Scalpertern, learn to trade. Listen to the veterans on this board and learn to trade. No one is front running your data. Read my first post and my last - you'll learn much.
yes, this is a troll. HFT: Hedge Fund Trader Fool. Its HIGH FREQUENCY TRADES - and you are going to school for finance?
I'm jumping in late, so some of this might have been covered. I am tired of losing money just because I don't have the right positioning. I'm not following your complaint. Did I miss it, are you a member of a prop firm or do you have a customer account? Either way, you decide with in the restraints of your prop deal or your available margin what your positions are. Do all proprietary firms front run your data? It seems they don't have my best interest. When you say data, do you mean your order flow? IF you are asking if your prop firm or broker is doing that, that is not likely. If you are asking if equity market makers can watch your orders after you enter your order and get information from those flows, well yes they can and there is just no way to escape that, so you should focus on more liquid symbols that override the need for a MM in the first place. If you only trade small cap names, MM have more control over spreads. On a side note, what school? I went to NYU. BS-MBA
E trade and Robinhood both sell your data. Maybe because of the way they are setup they make more money if you are not profitable. Robert I go to Lehman College.
Get a grip on your ego. the broker couldn't care an iota about your trades, unless your trades could blow the firm up.