Parabolic Stocks

    by Sky Hoon
    Stocks that seen an exponential decrease and an increase in stock price are called parabolic stocks. Be careful as it could be a short squeeze too ...

  • Divergence in Binary Options Trading

    by Sky Hoon
    For binary options trading, a divergence is a popular technical analysis tool which intermediate and advance traders use without knowing. The Mov...

  • Can Stock Options Be Transferred?

    by Sky Hoon
    Employee stock option is a key remuneration for C-Class executives. Options are taxable as they are part of a person's asset. Can options be tran...