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Value investing is all about how you value a company. Financials are backwards looking. Hence your challenge is to extrapolate that forward. With technology, the extrapolation applies to financials and future trends.

What do you mean by that? (marked to market comments)

How is this different from separate legs? It seems like a lmt order on each side...

with the new LEAPS coming out later this month, how long does it take for them to trade with some degree of liquidity? I know this will vary between liquidity of stocks but at what point does the bid ask become palatable? Also why does spy have dec leaps but not any other securities? Will the...

Nice. Good to know. Not at that size yet but this is good info for the future.

i see... so is there any feed that will provide the next best b-a's after the one that is at the top of the list? I thought L2 did that but now I see that it is only for the best b-a's across the different exchanges. with spx having only one exchange, then that is the reason i only see one row...

Yes, that is what I am talking about. Didn't realize there was only 1 exchange. Also didn't know that L2 meant only the best from each exchange. Was hoping to see more depth behind the SPX options. My annoyance is putting a mid point offer, seeing the bid then jump to that. If I remove the...

i think i'm not wording it properly... my level 2 window for spx options often shows very little level 2 data. e.g. L2 data for FB options show many more orders than the L2 data for spx or ndx options. I don't want to see tons of data... just the top 10 orders in the queue. as per L2 data for...

why is that? i thought OPRA had all the #s for level 2... spx is super liquid so i thought finding the tools to trade spx would be readily available. i'd like to trade more spx and less spy but the data gap is annoying. uphill challenge for the retail trader...

love the humility. it's ppl like you, ajacobson (et al), that make the site worth returning to despite the trolls and testosterone filled 'pushers'. On a similar but different note... is there a special data feed on IB (or other provider) that provides level 2 data for spx and ndx options...

this is good education for me. been reading up on it as a result Thanks

Resting buy order? What is that? Doesnt the broker send it to the open market meaning it goes to all the exchanges? I don't care about the commission if I get the better fill price... To me that is tripping over pennies when there are dollars around. Or am I incorrect on that one?

You're probably right about the colloquial part. What bugs me is setting the offer price seeing it become the bid or ask, and then cancelling it only to see it returned to a previous price instantly. In other words, there is the mm bid price and what customer would use as their bid price... And...

markets need a push to tip them over. the push is typically some sort of catalyst. Right now the economy is strong so this is more likely a simple pull back. If impeachment occurs, tech gets heavily taxed, trade wars escalate in a crazy fashion, etc... then we've got our push. Trump seems to...

i use IB... the trade desk seemed to have something on his side... he said it was on their software side. I was doing a trade review/dispute with them

Hi, what is open book level 2 data access? i've also heard the term 'deep book', what is that? I was speaking to my broker's trade desk (for options), and in discussion of my fill, he was also able to tell me what the current MM's bid and ask were. I think this would be very helpful to try to...

HI, yeah, I was referring to writing options and rolling them forward, if needed. I've searched the boards for his articles... found some in the trading diary side... I'll PM you anyway. I have yet to roll an option. Either I like the trade, or I don't. At least, that's my current perspective...

Still not entirely clear by what you mean. Assuming a person could get filled at the mid for each leg, would it be better to fill one leg at a time, or would the system try to fill them simultaneously at the mid? Or is the system filling them at the mkt (bid for for short, ask for long)? Spreads...

Robert, have you ever compared if IB order fills are as advertised? I've had lmt orders for stocks filled that were filled at the same price but marginally faster by my other broker... Happened a few times. They were odd lots but it made me wonder.... Could you also comment on how spreads are...

Also losing 15% 22 ‰of the time .. Is not that great. Especially since I bet your losses are more than 15,% per trade. Real life is probably closer to 20... Mm also like to gun for stops, so that's an issue too