They probably mean Nasdaq if they're referring to a current trading venue as "Island". Instinet bought Island, then Nasdaq bought the Instinet...
Of course the Black-Scholes equation has something to do with CAPM -- in fact, the second derivation in the Nobel-prize winning 1973 paper starts...
Forex is less volatile (historically at least) than most stocks. That said, the available leverage can make it into a killer if you go lever up...
I think both iqFeed and RealTick Pro can do this, but I'm not sure now as it's been a long time since I've looked into this type of solution. It...
To anyone who comes across this thread, please do NOT give 'botpro' your money. IMO you'd be better off taking it to the craps tables. (Assuming...
It sounds like you probably need to read the contract -- if you have already and what you say is true, then fine. But my guess is that most...
No one place or teacher is going to teach you how to make 100% a year trading. In fact, very few traders or investors can actually earn these...
Although I've never worked for an HFT myself, my understanding is that "true" HFT's connect directly to exchanges from servers co-located in the...
I don't think this is OK, as it's redistribution that your friend probably doesn't have a license for. My guess is that you need to get your own...
I don't think anyone in their right mind, and who has more than a passing knowledge of the stock market, believes any black box works "100%"....
IMO this has become an extremely tricky game as there's effective internalization in options (so the volume you see isn't really the volume you'll...
Also, theocc.com publishes a document called an "infomemo" whenever a major corporate action occurs, which describes what happens to the option,...
Practically speaking, what is the difference between a below-$5million and above-$5million account in the context of portfolio margin? I've heard...
Regarding "survivorship bias" in drug development companies, another thing to take into account is that some companies have gone back to the...
You might consider using FIX, if your broker will let you connect with it. FIX "engines" can be configured to reconnect automatically, and the...
If you really want something that can scale, perhaps FIX would be the way to go, although it's not the easiest thing to implement at first -- it...
Last I checked about a week ago, the short interest on KBIO was in the realm of 400%. So you'd be paying an interest rate of 400% per year just...
Interactive Brokers Group, in addition to the brokerage, owns a counterparty entity -- it's called Timber Hill, and IB's so-called "smart" router...
When "everyone knows" somethings is going asymptotically towards 0, a herd of people tend to short it. Since there are only so many shares...
Levered ETF's/ETN's can be very difficult and/or stratospherically expensive to borrow. And if you're forced to cover due to shares being...
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