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    SEC approves new Cboe in-kind transfer rule for options-based ETFs

    https://www.etfexpress.com/2019/11/04/280053/sec-approves-new-cboe-kind-transfer-rule-options-based-etfs
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    Looking Beyond Rule 606: Rule 605

    November 01, 2019 Looking Beyond Rule 606: Rule 605 Frank Grampone BestXStats (BXS) Follow | Profile | More Share The SEC recently amended Rule 606 to ensure it continues to provide transparency amid today’s increasingly complex marketplace. But Rule 605, which remains untouched...
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    From Trade Alert - SPX trade

    SPX Heavy premium buying in SP500 Index options following 3-month lows for VIX. Over 1.5M contracts traded in SPX Thursday with Dec 3300 calls leading the flow after a buyer paid 55 to 60c for 55K contracts just before noon ET with futures near 3027, opening a large position struck nearly 8.5%...
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    US Taxes on Long-Dated Contracts Held > 1 Yr

    Thanks for the heads up
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    NYSE Speed bump going away

    11/04/2019, 12:21 NYSE American - Functionality Changes Subject to effectiveness of a rule filing with the SEC, NYSE American will make the following functional changes on November 18, 2019. Elimination of Delay Mechanism NYSE American will eliminate its 350-microsecond delay mechanism that...
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    US Taxes on Long-Dated Contracts Held > 1 Yr

    Unless it's some kind of funny asset. This was 2018.
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    What's the difference between HFT front-running and Insider-trading?

    "There will always be someone faster than others, just like there will always be someone who's smarter than others. And there are people who can be both." Sure many will be retail-like RAES and SOES bandits - now it's a game and the playing field will become more level.
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    Portfolio Margin Account vs Standard Margin Account for Greater Leverage

    Pros and cons - greater leverage. The best thing you can do is get approved if you qualify and gradually - GRADUALLY - leverage up. Don't to max leverage right out of the box.
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    What's the difference between HFT front-running and Insider-trading?

    The debate is somewhat silly and some of the arguments are just repeating hearsay. Eliminate the private feed which beats the SIP and HFT is gone.
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    What's the difference between HFT front-running and Insider-trading?

    Speed off of a private feed so you can sweep before the SIP reports and the other is material non public.
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    Payment for order flow

    Goggle preferenced orders and you see where they offered. You can only hit them off a broker smart router.
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    APEX Clearing just sent me a letter.....

    oX and Etrade were self-clearing, but not out the box - but there was no APEX relationship back then in the US. Penson the predecessor cleared oX Canada at one point. oX has been Schwab for a while so that leaves me to believe TradeKing, not certain where their successor clears
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    Payment for order flow

    @qlai Yes to both.
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    Freetrade closes on $15 million funding in 2019

    Commission-free stockbroking app Freetrade has closed a $15m fundraising round, comprising a $7.5m Series A investment from Draper Esprit and an equity crowdfunding rise of $7.5 million completed earlier this year. Targeting the millennial market, Freetrade claims to have picked up 50,000...
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    OCC October Cleared Volume Down 20.5 Percent

    the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that total cleared contract volume in October reached 451,300,066 contracts, a 20.5 percent decrease compared to last October. OCC’s year-to-date average daily cleared contract volume is 19,728,721 down 4.7 percent...
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    Order Fill

    How many exchanges is the name listed on? Is the order being held on your broker's servers? They owe you a fill unless there is a material omission of the facts. Unless the order was held upstairs it should have shipped under linkage if it was multiply listed and went to any exchange.
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    Who is trading warrants?

    We occasionally trade them as part of the convertible arb. book. They are different from options as they can rarely be borrowed to short and they are frequently overpriced. Mostly in Asian names. Very popular as a debt sweetener and where bank prop. desk dominate the market. Some in the EU...
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    More Bridgewater Associates: Modeling Ray Dalio’s Modeling

    http://alphacution.com/bridgewater-associates-modeling-ray-dalios-modeling-2/?utm_source=LinkedIn+Connections_20180316&utm_campaign=655ff99bd6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_20191031+-+Core&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_98541b806d-655ff99bd6-204597581
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    Payment for order flow

    What does preferenced liquidity do to the argument against PFOF. No dark pools in options, but dark liquidity as preferenced and upstairs trading is huge and in some products rivals the listed trading. You want to go where the liquidity is and price is only a portion of the equation. If I get...
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    Additional OPRA codes slotted to take effect on Monday

    I suspect this will only impact a few of us so I won't post the pages of notifications. You can the library of OPRA notices at www.opraplan.com
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