i second that, after being front-run countless times by 0.1 cent improvements on ISLD, and having occasionally scared the sh*t out of the other...
it's the expiration day minus 8 calendar days -- except when it happens to be a holiday etc. - jaan
well, i have accounts with both, and have dealt with both customer services several times. my experience is that they both suck bigtime --...
actually, the most characteristic trait of a chaotic system is not the great amount of variables/parameters (some chaotic systems are very...
a minor point: i think that, by most standards, between 1% and 5% is far from being astonishingly precise, because these numbers define a range....
good to see you back in these quarters, darkhorse! let me just propose one more rule for you (that i've learned the hard way myself using boards...
about a year ago a colleague of mine had a look at the traffic, and it was definitely not encrypted. could be that they have changed it since, but...
i just went ahead & tried to enter a 3 decimal place order with datek. no go: "Sorry, 50.111 is not a tradable price for MSFT . Orders must be...
good luck with that. last week i too had to explain to a IB rep what a base currency is -- it took 5 messages back and forth before i succeeded....
alanm, yes, i basically agree with you, except with this: ...because encryption, if implemented properly, will render packet sniffing useless,...
fyi: that would not be a lot more secure than the email statments, because - to the best of my knowledge - the TWS communications are not...
are you also amazed every time someone claims the earth is round? :) but seriously, i don't think the size of the system has anything to do...
heh, DT-waw, do you have some "inside information", or are you just learning from others' mistakes...
hehe, i'm not complaining :) however, i don't think they are the best markets for random entry (that's what marketsurfer was talking about), are...
yes, but only on a trending market. on a sideways market there won't be enough winners to cover the trades that stop out. - jaan
that's very interesting, care to give some examples of such systems? myself i've been developing (equity) systems for about 3 years, yet i cannot...
to me it seems that the P/L is calculated based on the last trade price except when the last price is outside the best bid/offer, in which case it...
IMHO, if a system requires sub-second executions in order to be profitable, it is not robust enough to trade. - jaan
your question prompted me to look at our (net) cents per share distribution for the last 6 months, and the results were pretty "unimaginative": a...
hmm... in my experience it's the other way around: ISLD cannot lock the market, but nothing prevents MM-s locking against an ECN. so if an MM...
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