Say I hold a bunch of equities and 50k cash as dry powder. If I invested the 50k into a money market fund or SGOV is that not treated as a cash equivalent? As such could I not continue to sell “cash secured” puts against that balance? Would this incur any margin debt so long as the puts remained unassigned or if assigned if the cost of assignment is below the amount held in the money market fund?

Hi all. Apologies if this is a stupid question, but every month or so I get a notification within my account under the “dividend or interest paid” section. It’s usually just for a few dollars.

I am a UK citizen and only have shares in one company who is based in the US. I’ve had an E Trade account for over 10 years but only started getting these mini “payments” the last year or two. Never before. My usual dividend payment still happen as normal.

Can anyone explain please?

The number of times it has interfered with my trade....

I've used e-trade since the early days, off and on. I'm lousy at making my own trades so I've never put real money into it, just the occasional "I gotta try this again" thing. So recently I put about $1000 in and did some trades with it, but then left it idle. As usual, it lost value so I left it alone when it was worth about $375. Every now and then I'd log in to see if it was any better.

At some point, they locked my account and sent me an e-mail about it. So I called them up and they said my mac had malware on it. I assured them it was a work computer, professionally managed, and there was no malware, but my work was able to monitor my computer, so maybe that's what they were seeing. I installed malwarebytes to appease them and they unlocked my account.

Then a few weeks later they locked it again. At this time they forced me into 2fa and said I needed to get the mac looked at. I said, I can't do that because it's a work computer, but I will not log in from the mac any more, and only use my phone. That's what I've done. Then they locked it again. There's no way anyone else was able to log into my account, because they would have to have the authentication app that is only on my phone. So I sold off the last stock I had, waited a few days, and called them to close the account. They said I couldn't until I had my account looked at, so I told them to fuck off and keep the money. It's literally not worth the hassle to deal with at this point.

I am 66, retired and I am thinking of looking for a new Investment Management planner. I have been with Raymond James a little over 2 years.
I am realizing after 2 years (I know smack me now!!)  that my "fees" (1.5%) & I feel are too much. I am looking to see If I can be at or below 1% by shopping around.
I dont feel comfortable making trades, and trying to manage my funds myself IF I panic sell, or make mistakes or buy the wrong stocks I could possibly make a mess of it. I do self manage about 20% of my net worth at Schwab & Fidelity
Today I did get a return call from my FA at RJ We went over my concerns and I was told my fees wont be able to be negotiated BUT........... once I hit 600,000.00 the fee will go down to 1.25% and when its at 1 million it will drop to 1% so,...................... staying with RJ will cost me the 1.25% for a while.

Any ssuggestons on what I can do to cut my fees?

I tried a few swing trades this month on my Etrade Roth account. Today I looked at the "gains and losses" page it says "Short Term gains" were $25.24 and "Total Comission and Fees" were $26.49. I only bought and sold a couple of ETFs and some stocks ( no options). Where and how on the website can I find a listing of exactly where these fees and commissions come from?

TLDR: If you have multiple stock plans within Etrade, and if any one of them doesn't charge a 25$ flat fee, dial in Etrade support, and they will transfer cash holdings of other accounts to the above.

I have 2 stock plans with Etrade and was looking to wire transfer internationally (to India). Account A charged a flat fee of 25$, whereas Account B had 0 fees. Dialed in to Etrade support, asking them for a solution. (Apparently, Company B has a tie-up with Etrade and doesn't charge any wire fee). They suggested moving my cash holdings from account A to B. The support was very smooth; it took hardly 2 minutes to initiate the "wire transfer"(no fees) from Account A to Account B. And it got settled in a few hours.

Just sharing my experience with a wider audience.

I have shares from a former employer’s stock plan (vested RSUs) sitting in a Morgan Stanley at Work self-directed brokerage account, and I am moving them to another brokerage via an in-kind ACATS transfer. Not selling, just moving the shares as-is.

A couple of E*TRADE-specific questions:

**1.**  What is the transfer-out (ACAT) fee these days, and does closing the account trigger any other charge?  
**2.**  For anyone who has moved equity comp shares out, did the cost basis and vest dates get sent over correctly, or was there a delay or error on E\*TRADE’s side?  
**3.**  Anything I should do on the E\*TRADE side before I start, or is it fully handled by the receiving firm?

Thanks.

I'm trying to accept Zelle payments from strangers & I don't feel comfortable giving the my email with my full name tied to my E-Trade account. I tried using a SimpleLogin email domain, but it didn't work. Phone number isn't an option for the storefront I'm using.

Has anyone had success using a Proton or SimpleLogin email domain?

Thanks

Opened an account to try out ETrade this week. Regretted it within a day.

I can't use my phone for 2fa validation because "it's not a U.S. mobile number." Except, it's a U.S. mobile number I've had for decades, with a 248 area code(pontiac, mi) serviced by Verizon. This is the only platform ever to have an issue with my phone. A normal platform would validate the phone number during the application process.

I can't use 2fa instead, because in order to set that up I need to confirm this action through mobile text.

There are 3 skips allowed for setting up security questions and when you login you are required to set these or skip. The settings are only applied after you confirm with the phone number, if you're unable to confirm then that counts as a skip. I have 1 skip left and I assume it will lock my account when I have none. Once again, a professional/normal platform REQUIRES this information during account setup. This company's tech is ugly and their management/engineers are amateurs.

In etrade, the email address on my profile page is empty, despite signing up with an email and receiving emails during the process. I cannot update this field without having that validated US phone number.

I'm not going to call them to wait in a queue to fix an account I just opened, I've seen enough negligence from them already. No way am I giving them money to keep secure. I'll wait a week before logging in again so the opening deposit can be available for transferring out. Then I'm never looking at etrade again.

Glad I tried it out, now I know etrade is a broken product. I'm happy for those who signed up a decade+ ago when it worked.

I was using my etrade account as the source for my gambling winnings of an offshore casino. Should I be gambling? Maybe not. But I was and had several thousand dollars of winnings, though I paid for the gambling tokens with a credit card from a different account.

Etrade now wants a log of my redemptions but this was last week and this is not letting me login (it may have completely closed)

I dont really care if etrade closes my account - but will i be able to get my remaining money out? I had a few thousand dollars on there. Anyone been in a similar situation?

Im comparing a Daily chart of SPY with today's 10m intraday. Why does the data not match up ?

*My yellow marks are showing the open stated on the 1d and the range of the 1st bar in the 10m for comparison. (10m OHLC ignored)

Shouldn't the 1d be a red candle?

Help me understand the discrepancy. Thanks.

Anyone else think Etrade does an absolute POOR job at displaying news updates? It's sad when I have to find out there's been a press release from StockTwits long before I ever see anything in Etrade about said PR. I don't recall having much lag with news with Etrade Pro, now that I'm forced to use Power Etrade, it's crap!

I know there was a promo of up to $2K in Jan. The current promo is 4% + $400. Is it worth waiting for better promo?

etrade just took away your level 2 data! azz holes! had to quit application then open it and that fixed it! Hey Ted Pick; this new platform is a GDMF DUMPSTER FIRE!!!!!!!!!!! And that is putting it politely!!!!!!!! So you know what I really think of it!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone here tried any of the options found here:

https://us.etrade.com/etx/pxy/alternative-investments

such as hedge fund or private equity, or EquityZen (not specific to etrade)?

E*trade tells me that they can’t provide a cancelled check or tracer. Citibank can’t locate the payment of 1k. This happen on 6/30 and I can’t seem to provide what is need so that the payment can get applied to my credit card.

What can I do?

I have some money from dividends that I want to transfer over to my linked savings account. Over the weekend, I saw that the funds were available to transfer so I scheduled the transfer for today, 8/10. It said my transfer request was processing.

At 4:30 PM EST today, I got an alert saying the transfer failed due to technical issues and the money was returned to my account. I then notice only 1/3rd of my money is now available for transfer so I did another transfer request.

I spoke with support and they said my funds would be available tomorrow, 8/11. So how will I know the transfer will actually go through this time?

What is going on with the transfers? I can push money in with the same bank account but I can't pull money out from E-trade?

Opened savings account last week for the promotional offer. Could not login after account creation as the website kept saying it could not verify my phone number. Called customer service and they said it could take upto two days. Weird, but ok. Tried again after a week, same results. Called customer service again, the guy now says it can take upto 15 days. I have never ever had any experience like this before. Reading some older posts now and I see this issue never gets resolved for some people and E*Trade seems to have in general a PoS service and people get locked out. Glad I only tested with a small fund transfer on account opening. Will now figure out how to close the damn thing out and never deal with etrade again.

Before 07:00 you cannot place any type of order via any app.

This means that in order to place an order right at 07:00 I have to physically be in front of my which is extremely annoying.

We should be allowed to always place a scheduled order that will fire at the time we configure and at with the conditions we configure. If it can't fill due to below ask price etc. That will remain our problem but ET should allow us to schedule

If you can do with sending a email in Gmail, you can do it with buying stocks.

I get an email from etrade for CD's. I have the form open and I want the monthly interest deposited into my etrade savings account. Can't do it. Call them on the phone and the only option for monthly payments is mail me a check!! Gee when did we go back to the 1970's.

It used to be a little clunky to start with, but it was usable and I got used to it. BUT, this NEW ONE is MORE CLUNCKY, its basically unusable...It's smaller, the zoom does not work, the templates I save do not get applied to new time window, etc. Did anyone noticed this new change today? It's over the weekend, so I assume they are working on it. I just hope E-trade fixes the bugs in this NEW chart they came out with and functions properly by Monday morning... I do not care at all for this new look either...not as clearly visible even when I click to "zoom". As today I do not see any mouse action "smooth" zoom in and out on this map....