Recent content by pfranz

I thought it was clear that selling order flow was not the ONLY revenue. They also have a fee for margin trading, gain from interest on money you leave with them, and so on. I didn't mean to say anything bad about them (I don't know them), just pointing out a possible problem about a common...

An article on robinhood.com clearly stated that they sell order flow (what a surprise). This can (but not necessarily) result in a hidden commission for customers, you should know whom they sell it to. But you'll never know, as you don't with any other broker, including the high commission...

thanks.I'll look again for missed messages like yours

Today I can't use any IB Gateway prior to 936.9 If I use an earlier version (tried 926.5, 933.5), it correctly logs on but on the API settings tab there is only a message "API access is disabled". Is there anyone out there using a gateway older than 936.9?

Paper short ES at 1777.50. The Halloween short goes on...

Covering my paper short from about 1761 at 1742.50 +18.50 drawdown=87pts more or less let's see who gets the worst drawdown between me and pinkman :)

Which is the wrong side of the market? He caught some small down moves and was positive 9 months out of 12 las year, according to him. We don't know how much positive/negative were his months,but his methodology seems to work. Surely it doesn't look similar to pinkman's strategy: he has stops...

I'm still seeing market going up (at the moment), these down moves looking like shakeouts

Not this time.Good call,drownpruf

Don't know about roll-offs,but no doubt every positive number is a joke. Since markets are now relying on a fake economy, good fake numbers should keep markets up.

Agree. Unemployment rate was 6.7% better than expected, so no need to plounge. Looks like a shakeout to bump longs. Anyway, let's see.

Everything (from yesterday) seems to indicate we'll go up

I don't know quantitative finance,but in general when I see "best signals" trades they go wrong.We're still far from 49,anyway.

You'll find that it's true, if initial period is down then whole period will be more often than not down,but what I say is that it's pointless,useless,silly for the reasons written by fail3ed_trader.