Hello all, As i am expanding with my derivative trading in ib, i want to create separate buckets for various strategies i am trading. Reporting...
And here's a 2 lot of verticals from this morning costing me only 1.69 on IB. Nice. Dont know exactly how it happened but would like to.. maybe...
Very good info trader42. Yes, i've done a bunch of cancel replace orders on smart and have seen it only getting charged an extra 0.01; so thats a...
Interesting info. Well.. soon someday they will smarten up and create a unified order book (like the reg NMS did for stock orders; or maybe they...
Thats correct trader42. It stinks; which is why i moved away from IB to TOS about 10 years ago. But now that i am in Canada, TD's got this $5min;...
Good info Robert. Thanks. As for routing spreads to exchange directly i know that ISE and CBOE have spread order books. How would i know where i...
Hello trader42, yes; thats in US. In canada, its close (with TDbank & Tos) but there is a 5$min; so i need to trade in 4 lots to make commisions...
Though TNA & TZA are hedges against each other; you dont want to put ic's in both. Think.. the worst case scenario for either of the ics is a big...
Good one crayon. that 3% is probably before tax :). But even otherwise too much hastle.
bah.. it will be the same for the rest of eternity. And that aside selling naked puts in just about everything is a totally risk free strategy...
My experience with IB orders also validates what you are saying oldnemesis. I have seen IBs orders not appearing on NBBO and ofcourse not; since...
I was testing option fills on tos vs IB. On friday i had an order selling a straddle in XOP in IB for 6.23 for about 15mins around 10AM. Then i...
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Yes. So if you sell a put and cover it later commisions are 3$ vs $22.50. hmm. Also just realized that if assigned TD charges about 40$ for...
Dump win 8 and get Windows 7.
i hear ya..
gamblingman, Good posts here on ET for a change. All the best to you. I am in a similar boat as you are; one thing that helped me...
Vision, Suretrader, virtual brokers, all have has ticket charge for options. Same with TDwaterhouse and Questtrade. In the process of opening...
Are there any other options for option traders other than IB in canada. Not that i have any axe against them but exploring options (tongue in...
+1 Also look at the really old tos chats from the tos archive (go back almost to the beginning of when they started the chats) - specially the...
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