There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
True. It would be foolish for a broker to not track the patterns of its most successful clients. Why would an IT professional work for pennies as a technical recruiter? They see all the opportunities come through the funnel, and cherry-pick one they take themselves, when the right one comes along. Is anyone here so foolish that they would not watch how their richest acquaintance got rich?
Quite the opposite if you have any ethics. I can't believe many of you are getting sucked into this thread by someone claiming that the PAPER TRADER is front running him. Suggestion to the OP: close your eyes, imagine you're long 5000 shares of stock XYZ. say it out loud three times and then turn on the quote. I bet those damn markets will then front run your imaginary position as well.
One more time: you're not fucking trading with anyone! IB's paper trader links together real market data and then from there, it adds all the other paper trader's orders. What you see is the real market + every paper trader's orders. Besides, who the fuck would waste their time being a market maker for a fake market?
Traderum, You've taken this far enough now. Please start taking your medicine again. I'm sure it will not affect your paper trading.