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It's a little more complicated than that (one of the "not-so-obvious" schemes). The idea behind it is that some moron decided to make it legal to have a trade undone by the exchange if one of the parties sends a fax in the right format to the right number within 20 minutes of the trade stating...

And exactly how do you profit from such a "straddle"?

I apologize if the irony in my first post in this thread was not expressed clearly enough. It's hard for me to do with typed words only...

Exactly my point.

It has been my experience that this is true in the overwhelming majority of all cases. But I have had counterexamples even in rather illiquid options. This last Wednesday I got filled on the bid on an LPX Nov2002 12.5 Call. The bid had been .35 and the ask around .50 for a few days and I...

Things make sense perfectly if you just keep in mind that the securities markets are setup to do one thing: Nickle and dime individuals to death feeding corrupt institutions. You can't even call the securities mafia "criminals", because they are powerful enough to make their laws to fit them...

stkcowboy: Do I understand you correctly in that your broker allows you to have a long and a short position in the same stock at the same time in the same account? Anyway, I can't argue with your strategy, as long as the stock moves, you win! If it goes up a dime you make money on the long...

Today I had a trade busted, and now I am wondering how exactly that (stupid and unnecessary) process works and if or how a retail trader can profit from it. My case was WDFC, which is not very liquid. When there was very sudden and heavy buying interest around 3:40 pm, my limit order to sell...

I believe in the market. I believe in me. I use-a options to a-hedze the rixsx in my porfowlio. Because it's all about belence.

magi1975, YOU WILL GET KILLED! just kidding... I personally prefer the tick chart, but I plot a 4 minute, a 9 minute and an 18 minute EMA onto it. However, the most important indicator I use for ES and NQ are the underlying cash indices as well as the relation between the two indices...

rrisch, do you speak German? You seem to think like someone who would. Concerning your original question, I have wondered myself for several months and have not found out yet either. Before I read your post, I was just assuming that the number of days for an EMA was defined through a fixed...

I have had only good experiences with TMBR so far, always instantaneous. HOWEVER, with supersoes a situation where my order seems to be "looked at" happens quite frequently. I realize I have said this before, and I realize there are people on this board who love to instruct me regarding SOES...

I would tend to agree with all this, however, you do not really need Level II to gather all the information you are talking about. Isn't it rather irrelevant if it's GSCO, NITE or some other particular MM? Other than the particular MM's name, all the information you are referring to is really...

I have noticed that a couple of traders on here focus on just one Nasdaq stock, which often times is trading at a relatively high per share price (like BRCM, NVDA etc.). While I understand the reasons for choosing a stock with high per-share volatility/price when you pay per share...

If you post an inside bid or offer you can get an idea of an upper boundary for your quote delay (if you can identify your bid/offer on your datafeed).

I think I heard that on CNBC a few weeks ago. The host should have just responded "Interesting.... WROOOONG! ...but interesting". The QQQs are exempt from the uptick rule, just like DIA and SPY. NASDAQ's uptick rule (for stocks) is different from NYSE's.

I have been having the same problems for a couple of days now. There is no problem with my ISP either, but I have been getting lots of bulletins from IB stating that some customers might be having problems.

The following is from a JAVA program that is working for me: tempContract.symbol = "ES"; tempContract.secType = "FUT"; tempContract.expiry = "200206"; tempContract.strike = 0D; tempContract.right = ""...

Thank you, but AFAIK you only sacrifice security in my setup, not stability.

Thank you for explaining that to me. I have always wonderes why such a lot of people trade the QQQs. You have made some good points.