yep he is making money still The rebate on the cap is one of the main keys for him though. Robert Tharp
Just a quick point here (since we are sometimes accused of promoting more trading to bring in more commissions to the firm(s). The cap is cap to the trader, so any shares they trade in excess of 2500 per trade do not make the firm any more money at all...it is merely a way for the traders to save money. (I know you guys are aware of this, but some of the readers may not be).. So if everyone want to trade 2400 shares at a time (or less), that is fine with us!! Net trader profits is what we want. Don
Don, I know you,Robert & myself all feel the same way about P & L. Let the traders make P & L and the commissions will take care of themselves! Anyway, I will be on vacation from March1-10 , so I will be off the boards at about 5pm today. Gene Weissman Lieber & Weissman Sec.,L.L.C. gweissman@stocktrade.net
I am a bit confused here. From what I have read here on the threads, you are making it sound as if Echo is a franchise operation. Echo isn't a franchise are they? I thought they owned their own firm...am I wrong?
ECHO definitely is not a franchise, he is referring to another competitor of Echo and Bright that you may or may not know is a franchise.
I will ask Mr. Tharp or Jeff D. to respond. I originally thought Echo was not franchising....but I have heard a different story as well. Let's hope that they have not gone that route.....??
Don, I asked the head office and I can assure you that they are not a franchise, and I am shocked by the level of unprofessionalism that you display in trying to start rumors here to that effect. Every Echo trader is registered with Echo and all fall under the same organization. Please do not let your haste to start rumors about your competitors get in front of your good judgment about doing your homework or calling Echo to check facts first. Read this thread near the bottom on which firm is a franchise http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3235 Robert
I just spent 20 minutes on the phone vehemently defending ECHO (not that you / they need my help)...and I felt that I was being lied to by a guy who says that there are seperate entities (LLC's) (franchises). As you know, I promoted Echo over (xxx) because we all know that franchising causes major problems for traders. So if there are in fact no other LLC's involved with Echo...then I am actually very glad. I prefer the "friendly competition" over the nastiness of others. I am serious about this, and am sorry that it was mis-interpreted.
ISLD beats NYSE & NYSE+ many times over on listed, and also makes premarkets/postmarket trading possible. Also, you pointed out an essential flaw in SLK being one of the largest clearing agents, then offering their huge inventory for internal cross match vs sending the orders out of their house to other clearing agents. Let's view this: SLK has dozens of brokerage firms of all composition and sizes (Hedges, Mutuals, Proprietaries, Institutional, Floor and Specialist accounts, etc.). Hence the natural objective of yielding additional profit from self clearance or similar objective. Redi+ is their trading platform, and has been so sufficiently trashed on this forum that you only need search on "redi" to see how thoroughly out of date it is. Redi is also an ECN (see above component mixture of their inventory origin). Internal match was sold to the "investing public" as a "superior" means of "obtaining best bid/offer". The reality is far from that based on the comments from the traders who have shared their personal insights, experiences and questions. Basically its detractors out weigh its supports by a factor of over 3:1. Anytime, in fractions of time, anytime an order whether of size or 100shares is held up within a computer matching exchange instead of being posted publically and shown immediately on its tranch (level within the Level 2's & Level 3's) then the marketplace doesn't know about it. Hence, no one is really aware about your order. Since the "house / SLK" holds that order, you can be sure those customers (including house traders) who are more favored than the average customer / brokerage client, are NOT getting the best bid/offer. Since these customers (us traders) of these brokerage firms / customers to SLK are 2 steps removed from SLK, then NO ONE REALLY Cares whether or not you're meeting your profit/stoploss goals! So your comments regarding 1sec / 5sec delays should be avoided at all costs. Redi ECN, well it speaks for itself. Uh, how did they get the money to buy ARCA? (Hint, take a look at your balance sheets)