When I was a market maker, I was exempt from marking my orders. I'm not sure what value this has to the exchange or the OCC.
It's my understanding that this is an exchange rule. So if this is that big a deal to you, you need a trading platform that can have an automatic...
Correct. You are expected to properly tag your orders BTO, STO, BTC or STC. Eg. I BTO 100 calls. I then want to place an order to sell 200 calls....
If you are going to use rithmic, they have their own servers and IT hosting. At least they did last year.
In my experience, large drops like this rarely happen when we expect it. I prefer to trade the market we have rather than the one I expect.
I'm not recommending trading futures to anyone with their IRA. Not my place to do that. The question was, how can I use my IRA to trade futures. I...
In general, the sell side jobs that pay salaries+commissions, will expect you to bring in a book of business either from another firm, or very...
I'm 55 years old and have enough funds in my Roth to play. So for me, this is much better than trading in a personal account. Futures are more...
I work for Victor Securities as an Introducing Broker. I have a Roth IRA that I wanted to do some trading in and allocate to a few CTAs. I opened...
We offer Redi ($350/month+MD), Sterling Trader ($230/month+MD) and Silexx OEMS ($600/month for the API including MD) All have APIs. From your...
Interesting. Is that paired with any longs or are you just betting down?
So you are short ES contracts? What have you done to play this? What percentage of your account are you willing to lose if you are wrong?
Each stock is listed on a primary exchange. Route your orders to the primary exchange and get the open or close from those exchanges. These...
It is a tough way to make a living unless your are an automated equity market maker doing large volume. The last time I meet manual traders making...
I'd take that as a winner.
I was a real question. I have used option scanners myself including LiveVolPro. I have had clients use equity scanners. It's not clear to me that...
I only used TWS for a short time. I had issues with option spread orders not going to market, but never equity orders.
Has anyone here made money consistently from these tools?
Not what I expected. Next time it happens, take a screen shot of TWS and TOS and ask IB why your orders are not reaching any exchange or ECN on...
Options or equities?
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