Recent Content by Lee-

  1. If you knew the market was going to turn in a week

    Options are generally priced based on the market's expectation of a move over a given time. Therefore, if you can predict direction, time frame,...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 31, 2018 in forum: Options

  2. Quant Cofounder for Options Arbitrage

    Sounds like you've finally learned the first part of what this forum has been trying to tell you all along. Now you need to learn the 2nd part....
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 31, 2018 in forum: Options

  3. Connection (login) to broker via TCP with PHP

    I never used mt4, but I thought that was one of those systems where you log in to mt4 and then mt4 connects to the broker. If you need to connect...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 23, 2018 in forum: Automated Trading

  4. Connection (login) to broker via TCP with PHP

    You don't see a webpage when accessing because it's not intended to be accessed by a browser. You're either going to need to use the API provided...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 22, 2018 in forum: Automated Trading

  5. Option scraping help

    So the app is run by a client and the client downloads the option data directly or the client downloads option data from your server? If the...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 19, 2018 in forum: Options

  6. How to do buywrite / sellwrite in IB TWS?

    Or if you don't want to do keyboard shortcuts. Directly to the left of where it shows the margin impact is the "advanced" button. Click that and...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 19, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. Only lose 1%

    If your broker pays interest on cash balance, I wouldn't say it's doing nothing. You could also buy bonds or cds if your broker supports that.
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 17, 2018 in forum: Trading

  8. What is the purpose of overfill protection?

    While I can't say for sure, but consider a case where their order routing system is acting more aggressively. Possibly having orders exist, at...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 12, 2018 in forum: Order Execution

  9. Which are the best books to understand stock market and stock charts?

    ;)
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 10, 2018 in forum: Risk Management

  10. Dynamically exported dialog box (MFC Extension dll)

    I don't see a reference to TakionDialog in the document you linked. I'm assuming the CDialog that it is inheriting from is the CDialog from MFC....
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 5, 2018 in forum: App Development

  11. Did IB just screw me or was it the exchange?

    TWS has it's problems. Just today I was trying to do a combo order and it wasn't showing me bid/ask prices even though I could see quotes in the...
    Post by: Lee-, Oct 2, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  12. IB adaptive algo - how effective is it?

    I use adaptive on illiquid option orders occasionally. When I've set it to patient, sometimes it would take maybe 30+ minutes to sort of walk the...
    Post by: Lee-, Sep 24, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  13. % ppl who earn >$1 million cumulative from trading over a lifetime?

    The numbers are brought down by those who graduate with degrees in fields that are not well paid. Also consider the people who don't actually...
    Post by: Lee-, Sep 12, 2018 in forum: Trading

  14. open book level 2 or market maker pricing

    I'm not aware of an OPRA feed that contains it, but if you'd like a specific references:...
    Post by: Lee-, Sep 6, 2018 in forum: Options

  15. open book level 2 or market maker pricing

    A quote feed can include customer vs non-customer flag. Of course this doesn't tell you that it's a MM.
    Post by: Lee-, Sep 5, 2018 in forum: Options