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Can anyone spell out in simple instructions how to place a basket order from Excel? What we did so far was placed the underlying symbol in the left column, the desired exchange, then the description (e.g. QQQQ JAN08 49.0 CALL OPTION). We saved it as a CSV file. We went to the page on TWS for...

I would just like to express my satisfaction with Thinkorswim's customer service. They take responsibility in situations that the responsibility could have gone either way (e.g. in trigger orders), and I have seen already 2-3 times how they have done that without hesitation. IMO, this allows...

Do you post all of your S&P trades on ET? It would be nice to see the track record of you and Reardon Metal on trades when you are in concurrence, e.g. if done over 6 months or a year.

Do you offer a trading system, e.g. on Collective2?

Thank you for adding this.

Perhaps you have now revealed the biggest trading secret for the incompetent, i.e. making every buy a sell, and every sell a buy, assuming they would otherwise make the wrong trading decisions 70% of the time. :D Actually, they also lose money for other reasons.

Instead of pressing sell, to close out a position of 2400 shares $1 above market, I accidentally pressed buy. It was after market, and had the order gone through I would have thrown away about $1k I believe. Instead, there was a popup that asked me if I really want to submit that order. I have...

Great upside, and underwent a 7% correction today.

Why haven't I heard this one before, as it seems quite obvious: If you believe a particular stock is a special prospect for long, but the overall market has much downside risk, not to stay away from the market, rather buy the stock long and short and index or ETF like QQQQ?

Got ya. Well that sometimes speaks to me.

IMO, retail traders have more of an impact because: 1) Your orders get matched. OR: 2) They try to make the trade play against you. Also, after a stock has taken a big intraday dip, sometimes it's just a question "who will start" and then the stock begins a recovery.

Why do you think they are worse than NYSE?

I speak English, not Greek; maybe you can clarify yourself.

Here's my thoughts: Sometimes it seems things go according to the normal supply & demand rules, i.e. as you buy up stock, the stock goes up in price. Other times, as you buy up stock, the stock price caves in on you, which seemingly is designed to squeeze out the retail day trader or newbie...

It seems each stock has its own nuance. Some of them turn on you the moment you buy more than just a few shares, some of them don't.

Tef8, Could it be that is what happened in your case?

Below is the reply of IB. If I understand correctly, it means one is not able to see natural bids AT ALL? Here it is... Hello, hope all is well. Regarding your inquiry below. There is a hide penny option price, but that will not show the natural bid and offer. That is only to hid...

Are you talking also that the order went through? With IB, though, you'll likely never get an option fill that's worse than the NBBO, so any mistake has limited impact. Yet spread between bid and ask can still be horrendous.

Misread my post.

If you really know what Bitstream is saying, and you get the evidence together maybe then you should take this further. Perhaps by starting a new thread with the appropriate title will attract people who can give additional input.