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IB is a public company, worth 20B. there are lots of traders like me who want to switch, but there is no second broker which can directly compete with IB on the following features at the same time: 1) API support 1) low commision 2) low margin rate 3) broad market to trade there are so many...

that is the final solution if I can not improve oer.

IB also gives me the 2% fill rate, I was curious if you were in the same situation before so you know the 2% number. I did not know there was such a cutoff warning line until I contacted ib. My order has to be sitting on nbbo to be lifted,so It is hard to reduce oer. I am searching alternative...

where did you get the cut-off 2% fill rate?

who can use prime broker？ my impression is it is for institutions. And which prime broker accept individuals?

order fill ratio. send 100 order, 1 executed, oer=100

I have been with IB for many years, recently IB becomes more and more unfriendly. my trading needs to send orders to exchange directly, for example, send to Drctedge or arca. By doing that in IB, it charges very high commission. not only that, IB puts my account in close-only status complaining...

what does amibroker provide given my background is a programmer and I write my own software to output entry and exit signals?

how do you avoid pattern day trading rule?

I have been with IB for more than 10 years, I always think about changing to other broker that, like IB, provides direct access to the exchange, e.g., sending orders directly to DRCTEDGE. there was a broker called genesis in nyc that provided such business with very low commission, unfortunately...

I do not understand what you mean. Can you explain in layman term?

100fills out 10k orders. IB complains the rate is so high that I use too much their computer resource. If the order is sent by dashtrader, it does not use IB resource...

I guess around 100. Using dash trader will let IB not complain about low fill rate?

I am confused using dashtrader with interactivebrokers. In this case, if I send 10000 orders to ARCA, will the order be sent to ARCA directly by dashtrader? does IB know the 10000 orders I send to ARCA? suppose dashtrader sends my 10000 order to ARCA directly, if the order is filled...

because I want more fills. which is the other software that can replace IB?

I hate tws which freezes frequently if I submit 10000 orders. I wonder why there is not any other alternative broker competing with ib?

for llc account, If I use data from IQFeed, do I still pay professional data fee for multiple brokerage accounts? In this case , I should be able to use IQFeed data anyway I want, right?

Wow so crazy

it is possible, not hard at all

this kind of wisdom is useless. everyone can find bunch of them from google, yet few people are successful in trading.