Questions tagged [broker]
An individual/entity who helps buy or sell a tradable asset. Often used with stocks, bonds, options, foreign-exchange. Related tag is brokerage, the fees charged by the broker.
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German discount brokers that don't claim fund's periodic kickback payments
In Germany, it's legal for an investment fund to pay your securities account provider a yearly provision.
Basically it's a form of kickback payment, i.e. one where your broker that provides you your ...
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Do CFD brokers ban profitable clients from trading on their platform, since these clients make them lose money?
Many CFD brokers make money from trading against their clients and profitable clients make them lose money. This is similar to how casinos operate. Casinos ban profitable customers. Do CFD brokers do ...
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Investing on someone’s behalf UK
If I wanted to invest on my friends behalf for a percentage commission to them, do I need a license to do this?
Is it as simple as registering with someone if this is the case?
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Transfer of shareholders for public company redomiciliation
A public company that I own stock in wants to change its domicile. I can see that ordinary shares (not referring to the DRs) of the company is listed on three exchanges in three countries, lets call ...
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Do you pay interest on trading with unsettled funds in a margin account?
If you buy/sell a stock with 100% of your account (not on margin, but with a margin account) will it just be settled immediately, or do you need to be on margin and pay interest to be able to trade ...
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Does eToro's Dividend Growth smart portfolio really pay dividends?
Four months ago I started an investment in Dividend Growth on eToro.
I once read that dividends are not automatically reinvested but actually go straight into one's balance. However, I haven't seen ...
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Is it a good idea to spread investments over multiple stockbrokers?
In the UK, I believe stock brokers are required to use nominee accounts to hold shares on behalf of individual investors, so that if the stock broker were to collapse the investments themselves are ...
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What are alternatives to Black-Scholes model that doesn't assume random walk behavior?
I've recently started binary options trading as a hobby and I want to know how brokers decide the return rates on binary options. I asked this Question and I tested the model proposed in the answer. ...
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What are the main criterias of brokers when giving return rates on binary options?
I've recently gotten into binary options trading. I've tried multiple brokers like deriv, IQ options,Pocket options etc.
What I want to know is how these brokers give the return value for a winning ...
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Will broker release some of the margin to cash account if the market go in my favor?
Say the broker requires a init margin of 40%, and a maintenance margin of 30%.
If I buy 10000 USD worth of stock, depositing a margin of 10000 * 40% = 4000 USD. How do I calculate the required margin ...
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Do I own ETFs when going through a broker?
I am considering investing in ETFs, mostly to learn, and without any formal financial education. If this matters for the question, I am French living in France.
I started to read about ETFs and found ...
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Is it legal for a stock broker to use client's idle money to generate interest and enjoy the benefit without sharing it with its clients?
I read an "investment report" about an online US stock broker, saying that the broker can gain extra earnings from clients' idle money interest without sharing the interest with its clients.
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When a company is listed in more than one exchange, how the stock exchange prevents a double sell of the same share
What prevents a broker from selling the same share simultaneously at two different stock exchanges?
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Was this brokers buying price real?
I started to invest with a broker company without any knowledge about system how it works.
Is it possible that they shows me that they sold the shares for much higher price as was the High value ...
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Transfer holdings to different broker w/o paying capital gains?
Suppose you own a bunch of stocks/ETFs with a broker (e.g, Fidelity) and you want to switch to another broker (e.g., Vanguard).
You can certainly sell the stocks/ETFs, move the cash to Vanguard, and ...
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Finding brokers to invest in US index funds that support iraq
I live in iraq and i would like to invest in US index funds.looking at the popular brokers like robinhood and vanguard they state that they don't support investing from my country.Googling for iraqi ...
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How can brokers profit from spread? [duplicate]
How can brokers profit from spread? Isn’t market makers that profit from spread?
And also how do brokers profit from OTC gain? How does that exactly work?
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What are the tax consequences of loaning securities to one's broker aside from the dividends being paid as payment-in-lieu taxed as income?
I'm trying to understand the tax consequences of loaning securities to one's broker in the United States:
The dividends of the loaned security are being paid as payment-in-lieu, which is taxed as ...
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Do I need to declare all my citizenships to my broker or bank?
Do I need to declare all my citizenships to my broker or bank?
This is a follow up question https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/75069/can-one-of-my-citizenships-cause-problems-with-investing
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Do American brokers and banks report client information (account size, balance, yearly profit) to client's country?
Do American brokers and banks report client information (account size, balance, yearly profit) to client's country?
Question is ONLY for NON-US citizens.
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Where client lives....
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If someone makes a mistake and sells their shares for 1c, who buys them?
Assume the market price is $100. Does the person with a limit buy at 1 cent get filled, or does the person with a market order get filled at a discount. Or is there some sort of safeguard? What would ...
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Investing in funds via broker, funds in brokers name not mine
As the question states. I am considering investing in funds via a local broker who has quite a good reputation. It was pointed out to me that the funds, eg. BlackRock, would have no record of my name. ...
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Today, can one buy stocks in a stock exchange market without being a registered member of that market?
Stock exchange markets are not my expertise and I don't know all the markets in the world (let along the history of generally any one of these markets), but all those I know do require registered ...
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Is my investment safe if the broker/bank I'm using goes into insolvency?
I'm using Scalable Capital as my broker. Once I buy ETFs through them, if Scalable Capital (or the bank they are partnered with) goes into insolvency, is my investment safe? I'm wondering if I should ...
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When I send money to fund my account, what obliges a broker to put it in my account?
When I send money to fund my brokerage account, I send the money to a bank account which I can't know if it's personal or business.
What obliges a broker (which we deal with him on the basis of trust ...
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Are there any studies on the success of day traders? [closed]
If you know about any published research paper on trade accuracy or from broker perspective that what percentage of clients are profitable in day trading.
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Riskless Principal - how does it work?
I've read the Investopedia article on Riskless Principal and my understanding is that a broker/dealer gets an order from a client of buy or sell a security at say 10. Then at the same time the broker ...
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Must I to pay a 2% commission if I invest in a mutual fund via an online broker?
If I invest in mutual funds via one of the online brokers; such as Interactive Brokers, Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.; do I need to pay a 2% commission to the exchange in which the shares are bought? If so,...
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Is thomastradingservices legit? [duplicate]
I have invested in a company called thomastradingservices (link removed) and got profit. Now to withdraw they say I need to buy bitcoin worth 20% of the profit and send it to their wallet to receive ...
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Trade stocks for stocks without involving cash [closed]
As I'm trading stocks, most of my transactions are selling stocks that have gains and immediately investing in other stocks. I wonder why there isn't a platform that allows you to just trade stock for ...
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Sell stock without a full broker account
I have a few stocks from a public company. I got them after a startup I worked in got acquired by this public company. So now I have an account on AST Financials, and my stocks are in their books (I ...
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If I wish to vote for a company's special meeting, should I vote via all brokers, or does voting via one broker suffice?
I own some shares in the company that will hold a "special meeting", for which shareholders have the option to cast their vote for. My shares are spread across several brokers: each of them ...
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DEGIRO: Is Debit Money better than an MMF-ETF short for leveraging?
I was looking into the options of leveraging my main index fund by a certain amount and was recommended to use Degiro's inhouse credit product "Debit Money". Current annual cost: 1.25% pa
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How did my 4 Tesla shares turn into 12 shares?
I bought 4 shares of Tesla on 3 separate occasions (between October 2019 and September 2020) and recently became aware that my brokerage account lists 12 shares rather than 4. So, my cost basis is $...
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Why don't brokers take money today for pending buy orders?
It was in the news recently that RobinHood had to prohibit some customer orders due to a lack of liquidity. The explanation was that because brokers like RobinHood take orders today which are ...
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Why are there SEC net capital requirements for brokers?
This explains that the net capital rule is for the "ability of broker-dealers to meet their financial obligations to customers and other creditors."
My understanding, however, is that client ...
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How is settlement risk shared between exchange, clearing broker, and clearing house?
As I understand it a trade works as follows. A buys from B on an exchange. Instead of a direct exchange, A and B report the trade to their clearing brokers. The clearing brokers then submit the trades ...
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If I loan securities to my broker, can this turn long-term capital gains/losses into short-term capital gains/losses?
E.g., if I purchase stock A on 2020-10-30, loan it to my broker from 2021-02-01 to 2021-11-20 and sold it on 2021-12-01 making a capital gain of X USD, will that count as long-term or short-term ...
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How can stockbrokers be so cheap in the U.S.?
How do stockbrokers in the U.S. manage to be so cheap?
In Germany, I know a few brokers but at most of them, the cost of an order is over 5€ (approx. 6$) every time. In the states, you have brokers ...
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can I trade stocks in IEX with Interactive brokers?
I have accounts in a couple brokerages. I trade stocks just fine, however I miss any good understanding of some fundamentals, and how things work under the hood. I'm confused about stocks being traded ...
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Is there completely free options broker? [closed]
I'm looking for cheapest options broker available, and stumbled across Firstrade.
They don't charge commission or fee, but unfortunately they collect SEC Fee and Options Regulatory Fee when selling or ...
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Are the shares that I own via my broker under my name?
Are shares under my name if I purchased them via my broker?
What if my broker goes out of business? That should have no effect on my shares because I own those shares. They are already bought and paid ...
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Why do real estate agents always ask me whether I am buying property to live-in or as an investment?
Trying to buy a house.
Along with -- what is the maximum you are willing to pay -- this is the most frequent question.
Why do they care whether I will live in it or rent it out? The two are not ...
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Invest in Vanguard Index Funds (from Germany)
I am planning to invest in Vanguard Index Funds while living/working in Germany, but only interested in specific ones (see below). But I cannot seem to find them via brokers that I usually do my ...
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Is the stereotype of a businessman shouting "SELL!" and "BUY!" into a telephone in any way attached to reality?
In numerous cartoons and whatnot, you see a rich businessman shouting "BUY!" or "SELL!" into a telephone. Sometimes, it's just that, and sometimes, they may shout the slightly more ...
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Fractional shares [duplicate]
Some brokers offer fractional shares. So when i buy half share of stock (0.5) whose buy the rest half of share because in stock exchanges(e.g. nyse,nasdaq,bats) you can only exchange whole shares.
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What is the difference between payment for order flow and ECN rebates?
In both payment for order flow and ECN rebates, one gets paid for providing liquidity. What is the difference between payment for order flow and ECN rebates? Are ECN rebates a type of payment for ...
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How are remisiers in Malaysia and Singapore different from stock brokers in other countries?
In Singapore and Malaysia, some (most?) investors buy stocks through a "remisier". Remisiers are apparently special enough to get their own Wikipedia page:
A remisier (also known as a ...
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I placed trade with Broker and it was not executed even though price fell 55 cent below what I asked
I placed a trade for stock XYZ with broker 123 from bank ABC (which is part of SIPC)
This was BUY trade for $100. Stock for XYZ went down to $99.45 and closed at $99.80. Trade was never executed.
I ...
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How are retail forex brokers different from betting shops?
I'm struggling to find differences between bookmakers and retail forex brokers (e.g. OANDA). The former deals with horse racing, greyhound racing and sports, while the latter deals with currency ...
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