1) Yes, we all run across hard-to-borrow shares, usually when the stock has an abnormally high short float. Many of the financial in 2008 were...
OpenBook Scalper wants to make a market with 5% spreads..!!!!
Been in the business over 3.5 years, profitable, would be in the red probably close to a million dollars if I had to pay that rate. I never once...
Apple II GS
Wasn't just a print, was a whole sweep up and down. Was all real, in both stocks. Trying to give me a stroke at 21, I swear...
What the hell was that? Mini flash crash in the Q. Also INTC. My P/L blinked to -4k before coming back and I hit out for $200 loss, within...
Are you sure there wasn't simply a hidden order there? At the time of that print, was .09 the bid or offer? You're saying the size at .09 didn't...
This is very disturbing, very, very disturbing. We must fight this and nip it in the bud. We cannot have corporate media control our lives more...
its saturated and dead, no money there.
So let's say $.50/1000+$1.00 in SEC fees, = $2 roundtrip, vs $.60. Basically the SEC fees are what makes the SPYs non-competitive with Globex ES...
I know that tax wise ES is better, and it's more of a "real" product than a derivative (SPY follows ES), but how is it better cost-wise? I don't...
Geez, you guys are tough! 30 years in the market, only one losing year, very small, at that, and he decides it's time to retire... that's...
Mental toughness.
I fully, wholeheartedly, agree. If spoofers are such a problem, why not just whack them instead of bitch about it? Because it's usually not so...
Trading's serious business. But the hours aren't bad. Being a fulltime daytrader is stressful work that demands full attention and...
I'm not sure equities actually do go up over time. When a company dies and fails, it is taken out of the indicies. Most companies eventually...
I made a typo, said 5 cents per 10000, meant 5 cents per 10000, which is .00005 (quad 0 5). That's the low end, high end is .0004 for low vol...
Your actual cost is > .002? I find it hard to believe but I know nothing about the GS clearing arrangement. Competitive high vol clearing ranges...
My eyes and my fingers.
People are so horribly misinformed...
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