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Responded to one inquiry so far. I thought it would be easy but running into roadblocks. Surprised it isn't more common. I see it more in Crypto and US OTC stocks. I want to use primarily on Canadian tickers but will take what i can get.

Lots of run around with questions and no's. Beyond the auto retweet automation, most aren't familiar with cap markets.

there was like 2 months where things dipped. But otherwise we've been up for awhile. i got 5 houses in Ontario and each went up like gangbusters after Bank of Canada cut rates by 150 basis points. It's a boom time for sure real estate-wise.

It's a Booming time. Lots of equity and stock options offered in the start-up space as well.

What markets are you trading? then i can answer your question regarding execution quality. If it's US markets then IB beats the hell out of all the other discount brokerages in Canada.

I'm not a programmer. But looking to hire someone that can create a Twitter bot that covers a group of companies I follow. - Moving Average Alerts for a group of companies, - SEC filing Alerts, - Earnings, - Auto Retweet of Public Company Twitter Handles - price action +-5% alerts)? -...

Crypto.com gives me 3% cashback in CRO. Upgrading in a month or 2 to get the 5% cashback. and they reimburse 100% of my Netflix and spotify.

I feel like we're speaking a different language.

Your making it more complicated than it should be. It's price improvement over the best available quoted bid or ask price in the Markets. BID $9.90 ASK $10.00 if Execution occurred at $9.95 for a buy order then price improvement would be $0.05 per share.

Best approach is take say 1,000 of your Charles Schwab executions and compare against NBBO at the time. It should give you an avg price improvement figure. IBKR gives me most price improvement here in Canada compared to Wealthsimple, TD, Questrade. Never used Schwab, TD, or Etrade.

This should only be measured in a quant fashion not by some anecdotal opinions. What is Schwabs price improvement over NBBO vs Etrades?

I usually stick to foreign ordinary Microcaps on OTC if i do trade them so spread isn't as bad since there's always Arb between the OTC symbol and the home exchange to keep the spreads tight.

Etrade has even more restrictions. You cant buy any caveat emptor OTC securities. Schwab and TD have a bunch of restrictions.

yeah many people focus on user interface instead of pricing & functionality for which platform they should use

Certificate fraud. Again USA is kinda screwed structure wise for penny stocks.

Yep, Still happens sometimes. Sometimes there is a "Chill on Deposits" or a "Chill on Withdrawals". So 1 side of the trade could be an electronic trade in the order book and the other side of the trade needed to be settled physically or both sides physically. What a clusterFuck of a nightmare.

Those Microcaps are just the issuers. That's completely separate. Those tickers likely have good volume and don't have restriction or capital charges. We're talking about the brokerage and the clearing house.

This is true is some respects but the capital required to be posted is sooooo excessive that it's killing the micro-cap markets in the US. I'm not really complaining since more listings are going to Canada's CSE & TSXV which benefits my bottom line.

Yep, you are right. . . Honestly as a DIY guy, i would say focus on the Full-Service Brokerages for things like Cert deposit and high volume trading. You will get greater flexibility. 1. Volatility Component: NSCC calculates and imposes a "volatility" charge purportedly "designed to measure...

Just Imagine a client trading 1M worth of shares and the brokerage having to post 25M,50M,100M in collateral. Most brokerages will believe it's not an efficient use of capital and just restrict trading.