Weird journal. If my strategy is losing money for more than a few weeks in a row I'm already cutting my size and losses. Size should be down to...
Virtu famously lost money on only one day out of 5 years. It's definitely possible to be green every month.
Even though I found a broker willing to open the account, I discovered a fatal flaw in the idea of holding the account in the US: BEAT....
I've inquired with 3 brokers about whether they could open an account for a US C-corp where one shareholder is Canadian resident. So far, One...
Thanks, I am in touch with him. The rest of your post, I don't really understand how it relates to my question.
I've opened many accounts with US brokers using my Canadian passport. So it's clearly the part about being resident that makes the difference....
Thanks for the link. As I mentioned, I do high frequency stuff so I can't use just any old broker. IB definitely falls in that category, they are...
I've been trading US equities professionally for nearly a decade now. I've been offshore to optimize taxes but now I'm looking to move back to my...
The incredibly obvious solution to this problem is to design the exchange engine such that erroneous executions are not matched in the first...
You don't get it. The problem is when the broker doesn't calculate the cap properly and you can't even buy at the ask. This can happen for any...
It becomes a problem when the broker's cap calculations are screwed up and they stop you from trading for no good reason. Worst case scenario, big...
For orders that are routed to an exchange I think it would make a lot more sense for the exchanges to implement the price caps instead of brokers....
This is fantastic! I've added you to my NTP cluster. Lowest ping of any server in my list currently.
Just do it for free, then you'll have nothing to worry about.
OP question as I interpreted it was about margin interest ("I owe the full margin rate on the stock holdings right?") Buying power and such is a...
Correct. Assuming you have no other cash in the account, your net cash position would be -50K, and you would pay margin interest on that. The...
non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/BWAPU
I'm not an expert on this by any means but my understanding is the blatant skipping the line hidden order type stuff was all removed years ago...
transaction costs are a huge factor with low priced stocks. they will appear more profitable if you are not accounting this properly
Right, it makes sense that the marketable orders don't go to pearl because of the spreads. It doesn't make sense that Smart Default is almost...
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