The market has been rigged since its very inception many decades ago. This is not news. I think everybody who trades the market, professionally or...
A warning to the gold shorts perhaps. Sorry, if gold gaps to $1500 one morning, you will be liquidated in short order if money is not wired by...
How is this news? I guess for the 'masses' who are not even the slightest bit knowledgeable of the current market structure. Everybody knows HFT...
Good to know. Basically, even though fees are displayed in a foreign currency, the actual fees are always charged in base currency and debited...
There is nothing to force it to track the underyling. Prices move when people trade it and push prices up or down depending on buy or sell side...
I'm saying that there is no arbitrage opportunity to keep prices in check, if there is no physical delivery requirement. The futures market is a...
For IB, do they charge data subscription fees in the displayed foreign currency or do they charge the base currency equivalent and is debited from...
But physically settled stock futures can also be settled in cash if you just manually offset the contract before expiration. This is why many...
It is. Physically settled stock futures can be made to act like cash settled stock futures by closing the contract near maturity before taking...
I dont understand what you are disagreeing on? I'm not disagreeing traders can trade whatever they want. You can go back to trading tulips or...
It was funny but that slapstick scene was a little drawn out and over-extended. We get the point, move on already.
No, I'm not trying to dig into philosophy of good or bad or useful or not useful. I actually find it plain sucks or is not useful at all. As...
Nobody is saying anything is evil. Its just that, that _is_ essentially what it is, to put it bluntly. For an average trader they don't care what...
I'm not on board with what you mean by the part about risk. And the futures very often track the underlying in price movements in real time....
Interesting that Steven Madden shares SHOO, which are still trading on the Nasdaq, is up more than 3000% since 1994 and had a conspicuous...
I get that you can use this extra 'tool' of a futures contract for hedging purposes. Say you want to do a long/short position. Or maybe you want...
That is more of an academic study trying to understand the inner workings from an outside perspective. But it doesnt address the main issue...
THere are still designated market makers on the NYSE and Nasdaq. Their job is to step in when the market is thin or when there is a big order...
My understanding is still novice as to the mechanics of market making. A designated market maker is the buyer or seller of last resort. They...
Sorry if this post is convoluted. But essentially, how does market making work? Essentially Im trying to understand the mechanics of market making...
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