Hi Gang, Because of a problem with TDAmeritrade's web page display of the trust account, that I have been complaining about since I discovered it in January, I've been keeping a spread sheet of every day's results at the end of the day.
The problems are that the amount displayed for the day's gain/loss in the upper left versus the lower right, and the day gain/loss column never match so it is hard to know what the status actually is. I wouldn't bother monitoring more than monthly except for the errors I was finding and the bs reasons I was given for them. They finally admitted that they been having these types of problems since 2014.
What's really weird is that a minor error on my own account does not show up on the trust account! It is only the way the interest earned on cash is displayed so it is a trivial amount but the other errors are anywhere up to a couple of thousand dollars. Then the day before I found a strange number in the transactions listing and the answer they gave me was double bs. They said it was partly to cover the "Maintenance Requirement." So a positive number posted to the cash account is for maintenance requirements? Getting straight answers is painful.
Anyway, the real point of this is that I've been keeping a spreadsheet for the last couple of months of the various figures and I added one extra column - percent variation in the total account value. Starting on 4/20 as 100% it has gone down to 98.91% and up to 100.67%, a total range of 1.76% and averaging about 0.2-0.3% variation per day.
I have done no trading in this account. Is this some sort of indication that the market is at or very near its top? How are the rest of you doing in this regard?
Best,
Allen
