How would a "newbie" go about obtaining information about the expo, ie how to register and how much it costs and the like?
The expo web site will be <a href="http://www.onlinetradingexpo.com">http://www.onlinetradingexpo.com</a> but the last time I checked, it's wasn't up and running yet.
I checked out the Online trading expo website, http://www.onlinetradingexpo.com/tutorials.htm There is a tutorial with an IB VP "demonstrating IB's proprietary technology for making relative pricing assessments among options series as well as the intelligent order routing used to find the best price among accessible market centers at any given moment" I am thinking about trading options with IB, what is that proprietary technology for making relative pricing assessments among options series ? Didn't know IB offered any tool for options trading other than order entry( I am not even sure I can get an option chain). Regarding the Online trading expo, what's your feedback for those who attended the previous years? Seems like a lot of old re-hashed theories found in books written during the bull market despite what they say. It would be interesting to listen to Linda Raschke and Tony Oz though. But are they bringing anything new during their workshop ? Thanks
I found this info on the RealTick website. Free seminar on Friday at the expo with Dan Gibby, David Nassar and Tony Oz. Only 100 seats. http://www.realtick.com/news/signup.asp Anita Troi
kicking, a new tool with option analytics is being launched for IB. I haven't tested or seen it yet. All I can say it has been written in house and internally people think its quite good.
OTE... Perhaps it should be called the most expensive and longest running advertisement for day trading, day trading firms, day trading/online brokerages and associated software products. Pound for pound, it would be far healthier to protect the desired customers, namely the paying attendees with a healthy dose of "expose" on the irregularities of the day trading / high-frequency (swing) trading phenon. Perhaps, instead of soliciting only vendors and salesmen for their products to give shows and host discussion panels, the focus should include a high percentage of "recent events" which mar the industry, or effect traders, or challenge this method of employ. I'm in direct reference to the SEC changes and characterization or profiling of customers into day-traders. While this significant change "materially" changes the entire landscape, other significant issues regarding the success / failure rates of professional (i.e. licensed) traders and their stories would be far more enriching. Should the program switch over to the web-based brokerages (E*Trade, etc.) then the public will probably respond, but get reamed, yet again. Exposure of the Market Maker trading tactics (which is at odds with public customers winning) verses the Specialist "open-outcry" exchanges would be informative, and spur even greater competition or should we say, hopefully make the markets fair/fairer. Clearly, there are a lot of issues, and one of them, is making the show a place where paying sponsers will pay to access the sophisticated trading public; making a show which both attracts and benefits the paying sophisticated trading public. Clearly by the comments of the previous writers, we are losing our interest in attending this "show"