Actually I have a few other accounts, some accounts never used, all received similar emails. accounts under some other person's name which i trade, received this email too.
Interactive Brokers is conducting a routine review of your account UXXXXXX and we need to ask you a few brief questions.
This is not a marketing call or a solicitation.
Please contact us in the Compliance Department at +1 312-542-6935 between 9:00AM and 5:00PM Central Time. If this time is...
the question is legitimate since technology advances fast. even if AI has not totally replaced manual traders, it has already replaced lots of market makers or traders on sell side. some hedge funds have already employed AI to make money. if more hedge firms can make money using AI, more people...
Basically I want to be filled at bid and ask but I am not the price setter because I do not know if the price is fair. I like other to set the price and I only participate
my strategy needs me to fill at bid and ask, but not the one who are the only person at the bid and ask. One way is to use relative order, but the problem is that the order only becomes more aggressive even though the original bid and ask share has been retracted, at that time i become the only...
first let us know what your performance is, e.g., win/loss ratio, profit factor, trading frequency, holding time, etc. if you have a strategy that trades once per year, no one cares.
If you are a day trader, possibly 1-2 years is enough, which possibly has covered all situations a day trader may come upon. if you are a swing trader, you need to cover bull and bear cycle, which last many years. I found it is quite hard to manually back test a strategy, since it tends to loose...
this account had no problem buying t-bill a few months ago. in another linked account, i already bought 1 million t-bills. but this account 600k can not get filled for a few days.
i used to be able to fill the ask, but after a few minute after I send order to buy at ask. even if spread is small, but ask size is still huge. i do not know why I can not lift the ask size.