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    Fraud: Broker kind of "frontruns" client order. Reporting to SEC?

    Market makers and payment for order flow operators are dark pool market makers meaning they will not display your price as the best bid or ask on other exchanges which you would be looking at and because they are market makers they are not ones that will be taking liquidity they will simply...
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    Ideas For Now-

    deep value stocks (TOP 10) KEP JP QD GLOP HMLP CMCM BPT ICD TNP GASS
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    USD as world reserve currency coming to an end?

    Usually they do as a depreciating currency attracts foreign investment and makes goods more competitive in an international market, the increase in consumer prices stems consumption and meanwhile productivity due to foreign investment increases, the US has numerous investment abroad that have...
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    USD as world reserve currency coming to an end?

    The US economy like the British economy which held the reserve currency both countries now run enormous trade deficits which have been enabled by the fact that their currency and their interest rates no matter how much they borrow do not move because foreign corporations are willing to hold...
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    Where is my mistake?

    you are guaranteed to sell your stock at $136 which you brought at $126.38 loss 38 cents o enter that position your premiums gained were a loss of 40 cents but the dividend of $1.14 means yes you make 36 cents per stock or 0.3% over the period not great but at least its risk free.
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    How to become a money manager?

    minimum capital needed around $2-5 million given you need to be charging between 2-5% management fees in order to get $100,000 p.a. to support yourself and any technology you require. Typically a hedge fund has it's assets in a holding company in the Caribbean through a feeder fund such as...
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    MBS, CDS, Repo, Commercial Paper - BB/Eikon alternative?

    Is eikon a FCM or ISV because their commission $2.90 per million currency traded is incredibly low and I want to know if they act as a broker dealer and can deposit accounts because if not there is more to the $2.90 fee.
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    Dumb Math Question

    ABC is 11.11% overpriced relative to the other security XYZ is 10% under-priced relative to the other security, of course comparing 2 stocks and saying that AMZN is overpriced relative to AAPl just because of a higher stock price is ridiculous you would have to measuring a ratio like P/E to make...
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    Trader P/L 2021

    Took my portfolio from roughly $13,000 to about $32,000 today through schwaub, best performer was buying $5000 of AMC 2025 debt at 16 cents on the dollar now at 75 thinking about China XD Plastics company as a good investment this week was pretty flat and basically just trailed the market.
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    Active Trading

    wasn't referring to HFT but other traders finding statistical anomalies is larger time frames the difference between microseconds and minutes on relative basis is the same as minutes to a fortnight the time period is not actually much of a difference given the only factor change is interest in...
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    Active Trading

    HFT's to my knowledge tend to be highly aggressive and their margins are very low with HFT's like Virtu having a 6% market share in equities but only making 2 million on average per day means that they have very low margins of course Retail traders are not on average going to make money from...
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    Active Trading

    I have heard that HFT's are typically aggressive in the order queue and quick to cancel orders therefore providing a greater chance for others to get to the head of the queue i know my statistics are correct, however i do not see how this would decrease my chance of getting filled or is it that...
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    Active Trading

    sorry some typos in there
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    Active Trading

    When i mean market making i do not mean Investment Bank or HFT and place and cancel lots of orders across multiple markets style I simply put in 2 way limit orders at certain points where there is not much of a queue for example in ES .25 and .75 have often less liquidity than .50 or .00 i found...
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    Futures Trading Venues

    Which broker offers the lowest commission rates and which ISV provider is best for active trading, anyone have any experience with CME direct
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