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How to Fund TD Ameritrade (ThinkorSwim) using Maybank via M2U

  I am adding more funds into my TD Ameritrade Singapore account to increase my account's trading size.  I dropped TD Ameritrade an email about the funding procedure and here is their reply : You may refer to our full wire details below and initiate the wire at your bank. You may refer to our website for more funding information. https://www.tdameritrade.com.s g/why-td-ameritrade/account-ty pes-and-funding.html Do take note of the following when wiring your funds over.         · We cannot accept third party wires. Funds must be wired from a bank account that is registered under your own name.         · Funds sent to Wells Fargo Bank MUST be sent denominated in US Dollars. Funds received in non-US dollar denominations will be returned to the sending account         · Deposits directed from a currency exchange will not be accepted and will be returned.     ...

Trading Journey [ Part 1 ] - Follow My Game Plan

I am starting a series of articles to update my latest journey, the emotions I have been feeling, current state of mind, mistakes I've made and also things I did right and should continue doing. Basically a self-reflection of my investing and trading journey so far - more like a journal. I have been profiting lately using a Sell Put Spread on SPY strategy (link here ) for the past 2 months. However it really has been a roller coaster ride as usually on the final week for each month, there had been a huge spike in volatility which caused a lot of uncertainty in the market. For these 2 months I have been fortunate enough to escape without incurring losses since I took profit manually a few days before VIX spiked up (at around 50-70% profit, days before the last trading day off the month. ) For the month of February I continued my strategy by opening a Sell Put Spread for SPY on the first week of Feb 2021 and collected a premium $3.30. I closed this position on 24th Feb 2021 when it ...