Questions tagged [td-ameritrade]
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How does a margin account help with debt consolidation?
I have a trading account with TD Ameritrade and I also upgraded to a margin account. I was reading through their materials and they state that a margin account can help you consolidate debts and move ...
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Non-resident alien tax rate on income from TD Ameritrade's Fully Paid Lending Income Program
TD Ameritrade has a "Fully Paid Lending Income Program" that brokerage clients can join to allow TD Ameritrade to loan out the brokerage clients' shares. Clients are paid a 50% split of the ...
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If I short an option and the buyer exercises the contract, what will happen?
Let's say that I'm on TDAmeritrade. I short a call option to collect a premium. I also own 100 shares of the same stock in the same account.
In a week, the option is in-the-money and the buyer ...
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What kind of order review does TD Ameritrade do on a simple and small buy limit order for a stock traded on the NASDAQ?
I was surprised to see that one of my simple and rather small buy limit orders for a stock traded on the NASDAQ got placed under review for 23 seconds before it got executed (small ~= 30kUSD, which ...
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Why does my stockbroker allow trading at the close but not at the open?
I have an stock brokerage account at TD Ameritrade, and I noticed that it allows market-on-close (MOC) and limit-on-close (LOC) orders, but not market-on-open (MOO) and limit-on-open (LOO) orders. Is ...
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When two financial institutions merge, when is the SIPC protection for an individual owning a brokerage account in both places reduced?
For example, as a result of the $22 billion Schwab-TD Ameritrade merger (mirror), when will the SIPC protection for an individual owning a Schwab and a TD Ameritrade brokerage accounts be reduced to ...
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Buying To Cover And Protecting Profits from Short Sell
I sold covered call options, and I would like to buy to cover when the market opens on Monday. For this particular instrument, trading volume is a bit thin, and I would like to "hide" my ...
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Selling a put option and getting assigned
I am using TD Ameritrade platform. Suppose I write a cash secured short put and the option expires in-the-money. The owner of the option then decides to exercise his right to sell.
I am okay with ...
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How does one transfer money quickly to a broker like Ameritrade over the weekend? (If money is no object) Would a wire transfer work?
I'm trying to transfer funds to my Ameritrade account before extended hours tomorrow.
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Why would a financial institution prevent their clients from trading a specific security?
Ameritrade restricts trading of Gamestop:
"In the interest of mitigating risk for our company and clients, we have put in place several restrictions on some transactions in $GME [GameStop], $AMC ...
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Would using TD Ameritrade to manage Roth IRA contributions indirectly support new fossil fuel infrastructure?
My goal: I would like to avoid investing and banking with institutions supporting new fossil fuel infrastructure[†]. Is TD Ameritrade such an institution? (I'm hoping that, as a brokerage firm, it is ...
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What does the column 'Maint req' mean in TD Ameritrade's position table?
What does 'Maint req' mean in this TD Ameritrade position table? Am I losing money?
