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    Opening Orders - 2009

    No fills. Larger on longs, cancelled 75%.
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    Pair Trading with Options

    You may want to look what Financial Spread Betting is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_betting And BTW, "It is illegal for a US citizen to use CFD or Spread Betting because they are regarded as gambling under US law". I call this protectionism, or if you will constraints but a sure...
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    Profit split Prop Shop

    Use the search function.
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    Pair Trade Finder

    Maybe you can find someone in the Pairs Trading Strategy Journal.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    2 new ones: Short CNQ:TLM Short MET:TMK
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    Pair Trading with Options

    Spread betting and spread trading are 2 different animals.
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    How do I close trades when there is no bid / ask

    Post a limit at a price you want to get. If you are DOTM chances are you will lose all the premium.
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    Opening Orders - 2009

    4 fills, 1 long, 3 shorts, 4 wins, +0.08 average.
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    Pair Trading with Options

    If you are living in a free country (I mean anywhere except in the US), you may be able to use "CFDs" of "Spread bets". They offer leverage of about 10-20 in exchange of a penny on the spread and maybe some financing costs. CMC Markets comes to mind. One guy in the Pairs Trading Journal use it I...
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    Pair Trading with Options

    I've tried in a paper trading acount and it's hard to beat the transaction fees (comish + spread + time decay). Thew best thing is that you limit the losses but you pay a price for the privilege. I did not totally discard the idea so if someone tells you that it can be done it's possible but...
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    Front Running, Flash Orders, or Blackbox/Algorithmic Manipulation?

    The OP is refering to the obscure flash orders where they see the orders for 30 mili sec b4 everyone.
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    Front Running, Flash Orders, or Blackbox/Algorithmic Manipulation?

    You did not read the whole post. The OP said that limits also dont get filled. It's as if slippage is increasing when we should have a more efficient market!
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    Opening Orders - 2009

    Waste Management Inc. ... said its ticker on the New York Stock Exchange will change from WMI to WM on Aug. 5 to better represent the company’s current logo.
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    What defines a market Crash?

    Totally subjective but for me it's a major index losing 20%... intraday. A very rare event.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    Playing with fire; BRE earnings next tuesday. Should be out b4 then. Short EQR:BRE
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    TickZoom details

    lol, why dont you start a business and pay the bills and then give all the products for free?
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    The problem is not PTF but the data source, if you look at Yahoo, the close is 46.11.
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    Opening Orders - 2009

    July monthly review; Played 18 days. 76 fills, 27 longs, 49 shorts, 55 winners, 22 losers, -0.007 average. 4 days in the red, 5 mostly flat. First losing month since june last year. 2 days of big losses put me in red. One was a software issue on my side, the other is between me and the...
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    Opening Orders - 2009

    No fills.
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