Archive for the 'Brokerage' Category

Tradeking changes its ACH holding time to 60 business days

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

In a previous post, I wrote that Tradeking is holding my money hostage. Basically the issues started after I indicated my intention to transfer my business elsewhere. Tradeking started a lock-down on my account, restricted my account and then told me that any money that I transferred by ACH to them cannot be returned for [...]

Tradeking is holding my money hostage

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Recently, due to my tax loss harvesting transactions, I decided to move part of my portfolio to Tradeking and try them out. Because Tradeking has an ACH limitation of $10,000 per transaction, I had to split up my transfers into chunks of this size or smaller to have my money transferred. Tradeking happily accepted the [...]

Just2Trade Versus TradeKing

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Recently I looked at two discount brokers in an effort to move my ETF holdings to a broker which can provide specific tax lot identification. The first broker is Just2Trade.com, and the second broker is TradeKing.com. These two brokers are very similar. They both clear through Legent Clearing and both offer the MaxIt tax manager [...]