If the NBBO has a wide bid-offer spread, then whatever option exchange you'll trade at, you'll get the same fill price. If you send your order at...
I don't think PFOF leads to suboptimal execution. In general, it's mostly transparent for the retail trader. A lots of retail brokers are using...
PFOF is the real deal. Retail order flow has a great value. As long a the retail trader is getting the right price at the right time, and the...
A Market order directed to BOX and a Market order directed to CBOE will result with the same fills due to the NBBO constraint. You cannot have a...
That's why I started by saying 'To simplify'.
To simplify, for 1 contract opened, you have one opening buyer and one opening seller. One is thinking that the underlying will be up, and the...
I don't think 'scalping' and 'letting the winners run' can go together. Unless the term 'scalping' means something different for you than what it...
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In that order: 1) Back-test your strategy with historical data, many years at least. 2) Paper trading in real-time. 3) If 2 doesn't work, go back...
It's Price-Time priority during the opening matching algo at the MX (for the scenario described by the OP). There is no such thing as MM priority.
Why not IQFeed?
I suspect that the 44K order was a Market-at-Open order and that IB showed it as a limit order at the TOP (theoretical opening price). At the...
Good job wabu!!!
I have done it once. I was taking nothing for the first 20% of profit, and 50% after that, +2% flat annual fee.
I agree with you. Some people learn faster than others. The OP seems to have a dream (of becoming profitable). He may gets there one day, but for...
It's better to try and fail and be sorry, than not to try and regret. Worst thing is not trying. It's only money after all...
I'm not in a position to give you advice, but it's better to be happy with how much you have done than to be sad with how much you have left on...
+6.67% for one day and you call it a 'Fail'!!!! I'll be glad to have that daily type of 'Fail'. I want to fail too...
IB is well known to be shit for market data. It's either you live with it, or you use a real market data vendor. I'm with IB for trading (order...
More details would be helpful understanding what you refer to.
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