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    The Incumbents Strike Back: MiFID II in May

    June 12, 2019 The Incumbents Strike Back: MiFID II in May Tim Cave TABB Group Follow | Profile | More Share Lit venues in Europe’s equity market hit back during May. Collectively, primary markets and traditional closing auctions accounted for 67.3% of all on-exchange equities volume...
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    My demise

    Many people who are successful today had unsuccessful starts - even financial failures. There are also people who were unsuccessful and left without turning back. If you don't have the "fire" then good luck in whatever you end up doing.
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    Russell reconstitution

    If it impacts anyone.
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    SPX Iron Flies

    Premium Harvesting** Provides market neutral credit spread ideas based on certain broad-based indices, popular ETFs, and high volume stocks using strike prices that are 1 standard deviation or more from the current underlying price within the expiration timeframe (with a minimum of $0.25...
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    Remind me why the PDT Rule exists.

    All requirements are intended to protect the firm from an "unsecured" debit - not intended to solely protect the customer. Intended to protect the firm against an unsecured.
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    Can you trade VXAPL or VXAZN?

    You can't trade the vol. metrics - yet - on singles names - in the listed market. If you think vol. is going to change there are dozens of ways to benefit from it, but it is very dependent on how skewed the vol. is in the option chain. The simple answer is a delta neutral vol. trade. Is your...
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    The BYND fee rate

    TRADER UPDATE 06/11/2019, 13:03 NYSE OPTIONS: *UPDATE* BID/ASK DIFFERENTIALS EFFECTIVE MARCH 18, 2019 - JUNE 21, 2019 NYSE American Options and NYSE Arca Options have revised the quote spread relief for Beyond Meat Inc. (BYND) to $10.00 wide. For the full list of issues which have been...
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    Td ameritrade refuses to upgrade option Tier 2 – Standard Margin!

    Generally, no firm publishes their suitability requirements, because they fear they get gamed. They do have to put them in writing for the FINRA exam and keep them internal.
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    Are there any brokers offering $1m+ financing for margin rates lower than IB?

    Almost anything is negotiable if you are real size but think about their profitability. There needs to be something left profitable or there is no point in hosting your account. Trade for free and the broker probably want a few million on file for stock loan margin spread or rebates payment...
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    Billions in a Shot Glass

    :D I think we'd all drink to that!
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    0 bid with volume

    Equity options stop trading at 4:02 give or take - some MMs shut their machines down - some go to zero bid - either way, the venues leave the quote engines up, but you can't trade. I'll venture this was post the close.
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    0 bid with volume

    After hours?
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    The BYND fee rate

    Jeff Greenblatt - do a little searching.
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    Is IB the cheapest broker for larger investors trading frequently?

    Is the issue accepting payment - rebates - ATS fees - maker/taker fees - reciprocal trading agreements or routing to HFTs. Or is it both. IB in their 606 specifically states they don't sell to brokers and uses a "Smart Router". That's just a synonym for self clearing. Does not really address...
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    What's more likely to be dead - CPU or motherboard?

    Memory sticks are the most common failure at our shop.
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    Raytheon, United Technologies in Talks to Merge

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-utc-m-a-raytheon/raytheon-and-united-technologies-in-talks-to-merge-wsj-idUSKCN1T90T0
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    Stock exchange for movies

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1535527/000104746919003508/a2238988zs-1a.htm Last week Crowdstrike IPO
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    Stock exchange for movies

    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000162828019004543/beyondmeats-1a5.htm
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    Stock exchange for movies

    Every good IPO has had some retail participation as has every poor one. The challenge is under most IPOs(not all) the selling group takes them down on a principal basis and very few e-commerce discount brokers will commit capaital. BRK.B was heavily allocated to discount as it was designed for...
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    Stock exchange for movies

    https://www.thewrap.com/members/2019/06/05/ryan-kavanaugh-proxima-media-stock-exchange-for-movies/
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