Recent content by Azo47

Happy to be corrected here, but my understanding is that the market makers paying for my order flow provide a tremendous amount of liquidity. What I *think* this means for me, is if I market in and out of a large position, that will displace the price less than if I were to go direct to an...

Yeah, I don’t average $0.02 a share. I take a lot of “paper cuts”. Basically lots of small losses and a couple big trades a day. Other issue is liquidity. I market in and out all day. Not sure I would have the liquidity I need going direct access.

Thanks for the reply. My issue is I average ~15-20m shares a month. So if I switch to a commission based broker, I’ll be paying like $200k/year in commissions at most brokers. So I’m not sure avoiding payment for order flow would be worth it.

What platforms/brokers would you recommend for scalping?

Are your charts slow all day or only for a couple minutes here and there throughout the day? After using TOS for a year, I’ve experienced a number of times where it just slowed down out of the blue, and minute charts just wouldn’t load, then it would resolve after a minute or even a couple...

Without recording it and timing it, I would guess TOS is half a second and Tradestation is ~1.5 seconds. But that’s my setup, which I’m hoping I can change to get it faster.

I am a scalper and do large size/volume. I'm leaving TD Ameritrade for Tradestation to avoid commissions (TD is enforcing the 390 order limit and charges $2 an order). I trade the news and other catalysts that are really volatile, so seconds matter. I just completed my first full week trading...