I think the colloquial thought is that institutions have advantages against retail traders, but wouldn't any exploitable pattern be quickly...
Traders have to be careful not to fall into the mental fallacy of using THEIR position as a variable in their market position. Whether you're...
So far I like to observe volume spikes as confirmations or exhaustions of trends, but I'm starting to wonder what the logic is behind it, given...
A machine could probably parse useful information out of the order book, but how could a human? Sure, I can see that that massive sell order is...
Basically, if there's a large spread and I'm looking to buy for example, I could either take the ask immediately, or sit at the bid and wait for a...
Reading the documentation for some of these order flow indicators; it's unfinished if it doesn't breach the price level?
If anybody wants to start a futures exchange based on my temperature this past weekend, you'll get some volatile action
It would seem with spoofing or otherwise, or the fact that at any moment either side could get taken out faster than you can blink, there's no...
Everybody's got a version of these, which if you don't know, is basically a candlestick with all of its constituent trades broken down and graphed...
Buying a Call and shorting vs. buying a Call and a Put. They're both delta neutral, but do they perform differently? Does the greater cash...
High prices are good for energy companies, but at some point, high prices affect costs for consumers and companies.
Since the effects of Vega increase as one goes farther and farther in time, does that mean if one wanted to profit off of a correction following...
I feel like sometimes I put in at a tick, wait a bit, see the bid/ask spread apart with my order in the middle, but it doesn't get filled, and...
I can leg into a spread manually by trading the legs, but what is IB or any other broker doing if I were to put in a limit order for the spread?...
Someone mentioned that production drove demand, and not the other way around recently, and I swallowed it without really thinking about it at the...
As with IEX, and then Chicago adding its own speedbump, and NASDAQ mentioning the idea of older orders being given some special priority over...
Whether it's refining your automated system, refining your mental hangups, working out a new system, or just studying a new market, what are you...
Only answer I can see is the eventuality of a Universal Basic Income.
I'm currently using IB. They have a "US Value Bundle" data subscription: "A BBO alternative that will deliver aggregated quote, trade, volume, and...
I know their price action is generally identical, 1 ES tick ~ 2.5 SPY ticks. However, sometimes I see a volume spike in one and not the other. I...
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