Here is one. I am on the bid and offer wti on ice 3 tick spread eg. 45.31x 45.34, someone lifts my offer and I hit the 45.32 x 45.33 nymex offer....
I would say true arbs are not available to retail however stat arb strats are. Retail has higher round trip costs and higher latency so you would...
No you are wrong. Newwurldm is correct. Pair trading is a subset of stat arb not equal. For example you may have a start arb trade in a nat gas...
Correct. I could buy Dec & June 6 month calendars and sell 12 month Dec. I could buy ice brent sell cme brent. I could go on.
I am done with IB and voodoo margining. I want exchange margining, imo IB is not setup for spreaders.
You just have to be patient or you will lose money, it is as simple as that. A lot of it comes down to how committed and serious you are about...
very unlikely that a baller will be using a retail platform. much more likely using a pro front end.
you can quote both sides no problem. we don't have any probs with quoting unless we go over 1000:1 quote/fill ratio. sometimes an issue if you are...
not following your logic here. Vendors will naturally promote whatever they can sell. If they think they can sell TA methods then they will do...
#logicfail. have you considered that finding on example of a rogue vendor using a type of strategy does not mean that the strategy has no use?...
no it wasn't that that made me chuckle it was when you wrote 'most winners in the market think similar to me'.
lol thanks for the chuckle.
A defence of 'everyone else was doing it' is unfortunately not a defence. Although there were likely other spoofers in the market what Sarao was...
congrats austin and I agree with what you have written.
Horses for courses. Whatever works best for the individual.
This is about the time of year the 'gurus' come out and say they are done for the year. #seasonaltendency
i don't get it you were a long way onside. You didn't bank some profit and let it come back and take you out for a large loss?
Yes an autospreader will put you in a queue but as it works your price it will likely not be at the front. You would never use an autospreader to...
there are parallels between subsets of players in both industries. Of course consistently profitable trading is very far removed from addicted...
an interesting thread. There is definitely money to be made in trading and business analysing why humans do what they do and positioning yourself...
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