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They left as market makers not as traders. No edge left for locals.

Why?Why not move on? I had a friend that rode a stock from 300 to 1. I asked why she did not sell for months and she said I don’t want to take a loss. I don’t understand that as except for taxes, she lost money the day she bought it. My suggestion is that you learn to take losses and move on...

CME had connectivity issues last night but I was told that was resolved.

I assume we are still talking about Listed Options. I would call all market orders of any kind that is not a "pick off", to many to define, good order flow that a MM can make money off. There is too much focus in forums on what your counterparty will get from your order and not enough focus on...

4 Seems like a lot. What is your main job that requires that?

I took a quick look. Seems too good to be true, so I would be cautious. I would want to know for an account of $100,000, how trades would be allocated, what returns would be for the entire account, not for each trade which is confusing, and what verification they have for past "returns." If...

My mistake, $6600 is correct. Wow, DT margin is only $400.

You are looking at Maintenance Margin on the CME not initial. $6800 is correct.

Unfortunately, these products require a large balance sheet and the relationships in place. You can't do it on your own.

I think that will be the problem, and he knows it. Very few traders have experiance in these products and the ones that do either work for large banks or large hedge funds. He needs to find that talent and draw them away looking for those with an entrepreneurial spirit. Then when you consider...

destriero, You might want to PM sle. He know traders in that space.

They are looking for those that can earn $800k on the allocation per year, you get 15% of that. Plus, the products are not retail oriented.

When you hold a futures position "over-night" where the SPAN margin is $100,000: You have to have $100,000 in equity. Your FCM has to put up 8% more or $8000 from their equity. If your account were to go below zero, the FCMs balance sheet would get hit next. After that, the CME would have to...

I would say early morning index trading is from Asia and then Europe vs heavy stock activity pre-market.

Depends on your broker. With Lightspeed, our servers are down outside trading hours. Many online brokers will hold orders on their server until the exchanges and ECNs open their pipes. We do not as we do not want to "hold" orders.

You would have to ask them. We offer that range on Lightspeed Trader, Sterling Trader Pro and Realtick.

Stocks trade on ARCA and NASDAQ from 4am to 8pm ET.

IMO, this should be this focus for most successful retail option traders. Have a process to predict where a stock will or won't trade over a time period. Then, based on current option pricing, with a process to predict option prices over the same time period, use the option strategy that best...

Does it have to be a percentage? On our platforms, you can enter a stop or stop limit to open. I assume that will work with IB too. Buy 100 XYZ 10.50 Stop.

The CME does not track OI by the cost of each trade.