Recent content by AndyC

Please excuse my late answer... to all guys who wrote me PMs: thanks so much for it!!! Just noticed now that I am able to read them, gonna answer you soon!!! thansk so much, great forum here!!! So: free and cheap ecn stuff :-) : EDGA, curretnly at 0.0007...

oh boy...... "hidden agendas..." .... I recieve a PM and am not even allowed to read it???????????????????????? Enough of this - that is crap. I joined this forum because some great guys I know recommended it to me. But already have seen enough.

This stuff about disabling private messages is total crap... I recieved a PM and even can't read it... I am not here for spaming or advertsiing or whatever. If this stays as it is, I will close my account down - no problem.

Thanks for your answer! I completely understand, that for midcap stuff and all the symbols which are not heavy liquid it makes sense to hit the ecn which provides the nbbo - regardless of how much you pay. Also I unterstand that longer tf-traders do not really care about which ecn the hit...

I just say how I see it: I once used IB, back in the days where I ddidn't understand anything about trading and order routing... Fact is: you pay with IB for 100 shares ~ USD 1. Please correct me if this is not correct. I also used smart order routing. Then I was in London with one of...

o.k. thanks for post Occam I still have to add something here - to make this clear: I trade only SPY and SDS's. Those are very liquid and have a deep big and ask at almost every price level. There is no question about BBO in this kind of symbols. So, again: lets say I go long 10K...

@BOB 111: nice poste man ;-)

IBs Market Maker is Timberhill... You can see it on level 2... Watch it and you will see... Just one phrase: IBs smart order routing is a f*** joke... Stop using it... Do they still not have full ecn passtrough/rebates?

thansk for your post man! HOwever this still doesn't explain why so much guys hit ARCA, Nasdaq, BATS etc. for removin liquidity... Do they not care about the money??? Especially when you trade some size, to pay 0.0025 and more - this is a lot of money... You go long 10K shares and pay 25 bux for...

Hy all First off all please excuse my English, it is only my 3th language and it still has to become a lot better... ;-) I trade since about 2 years and I am on the swtich to start trading fulltime. I used probably a lot of plattforms out there, like LIghtspeed, Sterling, Laser etc...