Recent Content by 489

  1. SPX or SPY for options

    Classic ET! Who cares about quality of execution, its the commission that is the most expensive portion of the trade. Too funny.
    Post by: 489, Jan 22, 2013 in forum: Options

  2. combo order matching directly on options exchanges?

    Nope. Wrong.
    Post by: 489, Nov 24, 2012 in forum: Options

  3. combo order matching directly on options exchanges?

    The is no such thing as a dark pool for options. All electronic option orders, whether spreads or single leg, MUST be publicly exposed for a short...
    Post by: 489, Nov 24, 2012 in forum: Options

  4. Why are there fees for cancel/modify?

    Post by: 489, Sep 10, 2012 in forum: Options

  5. KCG down due to rumor of algo gone wild

    If the SEC was really serious about protecting the market from HFTs they only need do one simple thing; make the minimum tick for all stocks a...
    Post by: 489, Aug 2, 2012 in forum: Stocks

  6. IB - Portfolio Margin have higher requirement than Reg-T!!!

    OK, I misspoke by saying cross margining when I should have said offset; mea culpa. Offsets are indeed applied to contrasting positions in similar...
    Post by: 489, Jul 30, 2012 in forum: Options

  7. IB - Portfolio Margin have higher requirement than Reg-T!!!

    RegT is rules based and PM is risked based. Therefore PM will look at 20-30 different risk arrays and choose the most expensive one to apply at...
    Post by: 489, Jul 30, 2012 in forum: Options

  8. Does Interactive Brokers support Notionally Funded account?

    Ahhh, gotcha. That is not good. My experience with IB is from the stock and options side, which trades in more size and is likely more liquid than...
    Post by: 489, Jul 13, 2012 in forum: Professional Trading

  9. Does anyone know of any prop firm that uses IB?

    I know that they offer their platform as a white-label option to introducing brokers and advisors, but don't know why a prop firm would care...
    Post by: 489, Jul 12, 2012 in forum: Prop Firms

  10. Does Interactive Brokers support Notionally Funded account?

    WRONG. IB allows the master account user to create pre-trade allocation instructions based on net liq, avail equity, percentage increase...
    Post by: 489, Jul 12, 2012 in forum: Professional Trading

  11. IB take-over

    IB isn't for sale, now or ever...period. And don't confuse a low stock price, which is basically a popularity contest, with the cash stream...
    Post by: 489, Jun 27, 2012 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. Mark Cuban breaks one of tradings golden rules

    +1
    Post by: 489, Jun 21, 2012 in forum: Wall St. News

  13. IB options commissions

    Retail clients do not benefit from sub-penny executions in any asset class. The nature of a retail order of small size (say ~1000 shares/10...
    Post by: 489, May 21, 2012 in forum: Options

  14. IB's option cancellation fee

    The original post referenced trading two different asset classes, stocks and futures. Keep you hedge in the same asset class that trades and...
    Post by: 489, Mar 19, 2012 in forum: Options

  15. IB's option cancellation fee

    Things have changed and in today's fully-electronic, HFT environment where trades occur in milliseconds, bust/adjust and auto-liquidation rules...
    Post by: 489, Mar 18, 2012 in forum: Options