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Most of those are arranged/negotiated/MOC trades. Someone doesn't usually walk up and say "gimme a million". FWIW, I went back about 5 weeks, and there are just two more trades that are bigger than the smallest one I noted above: CHK 18.4M@31.70 BRL 5.3M@66.80 Total of 106 9-figure...

I've been watching silver and made a few trades, and found YI, and ZI to a lesser extent, to be liquid enough to get about 10-50K oz done at the inside opposite the resistance, as long as you don't mind paying a spread of about 1-2 cents. Trying to scalp/trade inside that spread is a real pain -...

That's nothing. Just looking at block prints for today, there are plenty of 9-figure prints. The biggest few: XOM 6.8M@61.80 MSFT 14.0M@27.50 GE 11.0M@34.55 XOM 5.8M@61.05 MSFT 12.9M@27.38 C 6.3M@47.52

One might want to read the rules carefully. From memory: 25 trades per week limit. All orders are MOC. Mid/large-cap stocks only. Basically, a short-term investing contest. No outsized gains from badly marked-up/pumped-up penny stocks, call options, etc. I'd be surprised if the winner were...

Like someone else said, generally no effect*. An example: If someone is short calls, they may have sold them against a long stock position. Someone may have bought calls as insurance against a short stock position. At expiration, the stock gets moved from the first party to the second...

Definitely get connections from two different providers and make sure they are as physically different as possible (i.e. don't get connections from people that are co-located at the same CO if you can help it). Personally, I trade from my home, and have Charter cable and Verizon DSL...

Quote from mahram: Tdwaterhouse charges 50$ to wire, but then another 150 for taking out money. Sounds like an IRA closeout fee (the $150)? I got the same screwing from Penson (via myTrack) some years ago. $50 seems high for a wire. Their current fee schedule says wires are $15 and "Full...

Most of the time, I see the spec just gap and freeze when he's working on a big print, and the ECNs provide plenty of liquidity inside the gap. What's the real improvement here?

During the pre-opening indication phase on ECBOT (at least), when the bid and offer are crossed, both disappear from TWS. This is undesirable.

Put an option in the Executions window to remove the "summary" row that gets inserted when you get more than one fill on an order. I just want to see the individual fills (the way it used to work a couple years ago). Make the Executions window save it's column width. I have to keep adjusting it.

Sometime last year, TWS stopped playing execution sounds for fills of orders in a basket. While I can understand that people who use marketable baskets might not want to hear a bunch of fill sounds, there are other uses for baskets. Please make this "feature" optional.

Why? Just don't use the leverage. That is, if you have $10K, you buy/sell one mini contract (1000 oz) and put the $9500 that isn't needed for the performance bond in money market. Unless, of course, you want to invest less than $10K, in which case you're SOL. IMO, the spread and other costs...

Can I suggest, if you have it available, doing a scan for unusual volume stocks, and stocks with the largest percentage move, to see if those are on the list on that day, and the day after?

Can't really go directly to the pit for compensation, and more than you can go directly to an ECN. That's the job of a broker. This is not directly related to this incident, but to something that was said a couple of times: I disagree with the often-espoused notion that a lost opportunity...

Reality is that, for their own reasons, IB is stingy with their quotes. That's not likely to change much, though they've loosened up a lot. In another thread, someone mentioned RealTick accommodating 3499 tickers, L2 windows, etc. I'm definitely going to be looking there again (haven't used...

Quote from fhl: Was under the impression that 10,000 shares was the max order size at IB. Could be wrong. No apparent size limit imposed by IB, though there appear to be limits on some of the exchanges/ECNs. Testing with orders to buy ATAR at 0.01, the limits are: SMART 500K (routed to...

No issue with IB (or any other functional DAT broker) in this regard. If it's marketable, and there's enough size on the other side of the market, you generally get a near-instant fill. Unless that size is on the NYSE or AMEX only, of course, in which case it's subject to the manual delays of...

Retail has, indeed, dropped substantially to match prop - talking about prop firms' retail operations (like Assent, Genesis, etc.) and per-share rates now from all-retail places like MBT and IB, not TDW/AMTD, ET, etc.

Often, someone (usually Goldman or CSFB) upgrades/downgrades some stock shortly after the end of regular trading in New York. Sometimes, DJ or Briefing.com gets these, but most of the time, they are not reported by either until the next morning. An example from last night (2006-03-13) was PD...

- Provide a direct interface to T&S from the context (right-click) menu of a market data line that lets you enter a specific minute in time (including date) to look at, defaulting to the current minute. It's significantly more difficult to do this through the charts currently. - Make trades...