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Sub-90ms is basically instantaneous unless you are doing some pretty specialized automated trading.

k_t: I'd worry more about the bird that appears to be nibbling on your chart :)

How would they execute it if there is no offer to take? I doubt TMBR makes markets in OTCBB stocks. Presumably, if the order shows it is live, it was sent to NITE, but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for them to work the order manually unless it is significantly mis-priced. You'd probably do...

How could it trade through your price if the exchange was down? Whenever there is a trading disruption, you need to know exactly what happens with pending orders (usually by calling your broker). In general, if there are long outages, I'd expect them to either cancel all orders, or to do a...

1. Just to be clear, you are using the bid for the short and the ask for the buy in determining that your order should be executed, right? That is, if it's: Ticker Bid-Ask BidSizexAskSize AMD 20.50-20.55 10x10 INTC 17.45-17.50 10x10 Sell AMD/Buy INTC needs a spread of $3.00 or less to be...

Don't know if I mentioned this before... Since the Reg. SHO pilot is going to be with us for at least another year, add the A/B/C category to the "contract details" page (at www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/contract_info/... ), preferably right below the "Shortable" item.

alanm said: Do you know of any data source that routinely marks up exchange fees significantly (and has any customers)? JMowery1987 said:eSignal, LMAO!!! Prove it with a link.

As usual, it seems nobody bothered to verify before jumping on the bandwagon. I see no evidence of those charges in the current price list on the web site. Ask yourself why they would charge $155 (which almost nobody would pay) instead of the actual pass-through rate. Does it make any sense...

This sort of thing comes up all the time with "soft" currencies. The government usually fires back at the speculators by making it unlawful to bring any significant amount of the "soft" currency into or out of the country, or just creating a "new Dinar" with a declared exchange rate against...

That addresses partial fills vs. ticket charges. I don't know if MBT charges for cancels/modifys, which is a different issue. Also, it does not address the pacing/MM restrictions, which are exchange rules. My point is that a strategy like trying to sit on the bid and offer, making markets...

It depends on whether you are following the crowd or not. If you're trying to buy a breakout signal that 1000 other people are buying, you'll get a lot of slippage. If you're selling a signal that 1000 others are buying, you might actually get improvement instead.

Biggest obstacle to some strategies is the cancel/modify fees and pacing/MM restrictions.

I didn't get such an email. If it has your correct account number, it obviously cannot be a phishing attack.

If you don't want to ask your propspective firm's compliance officer, call NASDR and ask them. IIRC, you don't have to disclose infractions, for example, so there is obviously some level of crime below which they do not care.

Customers who care, though, would already know and see this without having to read about it here. Also, growth in customer assets is not necessarily indicative of anything. For example, I currently have an account with a broker with a balance sheet so small, it's scary. Yet, it's worth the risk...

Quote from cscott: 1. I'd like my balance or Net Liquidation Value shown at the top right of TWS. In recent versions, there's a feature called something like "dashboard", which docks below the toolbar in TWS, and can be configured to contain many different items, including what you mentioned.

Why post it at all? These threads always turn into nothing but flame wars.

Michael: What you're saying generally makes sense as far as the cash value, but as OT said, it's hard to know how the cash got depleted without the details of exactly what positions were put on and when. In particular, since futures and FOPs are MTM at each closing, that cash value will move...

Quote from Nana Trader: A company with plateform like that never goes broke, common sense. TS market cap will double or triple by mid next year due to major changes going to happen Pump that stock :(

Let me take a whack it it... As others have said, taking off one leg of a spread generally results in increased margin requirements*. So, it is possible to leg into a spread incrementally, but you then have to leg out of it incrementally too. In the following, I'm talking about initial...