I've been trading today still routing to ISLD....sending a bit above ask on buys and a bit below bid on sells. So far fills seem to be pretty...
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I am only going by what ISLD is saying in their docs. The key here is that an ECN can trade through or cross on quotes, but *not* if the ECN does...
:-) I've built similar situations like this myself, turning profitable options into straddles. Haven't done it with this pair, but if I were...
With the rules saying that markets cannot cross or trade through the spread, it seems to me this slows down any market to match the slowest...
Maybe someone who knows better can set me straight, but it appears to me that ISLD is tackling the problem by saying that all orders sent there...
Yes, QQQ will trade on ISLD. Their solution was to make all orders non-display so that their quotes will never cross other quotes in the market (I...
Could be. Then again, maybe we can get all the traders to agree to rotate to a seasonal ECN...one for the summer, one for the fall, one for...
And that's the point of trading Q's for me...liquidity, narrow spreads, and instant fills. I have very limited experience on the NQs. But from...
Yes. The majority of my trades consist of "chipping" the Q's, and I rely on the ISLD book for that. In my style, I always nail the ask for buys...
oops....sorry stock777, I didn't see this thread before I posted a new subject. I faxed my testimonial tonight, which I assume Island is...
A lot may have changed since I first opened my IB account (couple yrs ago). But in my experience and from what I've heard, the longest step is...
http://www.scottrade.com/streaming_quotes.asp You can also use the scottrade stream as the quote source for QuoteTracker (also free), and while...
Or maybe it was just the Philly Fed. Just guessing... --Derek
Hmm...I guess I must have missed the indicators chapter in E&M ;-) --Derek
Except that in this whole discussion, I think that we are talking exclusively about pattern day trader accounts with *over* 25K equity. I didn't...
Someone told me that they still do not understand how specifically Bear Stearns came to a trading call, so I'll give an example with numbers...
I've been racking my brain on this and talking to some people and here's what it sounds like to me: "Equity with Margin Value" basically means...
More clarification on the "rule" that Bear Stearns (clearing firm for my Tradestation account) just started applying that generated my day trading...
I got the same email from IB. Something happened to me today at one of my other accounts (TradeStation) that smells related. I got a small day...
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