Recent content by wilson1

The difference in price today between front month and next month out is simply the interest rate (lending rate) plus expected dividends. Low interest environment plus lower dividends can cause abnormal back month activity which shouldn't matter to you unless your trading futures vs options or...

In the future business its pretty transparent not like the world of NYSE. Orders that arive at the exchange are processed by algorithm so the only latency you see is between you and your broker and the broker to the exchange. The advantages that the big guys have is pure bandwidth and direct...

IB is on of those brokers that keeps their stop book at the firm rather than with the exchange. When IB sees your price triggered it shoots the order in as a market order. As for your regular market orders they are sent in as Market Protected as would anyone elses. I learned the hard way:)