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I only managed one of the CPB trades. The last one I couldnt get in:

@DaniloCastello. I think it would be best if we tranferred this discussion to the Brokers and Commisions topic. https://steadyoptions.com/forums/forum/topic/5-brokers-and-commissions/?page=20 but to answer your question. I still use IB because I am used to it and I like the mobile app a lot. I know @TrustyJules ( also in Europe) uses Tastyworks. I used Tastyworks for a while but never got around to comparing the commissions between IB and Tastyworks. When I used Tastyworks and IB together it was hard to keep up with both and a I lost money on Tastyworks because of been out of sight and out of mind as I didn't close my positions in time which stung me on a number of occasions.

thank you @mccoyb53 for the invitation! i still have some apartments in Dublin, they are rented, so I have to come sooner or later just to hug them and check they are still there ahah for what regards option commissions, i will definitely do as many SO trades I can (I have limited access to weekly options on stocks also with my italian broker), and then based on my results i will decide to open an account with IB, which is also good because I do want to keep some money in a foreign account even though this will force me do to an income return specific for trading options so for us, non US residents, what would be the best brokers, aside from Interactive Brokers, that connect with ONE software (do you actually use an option software)? thanks!

Was never in Copper Face Jacks but spent over ten years in Dublin myself in college and University. Loved Dublin but as a student i couldn't afford that place. If you ever make it over to Ireland again let me know and we can relive the good times. I opened a Euro account in London as far as I remember over 7 years ago. It was easy to do. I was with another American Broker at the time and IB saved me a huge amount on commissions. Even with IB lower cost commissions they do add up. In 2018 I made 109% for the year after commissions and before commissions it was 116%. Just saying that commissions are very important. See below a comment I made to @Krisbee over a year ago. osted January 10, 2019 I had no idea it was that much a difference. I am resident in Europe. ( Ireland.) I hope I can use Tradier as a non US citizen. My commissions last year with IB was over 6,000$!!! So the savings would be massive for me. Many Thanks @Krisbee and @sBatch. On the positive side I made a 109% return on SO trades in 2018 including commissions so I am in no way complaining. Excluding commissions my returns would have been approx 116%.

This right here is why I'm so hesitant to leave Interactive Brokers in search of better commissions. "Move fast and break things" is a fine mantra for a startup, but I'm not trusting my trading account to it! This sort of development and QA failure is endemic of the attitude of RH, to say nothing of the infinite leverage debacle of last year. I don't have much faith that other fintech startups are any better when push comes to shove comes to panic. In my mind, the commissions I pay to IB give me peace of mind that one, their platform is robust (even if TWS looks terrible) and two, when the &#@$ hits the fan, I can call an actual human broker on a telephone who will follow my instructions to safeguard my account in a crisis. Robinhood has an email address. People who were positioned short lost hundreds of thousands of dollars today because there was no way to execute trades, and RH is about to be in a(nother) mountain of trouble. Maybe I'm tarring an entire class of companies unfairly, but I personally prefer being able to sleep at night to saving money. Call it insurance.