Can you honestly say that you spotted #1-3 at the actual time of them happening? To me that would be almost to good to be true. If you did can you...
Your question has no easy answer, any financial market of decent size has many and diverse agents operating in them. For listed US stock options I...
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I would think that what you have seen is that good traders take stops when down 2-3% in a particular position. that is different then using only...
I would be very surprised if any system could be profitable _without_ a general market component. A very significant part of a stocks movement is...
it does include ECN fees: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/commission.php?ib_entity=llc
Well I was merely using the concept of a business card as proxy for the idea of a real career in a business.
Prop (Proprietary) Trading usually refers to market activities with the firms (Brokerage Firm, Investment Bank, Bank or Trading Firm) own money...
IB's rates at $0.005 per share is awesome for smaller traders (less then 1 million shares a month) and hard to beat. Many fund pros pay a lot more...
"The pricing is essentially dictated by the volatility market as well as that of the underlying" What is the volatility market?
$0.07 per share average commission is too high. You can do better then that....
"how on earth will a market maker hedge a position? There are related products, but I agree that it would be hard for "delta-neutral" market...
"Selling volatility is short vol+gamma." I would disagree with that. If you want to be short vol and only vol you can hedge gamma. One way to...
If you buy or sell an option you will have several different risks: Vega (exposure to chages in volatility), Rho (exposure to changes in interest...
and yes there are market makers on Globex that are also market makers in cash, for sure
On a market like the Globex there are many different players and to make a complete model that incorporates them all would be very complicated....
Lets make a simple model: you trade against a market maker who makes two sided markets against the "cash" market based on one end user customer of...
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