Recent content by catima

We just got it back up now, at 13:30. What a waste of a crappy day.

My orders just got canceled, half an hour early!

Just got this over the messenger: INET reports approx. system come back at 12:00 PM EST (not 11:00 AM EST) Thats awsome. I hope they have the good sense to cancel all the orders.

Seems like it, its been down for an hour, and I got 12k stuck on the bid. Do I pre-cover ? Will they get filled ? We'll neeeeveeerr knoooww.

Oh, he probably had to pay charts/desk fee/chair fee etc.

The worst I've done is put an offer for 24,000 shares of juniper 10c below the bid instead of above the offer, on what was INCA back then. It wasn't pretty, it was fairly thin back then, so I sent it down about 6 cents when i realized what I had done, i was within 3 cents or so of breaking even...

thats a bit inflated, really. there should be a cap on how much SEC fees you can be charged per trade

That is nice, its a serious money saver, I pay 2k in SEC fees last month, which isn't much comparetively but it'll put a few hundred in my pocket.

I got hit with 1600$ in brut billables, and I know someone who got hit with 45k. Its really terrible, because I didn't enable brut routing or anything, didn't change my configuration, didn't try to route it anywhere.

This clearly does not apply to ETFs however because of "Securities listed on the NYSE, Amex, or a regional exchange (excluding ETFs) ". I was looking at the pricing list last night, trying to figure if brut even charges billables when you're using it on listed, and if its a special order...

Is there such thing as a brut billable ? I am wondering because I just saw a huge backcharge for brut billables, and I had no idea brut charges billables non billables on amex.

I did use to send them to regionals (bosx, chx), and I do use NYSE as well (its nice and cheap) however I get billed .005 for regionals and NYSE doesn't fill as well as amex (at least on the ETFs I trade) Appreciate the suggestion tho :)

I trade ishares ETFs, and I do get billables after 2 minutes, but so far the size of the order or going short hasn't been an issue. Is this a new development ?

Does anyone know if there is a company out there that provides flat amex fees (preferably under 2$ per 1000) and non-refreshing amex for ETFs ? I trade ETFs a lot and I notice that while quite a few people refresh their orders, theres a large number of traders that do not, and its becoming quite...