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So I have a little timing question..
The APE dividend is paid by AMC today after close. Monday is the first ex-dividend trading day. So if I short or long AMC today I will also be short/long APE shares on Monday. Standard stuff.

How does that interact with option exercise? Suppose I sell a put and it gets exercised on Saturday morning, putting me in a long position. Do I get shares or not?

Did these organic pump and dumps happen in 2015 as well, or is it purely a post-robinhood phenomenon?

To the undercover IBKR marketers here:
how can I get a quote of the borrow fee rate for a stock without first taking a position in it? Preferably in TWS

>>50442276
I don't get what "front-loaded" means in this case.

Say you borrow $100k for 20 years for a house at 2%. You owe this interest rate every year. If in year 10 you've paid back half of the principal, that means for that year you'll have to pay $1k in interest. How does frontloading decrease that? You can take the $1k and pay it in the first year, you can even pay the $20k of interest generated over the 20 years all in the first year, but you're still paying it.

>All interest has practically been paid in the first 5 years.

If anything this sounds like it would increase how much interest you have to pay? You want to pay off the principal as fast as possible, if you're frontloading interest payments, that means the principal is still there.

How is the Canadian mortgage different from what I described above?

Hope the anon posting about price sensitivity when buying tail options is still here, cuz I have a question. It's more about order execution rules but maybe somebody knows.

So we have a spread of 0.05 bid and 0.20 ask and we want to buy as low as possible because price sensitivity etc. Say we put a bid at 0.10 of size 10, except the order book immediately shows bid 0.10 of size 15 (because the bots have mirrored us). Will we get filled first or do the bots cut the line somehow vs retail? I see this kind of thing often and it's suspicious that the bots never undercut, they only match the price.