I think I've got it: you mean that the IB paper trade clearing mechanism allots 100% of the market demand (which is at or beyond your LMT price)...
Small sizes? Liquid stocks? Ouch! Those relative terms... I'm in for between 100 and 500 shares, in stocks that trade between 1M and 6?M daily....
As I'm scalping, "a few cents" IS the trade. What's more, if the trade is not hit and the market moves away from me, I've not only missed the dime...
Yeah, I've seen that, too, but managed to develop "work-arounds" that allowed me to set up for live trading w/o issues. So far. But btw, make...
I am thinking of returning to the relative safety of scalping, and while re-tuning my methods, I *seem* to have noticed that the IB paper trade...
Another possibility is that there are not actually trades being made, but bids approaching asks (for example) and then the asks being moved up...
I've been unable to log onto 884 for two mornings, and this morning, the prior 883 (883.3?) bounced me the first time. No known material change...
OKay, while I have to agree with the premise of the thread, that douchbag.com thread is just a HOOT. "Uberdouche"??? Ohmigod. Major hilarious....
That's so wild... I was just reminded of an Einstein quote this morning: "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its...
You're wrong. You're trying to make him feel good. I'm trying to keep him solvent. The market will eat delusions like "I'm great at making money"...
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And the 64 bit bus. Big fat highway.
There's a bunch of different ones -- just Google it, and see what strikes your fancy.
You've gotten some great advice here: 1) incorporate automatic stops/brackets 2) focus on one/limited instruments but the biggie for me is that...
hit the IB website for past seminars, specifically on Order Types. Should answer your question in about an hour/90 minutes or so. PLUS you get a...
I think you described the situation adequately.
So who trades from Indy?
Poetry, man. Just poetry.
(I think this is my first post on ET. Sheeesh.) NathanG, there's some great (if ho-hum gee-whiz boring) info in the replies to your post. Read...
like, "ping"
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