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yeah.. looks like it is tickit. maybe TT repackaged and rebranded the thing. Good for TT to integrate the features since most of us loves trading but hate coding. but really nothing groundbreaking.

good point. I read the book awhile ago and thought about the same thing. MM have pref order execution at most exchanges. My guess - dunno for sure - is that if their bid is hit, they get order preference to either sell at the higher price or sell immediately at the same price. When the...

This is the part that I don't understand. You are trading a live account with order first on the queue. Are you saying orders behind you are getting filled before you? Whats the exchange? Is that a pro-rata queue? If it is a FIFO queue, your quantity should get filled first if you are...

Commodities market was created for consumers and producers of the actual commodities to hedge prices. not some speculators to make a gain from nothing. any reforms in the market won't change what is fundamentally wrong with the market - too many participants with no real interest in the end...

fairness aside.. at the end of the day, what do you folks produce?? Please don't tell me its some value/service. If world is to fall a part, you need farmers to grow food, but you won't need bankers to finance or locals to speculate.

Short for sure. 1) Iranian are not going to stir up too much trouble. 2) Warm weather 3) Economy is not turning around yet 4) No one is cutting production 5) All the investors into oil sands and fracking biz are coming online. 6) More efficient cars being sold 7) India/China economy...

??? WHy don't you just have a max position of 5 set by your risk manager?

I believe you found the confirmation, not the leading indicator on what the market did.

Is it wrong that the first thing came in my mind is what my man George on Seinfield said.... if everyone you do is wrong, then everything you do in the opposite must be right. Maybe you need to flip around your strategy! Seriously though, trading single product outrights are not easy...

Always good time to buy at beginning of the year as funds, retail clients, etc all are buying the stuff they dumped in dec for tax reasons. stuff = solid stocks. nothing speculative.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the explanation. Based on your experience, how quickly is a short order executed if it is on the "shortable list"? Have you seen significant slippage (like in the >1 minute) range for an order to be executed? thanks mm

Hi, I looked into IB's short selling descriptions. It seems there is quite a bit of footnote around borrowable stocks, etc. If I need to execute my shorts fast, can IB handle that or will it be a "high" touch order with some dude making sure the stock is borrowable, etc? I am curious...

Hi, I am more familiar with derivatives side of the business, so all you equities side folks please chime in. I am looking to pairs trading in dollar neutral setup. Any equities brokers that allow intra day shorts (stocks, funds, etc)? I am not carrying overnight. Many thanks mm

What an ugly chart!

Not sure, I recommend you speak with a tax consultant. But I believe as long as you make money under your identity, it is taxable by US. Uncle Sam will adjust base on what the other country taxed. I was only looking from a tax haven perspective. :D Setup a company in Singapore with a...

Not too familiar to IB screen, but can you submit "hold" orders? i.e. orders that are local to your machine, but held by you until you submit them into the exchange? This is assuming the 15 orders you have are standing limit orders on the exchange.

I asked this question awhile back regarding trading from captial gain tax free countries - such as singapore. not really any good answers here.

Define "Compress" please? are you refering to 1.5m ticks of data hitting the socket and your app reads off the socket, decode, and process the data? How many products/symbols is your feed? How big is one of your ticks? is it a single price change (i.e. bid price change = a tick...

Will it ensure regs regarding short selling?

If I understand the Ex correctly, I think you may be over engineering this. What you really are after is VAP - volume at price. So for that a simple array is sufficient _if_ your tick size is the same. If equities, you may want to use a dlink list: because you can have prices in sequence...