He's with teachmetotrade.com. I think he's currently pretty busy putting the finishing touches on a new version of the Tradeseeker realtime...
I've been trading with IB on a daily basis for one and a half years now and if you define "going down" as a full system outage on their part (i.e....
As stated earlier on this thread, IB has globally disabled all active routing functions of ARCA. So even if they don't flag orders as IOC that...
That's basically how BEST_ECN works. Your problem was most likely due to the technical difficulties that ARCA experienced which prevented it from...
> If i consider trading 50 shares of nasdaq stock all the > time, will i have problem getting filled ? Except in highly liquid stocks you...
The discrepancy with NYSE stocks are likely due to IB's feed only reflecting NYSE quotes and prints while mostother services will aggregate quotes...
This problem was fixed a while ago. Unfortunately, IB went way beyond what was needed in the process by crippling those ECNs functionality instead...
The reason why trading odd lots on the NYSE is no longer possible with IB is that some people took advantage of the special treatment that is...
After hours and in the pre-market session the uptick rule is not in effect. IB's ECN quotes seem to have been changed recently not to show odd...
I think what you're missing is that trading on the NYSE is about more than just you and the specialist. It's not like the specialist participates...
This is simply about the mechanics of a market order. If you submit a market order on the NYSE you are due an immediate fill at a price that can...
The reason that stocks that are being added to the S&P500 often ramp towards the close of trading is that lots of index funds track the index and...
To add to qwik's response: By definition there cannot be any out of market executions on the NYSE. The NYSE is a centralized continuous...
Why express an opinion on things that you obviously don't have any experience with? Pressing the bid is often a very effective way to get...
You cannot use ARCA/REDI to hit anything anymore except orders on their own books. All marketable orders without corresponding liquidity on the...
This used to be possible by using REDI or ARCA until about two weeks ago when IB decided to take that functionality away from their customers by...
E-minis are free until September when the CME will start imposing a $10 per month fee. Their data feed is very fast and reliable in my experience....
limbo, daytrading is not an invention of the 90s. There's been daytrading every since there's been exchanges. The space may be more crowded now...
There seem to be vastly differing practices in how daytrading in cash accounts is handled by different brokerages. Some don't care while others...
praetorian, I own both of them but so far have only had the time to read the first one. Most of what's in there is still valid today. Many of the...
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