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What exactly did you do?

Any idea how much will you pay for bandwidth to get market data?

What Jigsaw has for free is all the theory you need. The rest is practice and cannot be bought. What instruments do you trade?

IB may not be best choice for trading fast markets. Not sure if you have anything better available.

So what happens if I don’t read fast enough or at all? Also, as I just started experimenting with the api, it would be really nice to have some sort of keepalives going on web sockets.

Awesome! Keep them coming guys.

Speaking for myself, I can ask a question but have nothing to contribute on the topic, so just reading other people opinions.

That’s why I don’t really consider these systems as having a real edge, more like tendencies to either trend or mean revert.

I think it depends on where the edge comes from. So if your system is buying pull backs in a bull market, it will work while the bull market in effect.

Well, if you would like to buy but you see that offer holds, maybe it’s better to wait for it to clear first.

Hm, unless he is 5yo, it sounds like you may make it worse by “helping.” They are all low probably, so better to make piece with this early. Just my opinion.

The value of joining prop firm is not in education but rather in the opportunity to be around successful traders and being held accountable. The education is kind of like core curriculum in college, imho.

Are you talking from experience or ...

I don’t think you provided enough info on your “professional” career, so I am with Mark for that reason.

Hello and welcome! Just curious why are you on ET, pretty sure not to defend your parents' reputation from random strangers.

No such thing. Also gap can be caused by news during regular hours and you will still be filled at post-gap price.

Who are you asking?

Well, I can't speak for him, but to me, it's an "income" trade. Let's say one wants to establish bear call spread. Why not open the short leg and then wait and see where the stock is going? If it tanks, great. If it bounces around, still good. If it rips, buy the shares instead of buying...

@taowave, the way I understood his question is that he simply wants to delay buying shares into a covered call until stock actually reaches the strike. Once the call becomes ITM, he will buy the shares so that he can get assigned. What is wrong with that from the perspective of covered call...