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Did you specifically route your order to CBOE? Because when I pull up GSF calls I see SMART routing is the primary selection, which would have the possibility of being routed to AMEX, BOX, ISE, PHLX, PSE, and of course, CBOE. I'd be more interested in knowing how quickly my order was reflected...

Maybe this will help you out. I've been trading for approximately 40 years. I've had accounts had a very large numbers of brokers. In fact, I started as a broker with one of the major investment firms at the time. I believe that IB is the best broker I have dealt with. So I'm more than...

Chris: The point seems to elude you. The title of this thread is "Did I Get Screwed By IB Today"? The original poster then goes on to talk about his stop orders, etc etc. Come to find out, he did not know how stop orders on IB worked, simply because he had not read the User Manual. Now...

I got a hunch you're going to be completely disappointed with Fox. As I understand it it will be the business channel for the "common man". LOL. Good luck with it. Let me know how it goes. OldTrader

You can do that in ButtonTrader....a 3rd party frontend. www.buttontrader.com OldTrader

I guess they didn't teach him this in Quant school. LOL. OldTrader

Evidently you failed to read the link in the original post. This was not "rumors". This was a quarterly regulatory filing. Here, let me help you out: "Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley, the world's second- biggest securities firm, said its quantitative strategy traders lost $390...

There's a place for everyone. Sounds like you've found yours. Good luck to you. OldTrader

Kind of an ironic statement in light of the size of loss these probability experts took in August, don't you think? OldTrader

Interesting. My guess is that SSB left IB for Tradestation, based on some of his complaints about IB. Guess the grasss wasn't greener. OldTrader

Hey Pabst: Gotta say I agree with you. I'm thoroughly unimpressed with Baron in this, and several other instances, where he seems to come down on the wrong side of things. In fact, I'm starting to believe you can count on Baron to be a "wrong way Corrigan." And as you said, we all make...

Oil Futures Market Is Better Predictor Than Analysts (Update1) By Bill Murray Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The crude futures markets in London and New York have been more accurate predictors of oil prices than market analysts during the past eight years, Deutsche Bank AG said. The average...

Lousy strategy. What you're doing is selling an option against your stock, thereby cutting off your potential, while leaving your downside open. You may make money on stock after stock, until the one stock comes along that takes it all back. Take a look at some of the public option writing...

Yeah, we either did everything by hand, or subscribed to the Daily Graphs chart books and filled in the days between the weekly issues. I can actually remember doing 5 minute charts by hand. LOL. Made it a little hard to use the restroom. OldTrader

Actually, I don't believe "any" bad tick could trigger a stop where the triggering method was the last price. As I understand it, it the price must either be within the bid/ask, or specified percentages outside the bid/ask. IB specifies .5%. So if your stop is 18, your stop could...

Evidently you have just gotten around to reading about stops at IB, AFTER you entered your stop order and were evidently "disappointed" in the fill that you got. You can select a variety of trigger methods, all of which have advantages and disadvantages. All you had to do was pick the one...

I got news for you....by your definition 75 may not be old either. Boone Pickens is 80, pooping without assistance, walking without assistance (in fact, working out every day), and eating normally. Oh, and by the way, making $1Billion+ a year trading oil. But i do agree, 35 is not old. Nor...

If you misplace or damage your device IB will issue a temporary passcode. No one has been shut out for days or weeks. Absolute bullshit. Evidently you don't need to be with a company to be an idiot. You're proof of that. OldTrader

I believe I got your point. I think my point escaped you. I think it takes certain talents to trade a bigger time frame. Those talenets are different than the talents it takes to day trade. So one of my points is that in all likelihood many of these so-called "big money guys" don't have...

What 3-day weekend is this? I don't see a holiday Monday. OldTrader