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I very often experience the same myself, i.e. the stock turning against me for about :20 minutes or so after taking a long position in a stock. IMO, the best way to take a long position is to wait till the size of the ask is small, then to take out the ask with a few hundred to spare. I...

I've seen this happen so many times to a particular trader on not-so-liquid stocks, in spite of the fact that the stocks always have recovered in the long run--which shows they were well-chosen stocks. He told me that it's his understanding now that there is a totally legal way for them to...

Agree or disagree: When a retail trader(s) takes a gigantic position in a particular stock, and the specialist therefore is short the stock also in a big way, almost regardless of how well the stock is selected, the stock will usually "coincidentally" turn against him, and for the benefit of...

Almost a week has gone by, any word back from MB Trading?

If that's the case that they don't guarantee the best fill, seemingly a possible reason is because of a bias as to where to route the trades.

John Dough, I would like to respond, but know we would go on for ever, and am definitely not trying to convert anyone. If there was one thing a Jew, based on our faith, could recommend to a non-Jew, is to look into the "Seven Laws of Noah". We have 613 laws, and hold that a non-Jew could...

Well, it's not my responsibility to fix that situation. The main difference is the Jesus issue, which they view changed afterwards, and we view that God would have to take us all back to Mount Sinai again to uproot the original Mount Sinai experience. Leaving out the Messiah issue* and things...

Interesting that you rely upon the Jewish people to interpret the Torah into english, but don't rely upon the Jewish people to explain what the Torah means. From Mount Sinai till today, that is our faith; you ask any observant Jew who learns a bit of Torah around the world and he will give you...

Why didn't you also quote the very next sentence in Genesis (1:27) "And God created man in His image He created him..."? If you were looking to become educated why didn't you ask it as a question of how to resolve the apparent contradiction between the two verses, one after the other? (The...

The $1 instead of $10 ticket charge is a clear advantage by IB over some of the other heavy ticket charge brokers, only you've got cancellation charges. Currently, we have an arrangment with no ticket charge and no minimums (not even $1) with a broker with a special negotiated rate. They...

You don't think they know what to do about risk, with deltas and gammas? If so, they don't belong in the business. Even without deltas and gammas, there is a simple arbitrage profit if two clients placed orders, one at $.30 to buy at bid, and the other at $.35 to sell at ask, to sell one...

Of course nobody is trading "against me". Look from this hypothetical example: if a broker has 5,000 clients per day who place option orders to buy at bid and/or sell at ask, and these clients are charged $10 ticket charges per trade, they would make $50k per day just by selling one option to...

Nothing to do with where they are routing the orders, rather: if bid is $.30 and ask is $.40, and one is trying to buy at bid 50 options at $.30, having one contract being sold to you, costing a $10 minimum ticket price, and then the same happening several times over the course of days/weeks.

I said it as a wild speculation, but something does seem fishy to me.

What I mean is that retail traders get priority in line before MM's, and they don't like that, so as a wild speculation, they take the other side of the trade, coordinating this small trading activity to the detriment of the retail traders who are first in line. BTW, with another broker...

As an alternative, maybe it's not the broker, but MM's or specialists selling options who can identify you as a retail client of whatever brokerage, and want you to "give up" your place in line. I would love if someone who really knows can verify any of this, because it could be it's all...

Actually, each day is viewed as a new trade. Also, if the option prices fluctuate a bit, he will modify his orders intraday as well.

We may have identified at least two brokers (who charge you one time fees of maybe $8-15), that when you place an order to buy equity options at bid, you get one contract fills quite often, and end up paying a lot on commissions; while with a third broker, we have not seen this happen at all...

If God did anymore, there would be no free will; we would all be like angels or animals, and there would be no reward and punishment. God does not have to give reckoning to you, you have to give reckoning to God. 1. I could have handled more in this thread and clarified points more, but in...

1. Of the actual happenings of the 10 plagues and the splitting of the Red Sea, I mentioned non-Biblical evidence. If you are asking for evidence that Egypt was not controlling the Sinai at the time perhaps Josephus could help you, I don't know. 2. The bible speaks monotheism. God has many...