There's an interesting admission implicit in the source article (published in WSJ today) repeatedly referring to Citadel as Robinhood's "biggest...
All excellent points, thanks! More generally, any case in which the client trades only against their broker inherently (and severely)...
One issue with many preferred's is that under an acquisition of the company, the new management can make your shares worthless (or nearly so),...
I am not an accountant but my understanding is that the "disallowed" cost basis should always get pushed to some new position, so you should never...
For those of us who use Ameritrade's more customizable features such as APIs, I'd say that it is good news that it is delayed -- hopefully,...
Nanex Nxcore provides the full OPRA feed including CBOE best bid/offer real time for all US options for a few thousand per month, or just the OPRA...
Off-exchange TRF data does come via the SIP feeds. Nasdaq Level 2 technically means top-of-book for each NSDQ market maker. This has become far...
Thank you for sharing your setup! I don't know if this is helpful at all in your case, but you can host a (much flatter!) server in a major...
NxCore has a beta Linux version and will support it eventually. I use it in non-production cases and it seems to work well. It also runs well...
You are correct, I could have been more clear... I was speaking of heavily-promoted retail forex pure-plays, most of which are offshore and are...
With that size, have you considered trading currency futures instead? In the US at least, futures brokers have much tighter regulations than...
I am undecided on the merits of this petition, but I do find it funny how change.org itself is trying to deceive people about how actively people...
I thin you are right in that the market benefits from crowd wisdom. But keep in mind that the market price of any given stock represents expected...
No, such a limit is fine and probably a good idea from the perspective of safety (e.g. against melt-ups), though such safety matters less in...
It is due to American vs. European expiry, American expiry having higher IV due to early assignment risk, supposedly. I don't know exactly how...
I stand corrected; I was using post-close data from web sites that were erroneous. Today I can see from higher-quality, real-time feeds that the...
My understanding is that SPY options normally have higher implied volatility than do options on SPX, but at the moment it appears that IV (and...
Correct. And the info as to which trades are dark is included in the SIP data and any quote system that chooses to redistribute SIP data with the...
I've experienced this. If the account is SIPC and/or supplementally insured and your account is within the limits, SIPC figures it out. What you...
In my experience, these "shareholder lawsuits" are initiated by attorneys who can legally force investors to sue themselves, since the money is...
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