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Awesome. Looking forward to it.

They have a field for "imbalance" you can call up on TWS, but I've never seen it changing.

Optimizing your compensation and government benefits is completely rational from an individual's perspective. It's the system that is broken.

Well and the other issue that if you hedged away the market and interest rate risk there'd be very little return left.

The SSD is the bomb. Hard to go back to a traditional HD after having one.

Another pro gambler here. I would also like to transition into the markets. The main thing is finding a viable edge. It's easier to find and to define an edge in gambling since it's a closed system, but much more difficult in the markets since they are always changing. The nice thing about...

Do you have an opinion about the instruments you're going to invest in, or are you just looking to play the yield curve, ie. borrow short, invest long duration.

You'll be subject to margin/liquidation issues if it gets volatile again. I wouldn't lever up too much. The much mentioned 6:1 PM is for a very diversified portfolio. You won't get it if you just have a few positions, and I don't think you get any relief for long-short equity unless they're...

+1 to the lawyer. Yes, it's expensive just like any other professional, but the potential downside if you make a mistake doing it yourself is catastrophic. Think of it as insurance.

I can remember in previous recessions it was a better deal to chop the older ships into scrap metal than to operate them.

I'd like to see a discussion of all the new order types. It's quite vexing with so many exchanges and the various broker implementations of them.

The visible display size theoretically gets priority over hidden, but with the explosion of so many new order types at the request of HFT, maybe that's not true anymore?

A lot of this comes down to specifics. What's your net worth? What % return can you make off of your risk capital? And more importantly, if you blow out, can you go back into your old career without any repercussions? If you can always go back to being a compliance officer after making a go...

This forum is a toilet.

Dealers do make mistakes, but they get fired for it.

Umm, have you ever been in a Las Vegas casino for a minute or two? The dealers follow the rules of the game without exception.

The OP is using forex terms for futures margin. I assume he's talking about 100:1 on the notional to a $500-1000 intraday margin.

Umm because the idea is to capture the excess return (alpha) from the single stock, not to take a bunch of unnecessary risk on the market return overnight.

They can offer that because there is no intraday margin requirement by the exchange, since it is figured at night for whatever positions the member firm is holding. I'd bet they're going to watch your account like a hawk if they give you that big of a line.

Where can you see the opening indications? I don't think IB has them, or they went away.