I entered a more aggressive ask than the NBBO, but it didn't update the NBBO. It didn't even show up in the level 2 order book. edit: nevermind,...
There's a bid at $6 with a min fill size of 1k and the last price jumped to way below it without hitting it. How is that possible, other than...
You can enter any min trade size you want on IB's order entry form, and I guess you can also enter any display size you want. So they must have...
What's going on here?
I'd expect anyone who's really been successful over 21 years of investing to be too rich to waste his time with sub-$1000 trades and selling...
Negative real yields on 30 year bonds are unsustainable. But that bubble can't deflate without making a lot of banks insolvent. The fed will be...
But in the actual transaction history it looks like they charged considerably more than 0.025%. It's like 0.05%-0.2%
I was off by one decimal place in the OP. It's actually 0.025% which is not too bad.
I bought the OXY 4.1 Feb01'21 at 75 yesterday
That page on IB says, "Should the market start to move lower, the bid will remain aggressive until filled instead of remaining pegged to the bid....
Would that really be a viable strategy? If it were profitable to push it up and hit it, it would be profitable for a third person to hit both...
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=613 How do I make an hidden order that just always outbids the NBB by one cent, no matter which...
Compared to paying half a cent per share on $100 shares (0.005%) it's 50x
IB charges 0.25% for trading bonds, which is prohibitively expensive when you just wanna flip them for a few percent more. What other brokers...
Do bonds ever become hard to borrow? How do you know what you're paying to borrow the bonds? Do you even have to borrow bonds to short them, or...
Nobody lets you just borrow their stock for free to short it.
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That's pure voodoo. There's no mechanism. You had lots of degrees of freedom to select a month and a start date to find whatever spurious...
Inflation has been negative the last three months. Fed shouldn't touch interest rates. They should let the market go sideways for a while or...
So my net worth is 6 times what I would be looking to spend on a house, but banks still want to charge me 3.5% for a 15 year fixed. WTF? It's...
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