Classic ET! Who cares about quality of execution, its the commission that is the most expensive portion of the trade. Too funny.
Nope. Wrong.
The is no such thing as a dark pool for options. All electronic option orders, whether spreads or single leg, MUST be publicly exposed for a short...
If the SEC was really serious about protecting the market from HFTs they only need do one simple thing; make the minimum tick for all stocks a...
OK, I misspoke by saying cross margining when I should have said offset; mea culpa. Offsets are indeed applied to contrasting positions in similar...
RegT is rules based and PM is risked based. Therefore PM will look at 20-30 different risk arrays and choose the most expensive one to apply at...
Ahhh, gotcha. That is not good. My experience with IB is from the stock and options side, which trades in more size and is likely more liquid than...
I know that they offer their platform as a white-label option to introducing brokers and advisors, but don't know why a prop firm would care...
WRONG. IB allows the master account user to create pre-trade allocation instructions based on net liq, avail equity, percentage increase...
IB isn't for sale, now or ever...period. And don't confuse a low stock price, which is basically a popularity contest, with the cash stream...
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Retail clients do not benefit from sub-penny executions in any asset class. The nature of a retail order of small size (say ~1000 shares/10...
The original post referenced trading two different asset classes, stocks and futures. Keep you hedge in the same asset class that trades and...
Things have changed and in today's fully-electronic, HFT environment where trades occur in milliseconds, bust/adjust and auto-liquidation rules...
Bloomberg and Fly on the Wall
Interesting, but lots of products (including SPXpm) have tried to serve as a proxy for SPX without success.
The IB block desk has instant access to the SPX pit and can get markets on anything you want direct from the floor in seconds, with or without a...
IB commissions of 70 cents per option contract and 1/2 cent per share stock apply to all accounts, including individual traders, hedge funds,...
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