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"The gains offset Ruffer's losses elsewhere, limiting the decline in its flagship fund to 0.8% last quarter." lol. Sometimes the -EV gamblers win a few hands.

TWS

Every time NBBO changes there's a new line in the Time & Sales page, even if no actual trade occurred. When the servers are busy intraday it takes forever to scroll through that crap to find the actual trades.

All the charts on tws are also crap, so I use YCharts / Yahoo Finance / BigCharts / BarChart For visualizing option spreads just do it in your head.

Is there a way to filter it to only show sales so I don't have to scroll through 20 pages of nonsense bids to find the sales?

probably have to switch from TWS to the API

(and pegged-to-primary won't work because I want a positive offset with rollback on stuff that isn't traded on ISLAND)

I trade with dozens of liquidity-adding limit orders pending simultaneously and it gets tedious to update all of them manually. 1. I want a layout field that turns GREEN when my bid is the best bid and RED otherwise. 2. I want a button that will change the price of my unexecuted bid to be a...

what moron is buying these oxy bonds 3% over the NBBO?

Here's a specific example of IB's absurd margin requirements on options. I wanna buy $1k of deep OTM strangles and the margin requirement is over 16x that.

How about some OTM calls on Silver in December.

I trade a bit of everything. Long/short equity, options, bonds, commodities, ssfs. I like that IB has all this in one place. But there are a couple problems with IB that really rustle my jimmies: 1. Ridiculously high margin requirements. If you want to short some 6month corporate bond...

I entered a more aggressive ask than the NBBO, but it didn't update the NBBO. It didn't even show up in the level 2 order book. edit: nevermind, it's just adding fees to all the ask prices.

There's a bid at $6 with a min fill size of 1k and the last price jumped to way below it without hitting it. How is that possible, other than someone trying to paint the tape by trading with himself on one exchange way below the NBBO? Same thing happened yesterday too. I had a SMART routed...

You can enter any min trade size you want on IB's order entry form, and I guess you can also enter any display size you want. So they must have entered a smaller display size than the min trade size. Why would anyone ever want a min trade size as large as 135k? Relatedly, I had a 25k buy...

What's going on here?

I'd expect anyone who's really been successful over 21 years of investing to be too rich to waste his time with sub-$1000 trades and selling training seminars.

Negative real yields on 30 year bonds are unsustainable. But that bubble can't deflate without making a lot of banks insolvent. The fed will be the Greater Fool of Last Resort for all these banks who bought return-free risk assets.

But in the actual transaction history it looks like they charged considerably more than 0.025%. It's like 0.05%-0.2%

I was off by one decimal place in the OP. It's actually 0.025% which is not too bad.