mrw02536

How do I enter a trade like the hedged xop (4 legs) in a way that allows me to close it as one trade rather then each leg at a time?

thanks for the info

I hope I'm in the right forum. Just starting trading on IB and find the trading platform very confusing. Any advice on how best to use it?

I can add this about Tradier. Their customer service is very responsive. The trading interface is not great but adequate.

It looks like Tradier has the others beat by a mile with only $10.00/month. Not getting all. the fill is a problem but not filling doesn't lose you money, only potential profit.

I'm trying to estimate the number of contracts/month (opening and closing), I think it's about 100 for a $20K portfolio. IB could amount to $75.00 in commissions for the month, E*Trade about $25.00. Larger portfolios are proportionately higher. Should this be a factor in lowering costs or does a greater ability to fill trades make up the difference?

I'm using Tradier for a flat $10.00/month. Do we have information about differences in filling trades among the brokers? I was using E*Trade for 25c a contract and find no difference between the 2 in filling trades - not that good.

What is their option commissions for our SO trades?

I find that typically after Kin comes out with an official trade the entry price moves up almost immediately. I wonder if this is because: 1. coincidence 2.Kin's trades are really good and timely 3. There are enough members of steadyoptions that we influence the price 4.Somehow traders outside of steadyoptions are getting these trades. any thoughts?

Does anyone have the $40.00 Tradier deal and also getting a discount on a third party platform?

I was assigned yesterday on the short side of a 1 week calendar. Without thinking I just exercised the long and washed the sale. I should have thought to sell the stock and sell the long put for what would probably have been a small credit to cut my loss.

I've been trading using the Tradier web platform which is ok. I just started using Medved for portfolio management. The free version seems to satisfy my needs but not for trading since you can't trade multi legged options

If you look at platforms on the tradier site you will see several choices with discounts for tradier members. I'm saying these promotions don't apply if you're on flat rate.

Btw, I'm told with the $40.00 flat rate none of the third party discounts apply

I've asked before, anybody have any fresh ideas about a good trading platform to use with Tradier?

I have three trades (straddles) that got caught up in a stock merger. There expiration dates were all moved up to today for a cash settlement. One trade was on etrade and their platform has been showing the adjustment since the merger. The other 2 are on Tradier and I had no idea about the merger until I received an email about an hour ago about expiring options. Nothing about this is flagged on there platform. $40 unlimited trades are great but there is a downside.

There were no issues transferring funds from my Fidelity IRA for free. I primarily trade SO using there web based platform without too much difficulty although their platform is very basic. My biggest complaint is not being able to follow my profit and losses on specific option trading. For example, I made a number of trades on MU and ultimately had to ask them to send me a summary of the trades to figure out if I was ahead or not. You can enroll in Apex Clearing house who holds the Tradier account and one you join you can use your Tradier credentials to see reports. But the process is not clean. You can download these reports into Excel but there's work to be done to get at P/L. I've raised the issue with Tradier and while they claim to be working on it I suspect they have minimal technical support for such matters. Other than that I've had no problem and their tech support has been reasonable in answering questions. I did have a problem with PCLN when there was a symbol change. It seems all other brokers got the change in real time while there was a day's delay in Tradier so I had to do the trade by phone. With all of this you can't beat their unlimited trading for $40.00

There is an earlier post on this which explains their relationship to Apex Clearing House. Do a search.

I have an IRA and no problems trading. The $40 month comes out of the IRA. The web platform is basic, no bells and whistles but usable. I've complained about this before but there is no easy way to keep track of profit and loss. Information is on Apex the clearing house but I'm still having difficulty figuring out profits on specific trades.

open an account on Apex then use your tradier account info

I have done this and downloaded the report into excel. It doesn't matter if you filter by symbol on Apex because all you can export is the unfiltered report. Once in excel reformatting and editing is required to get this into a form that can be summed for gain/loss on the entire report. I haven't bothered to do symbol filtering in excel but this is much more involved then it ought to be. Furthermore, the report is not updated until the next day or so and, therefore, not always up to date. I also have an account at eTrade and their platform is contains all the p/l info updated real-time.

I feel that if you can't keep daily track and ytd of p/l for trades than the platform is very limited. How can you trade if you don't know if you're profiting or losing on closed trades

What about profit and loss on closed positions on either Traderhawk or Trend? Can you filter stocks for closed positions gain/loss? Year-to-date?

I am able to trade Kim's SO trades on Tradier's native web based platform with no difficulty. What are the benefits of paying for these 3rd party platforms?

In what way is Trend so useful?