Maybe there are broker risk checks it goes through? Maybe their "smart" order router is slow? (Brokers' "smart" order routers are often -- if...
Does excess capacity necessarily portend economic collapse? At the least, the Chinese are showing significant growth in their ability to...
KCG/Getco buy equity order flow from retail brokers ("wholesaler payment for order flow"), so they jump the queue on everyone else; the cost is...
The top hedge funds certainly do spread their trades out amongst various brokers. There are many reasons for this, but I think that keeping the...
For equities, I don't think that any of the NSDQ or BATS exchanges, or NYSE's own ARCA, have any such rule. A while back, I did notice that some...
There is no blanket regulation against simultaneously posting a bid and an offer in the US. Some exchanges used to prevent prevent it; I'm not...
Everything I post is verified by documents on IB's own Web site and its SEC filings. "Timber Hill provides an automatic execution service for...
If you're on here advertising a brokerage you own or work for, could you at least be transparent about it? Also, ET may want you to pay something...
Interactive Brokers doesn't need to sell order flow when they can just give it away to Timber Hill. Timber Hill is one of the world's largest...
I would not use an introducing broker, all other things being equal -- in my experience, they tend to make it difficult to solve technical...
Unfortunately, the Sterling system I wrote is split across a lot of pieces, and I haven't used it in years, and it's very customized based on the...
I've automated completely many platforms in the course of trading, including Sterling (checking every few seconds to see whether it's up and, if...
If insider trading were "completely legal", public equities will merely become a vehicle for unscrupulous executives and a handful of their...
http://www.tradersmagazine.com/news/ecns_and_exchanges/high-frequency-firm-said-to-be-finalist-to-run-nasdaq-price-feed-112957-1.html For those...
Correct de jure, but wrong de facto. IB's complex parent structure, in addition to the retail broker/dealer, owns a massive proprietary trading...
Quote stuffing and spoofing imply different, but related, intentions, although they can certainly take place simultaneously. Quote stuffing is...
IEX's 'small market share' excuse for queue jumping is absurd; what's to keep other exchanges from this model if IEX gets it approved? In fact,...
There is a major difference between offering a product that carries out its basic intended function, and one that does not. All the non-trading...
Are you talking about US equities, as a US citizen or resident? If so, it probably won't make a difference, THIS YEAR, unless you have wash...
Let me try the link again -- it seems to have been transformed oddly in the earlier version -- maybe something to do with the ET upgrade:...
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