Legs are being managed separate for profits, right, that was the assumption.
you completely missed the point of legging out of the trade -- that makes the spread irrelevant. Let's say that I'm making the market and take...
No, re-read and you'll understand.
it's about the MM taking the other side of the high prob leg (your long leg == MM short leg) at a price designed to make them a profit higher than...
I think everyone is in agreement that you got filled at the market, using NBBO, so not a scam, even if you didn't get the fair price at the MID....
I think it makes it more likely to hike, but not exactly "on track". The fed also looks U6 which improved a bit: [MEDIA] The fed futures...
I think most investors don't; but some Traders do, and some focus on them exclusively (but I don't recommend that). I think the primary reason...
With NIRP the BOJ is sending a clear signal that it wants investors to move to riskier assets, and NIRP is also a covert way to devalue the...
You mentioned that NIRP will cause "massive amounts of inflation", if that does happen, then Kuroda would have been very successful in meeting the...
The best way to learn exactly how they do it, it's to go work at an HFT firm or hire one of their programmers. Some of the terms you might want...
You don't have to believe anything I say; personally, I'm always skeptic of anything I see on ET. However, after you spend some time learning...
It's the same discussion, intraday patterns and trading in general has changed because the behavior of liquidity has changed. And this it's a...
The HFT liquidity is there only if it's profitable for the HFT to provide the liquidity, when is not profitable, there's no liquidity. HFT's don't...
They were not left on the table, they went to the investor/trader, since they only dealt w/the specialist they got matched at the exchange. Now,...
I think it applies to all FINRA regulated brokers, which is all legitimate brokers in the USA.
yes... however, if you remain under 25k and want to open new positions and the PDT flag has been set, it prevents you from opening new trades for...
What Economists Think About NIRP [MEDIA] [IMG]
From my experience (I don't have collected hard data -- maybe someone can backtest it), I would say the debit spreads are more likely to...
The problem w/that strategy is that you have delta and theta risk, and systemic risk from macro events, econ data, FOMC, etc. all while you wait...
NIRP means even more capital appreciation... sovereign bond bubble anyone? [IMG]
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