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    Dark storm cloud brewing on payout rules

    Any info available online yet?
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    Do you have a cite for those figures?
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Thanks for the update. How do we download v3.0? I only see a link to 2.99a...
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    First In Queue

    Not necessarily. As a consequence of Reg NMS prohibiting locked markets, it's possible that an order that should clear the offer and become the new best bid might be delayed. The nationally disseminated SIP feeds that broadcast the NBBO aren't fast enough to actually be the "real" market...
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    Current ECN rebate rates- Compiling the full list as a useful reference for everyone:

    Traders Magazine publishes a table in its print edition that is updated every month. www.tradersmagazine.com
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    Today i got screwed on a bad tick on nyse and broker said tough crap

    1. If you routed to EDGA, NYSE wasn't involved. 2. What specific EDGA order did you send? 3. Did you get numerous partial fills? Only the top of the order book is protected. EDGA fills against its own book, then routes out to other ECNs at the NBBO. If there is not enough size to...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Look at the various spreads amongst the VIX futures. VXX constantly rolls from front month to second month - and must be getting killed on the roll, similar to USO used to (or still does...) VXZ rolls from 4th month to 7th month, maintaining average maturity exposure of 5th month. At this...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Any thoughts on shorting VXX / VXZ?
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    MOO order NYSE or NASDAQ

    No. From 9:28 until the open you can only enter offsetting imbalance-only orders.
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    BATS 1/100 of a penny execution

    Not if he sent routed to Dark Scan. That routes: 1. Dark pools 2. BATS book 3. More dark pools/outside liquidity 4. Other displayed markets http://batstrading.com/resources/features/bats_exchange_dark_liq.pdf
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    They were probably doing their spoofing manually. No HFT involved. Based on the info I've seen, they were just layering the book with large orders. People have spoofed forever, and it still happens all day, every day. This case really doesn't have anything to do with HFT.
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    Bright Trading's new payout model

    In my experience sub-penny trades are one of three things: 1. Broker internalization 2. Dark pool trades 3. Specific types of order sent to certain ECNs/exchanges that sometimes execute at partial penny increments. Normal prop firms can't access broker internalization pools. Granted...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Any thoughts on MSFT / QQQQ? It's been range bound and bounced off ~0.56 since 2006. Check out a weekly chart.
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    After Hours Trading Question - Pic Attached

    Could be an arranged block trade based on something like the daily VWAP, could be a late reporting dark pool print, could be a broker-to-broker transfer... there are many different possibilities. That print was definitely not specialists. That was the CBOE. There is no "specialist" there...
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    Nasdaq to Cancel Trades

    Ahh yeah...like a 60% envelope. It didn't occur to me that anything was actually going up at that point in time...
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    Nasdaq to Cancel Trades

    Greater than or less than 60%? That doesn't make sense. I assume they mean greater than or equal to...
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    First, thanks for sharing in this thread. About BMY / WX... WX has a pending merger that values it at ~ $21.25. That is the reason for the big move in the pair. I can't see the short side of this going down much. Are you expecting the deal to fall through?
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    Is UUP the new UNG??

    UUP is back to trading exactly where it should be. That was free money.
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    GLD or TBT?

    TBT's price is path dependent. The price of TBT provides no information about the price of treasuries. You could be totally right on shorting treasuries and make $0 or lose money by holding TBT.
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