So what's the rumor on what the bad trade was? I love hearing these kinds of stories. They are like those scary stories people tell around...
Do you have today's trades archived on your blog? I'd be curious to see the recovery from the abuse, as well as the initial beating you took.
I'd give a trader even more credit if he can make $$ with a Commodore 64 and a carrier pigeon. Keep the IT infrastructure cheap and keep the...
I don' t trade through TWS for anything that needs precision. IB will give you bad execution latency, but I'd argue you still need to do your...
"Writing the outline for a book is easier than writing the actual book" is the idea that is similar to what I was trying to get across.
My opinion on this is really simple: regardless of time frame, you can't ignore market microstructure. The more you ignore it, the more it costs...
I don't think there's some document you can read to just do this. I think the best way to do this is to actually experiment and build a few...
The 7 was so boring and awful. It sucked up a month of my life and I've now since forgotten most of it. :-( I know nothing about muni bonds and...
I've measured it; my order acks come back to me in 2-3ms and IQFeed, from what I can tell with downloaded exchange data, sometimes varies between...
IQFeed does a really good job of staying true to market price, change to change on the inside. It's the most accurate that I've seen among the...
Does this mean I can post an order to my floor broker and post a passive buy order at 8.0111 or 8.0112 when the NBBO is 8.01 x 8.02? Or does this...
US Stocks. Increasingly, it seems like I do have to buy the exchange data directly and pay for the exchange feeds. I guess what I can do is...
I did a lot of research on this topic, and tried a lot of different approaches, but I haven't found a satisfactory solution. I looked at...
It's also a handy metric to chart edge decay. When the edge (after all fees) goes from .0020/share down to .0005/share or less, either someone is...
Yeah, his results are nothing to sneeze at. I wouldn't feel bad with those results. :D A read a lot of trader journals on this site, and...
You seem legit. :-) I'm rebate trading trash, personally; in my world, a 9% drawdown would cause a lot of stress and cause me to lose sleep....
Because when the 20-MA crossed the MACD under an ass-face pattern in a market crash, I went long. I just don't understand why the 20-MA crossing...
... The issue is more that those expensive network connections with the lowest latency between Chicago and New Jersey are really gd expensive....
Well, if you benefit from the actions of the overlords that manipulate the dollar vs other potential overlords, I can see what you mean. But in...
Evan, How many customers do you have currently? A ballpark answer is fine. Are there enough customers that someone could switch to your...
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