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    How do large firms and pros place orders?

    Yep the algos are all programmed to do this. Dark books are becoming widely used as well, with this method your trade goes into a pool that no one can look at and sits there blindly until someone elses order matches up with it. Since no one can see the order it won't move the market so alot of...
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    How do large firms and pros place orders?

    Oh yeah, on the less sensitive positions we scanned the IOI screens and would negotiate to take the other side of large orders that were put up.
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    How do large firms and pros place orders?

    I used to trade for a large hedge fund. We had lines to all of the brokers so we could pay them commish dollars and have them work the easy orders. The majority of our trades (millions of shares daily) were done through algorithms on our FIX connections. We used most of the large brokerage...
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    Genesis Investment Partners (Stamford, Ct)

    Looks like this is the training they are giving. Will be interesting to see how many can actually be profitable if/when they get real accounts. Sounds like they designed it to generate commission dollars rather than to make their traders money...
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    Genesis Investment Partners (Stamford, Ct)

    bump...anyone??
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    Anyone ever use RS of Houston?

    If so what course did you opt for and was it worth it? I've been receiving some of their free signals via email for the past few months and they seem to actually be pretty consistent, but I haven't found any independent reviews of their trading courses.
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    Genesis Investment Partners (Stamford, Ct)

    I would be interested too. I turned down an "offer" to join because I felt that the payout was low and that the description of the training and progression to real money sounded convoluted and vague. The simulator thing is all well and good but working 8 hours a day for 3 months without any...
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    Best Broker for Equity Trading?

    Hi All- I've been day trading my accounts profitably for a few years using TD Ameritrade and Scottrade platforms. I'm tired of the crappy executions and high commissions, which I figure have probably cost me thousands over time. I have decided to move to a more professional platform, what...
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