If you are using them as a cheaper route to play the underlying, the main thing you need to remember is the leverage goes both ways. If you are...
In order for the local to make money from the order flow, the broker is bringing in the order, both making money, moot point. Using the...
Cutting the spread to $.01, would hurt not help, most professional traders, and not just MM, we are off floor traders. The switch to decimals cost...
That rule has nothing to do with what you are suggesting. That is "small lot baiting"; i.e. you offer a one lot @ X, on a strike with a large...
Yes.
Def, Is IB's system still rejecting more than one order a second? Same strike or same series?
freehouse, The reason there is no real linkage is because the exchanges really don't want it. Your assumption of being a member at all 5...
Terra Nova.
There are definitely issues, we are regularly accused of it, even though we have shown a number of our executing brokers our operation. The faster...
They used to use the same arguments about stocks and futures, now imagine where the price can go.
Def, We don't use IB anymore, so I can not check this myself, but I remember some posts about options requiring a confirm. If I am wrong...
No. Put in more memory.
Jean Michael, Are you using the third chart as a trailing profit stop for you exit?
Jean Michael, What do you use the Parabolic for? How do you calculate your stops in the last chart? What options have you had this work on?...
Getting what you see will be nice.
I think if the BOX honors all their quotes, regardless of the posted quotes on the other exchanges or the whether it is a retail account or a...
All of them, all for different reasons. We leg into everything.
Just21, If that question was directed to me, 10 to 50 lots. We get faded more than we get filled.
Freehouse, We call in a number of fades a day, puts them through the paces, makes me feel better, net result is it costs us a little money.
The problem with "disputing" the "no fill" is that you have to leave the order live, and if they rule against you the slippage is very ugly....
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