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******************** If you go with a firm which uses the Philly Stock Exchange as SRO, you are considered grandfathered as of to date. That may change in the future since Nasdaq now owns the exchange. No change as of yet so I am told. If you took the exam anytime in your history, that's...

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Hello all. Which Trading Arcades(ET 'prop firms') offer the TraderWorkStation platform through an IB corp. account? IB has invested in multiple API solutions ideal for algorithmic trading. Unless these 'props' are too shady to qualify for Port. Margin with IB's institutional desk, I...

MGJ: No, I am referring to equities(stocks). Futures and Forex are taxed differently except for SSFs.

Anyone actively trading managed accounts?

I really need to start a debate on the BassAckwards tax schemes in the U.S. Axe-grinding accountants who also sell entity formation kits need not reply. If an active pro trader is batching positions to a client/friend omnibus-acct tied to his/her master, I'm interested to hear how those...

Longhorns, Do you currently subscribe to a real time news service? Thanks, BT.

The purpose of this post is to initiate a poll amongst traders as to his/her preferred News service for stocks. In other words, "what is your favorite News service, why, and what is your cost?" Any other characteristics could be of value. For example, "Trade the News" is a service that allows...

I'm seeing partial fills under 200 shares too often. Every partial fill under 200 shares adds a new ticket charge to IB. If anyone is experiencing this as well, please speak up. BT.

For those of us who use time and sales data in our criteria for determining positions, etc.; which data feed is the preferred choice to pro traders? I'm interested to know which third party data is acceptable to prop traders. Full time traders need only reply.....Thanks, BT. P.S. - an...

The $prem is fundamentally flawed as a pure indicator because it doesn't reveal true cash spread against true derivative spread. It's simply a spread against the last trade between the two. Look closely and you'll see identical prints which illustrate completely different causes. To the...