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If you know a bit what you are doing and read the manual before you start you won't have any problems with IB, they are great, been there almost 8 years now ...

It's more complicated than that, if you just wait for reversion to the mean you will get killed. You delta hedge. pseudo market making only applies to options

I used to do a kind of version of this, but bidding on different strikes than offering and using an option model to delta-hedging. Those days are gone with cancellation costs and penny spreads, it was a real edge, it was really profitable ...

It's putting up a bid and a offer in an option serie, it's not allowed ...

where have you heard this ... ? I very much doubt this unless you know something I don't

When I'm doing a volatility play I'm hedging big time when I'm long options, how else are you going to overcome theta effect ?

That's the problem: from what I read here it seems you have no clue at all what you are doing. You want do a volatility trade, yet you don't know how it works. You don't want to delta-hedge but that is the essence of volatility trading, this is necessary to compensate for your loss in theta if...

any thoughts ? where to begin ? it seems like you have no idea at all what volatility trading is about ... vol-plays are done through delta-hedging and not for one day ... just for starters ...

Paranoia is a mental disease, SEEK HELP !

I don't understand why open intrest is that important to you, if the price is right you should be able to trade, that's important. Even when there is not open intrest in one series, if the other series are liquid a market maker will always be ready to make a sharp price.

I won't bother replying to your nonsense ... I live in Belgium so it doesn't make much difference if he is from France.

1 I don't care if they are a market maker, I set my own price, either they are a counterparty or they are not, I don't care as long as I get my orders done as quickly as possible at my price or better, IB provides that in a great way. 2 I don't care about direct routing, I use smart, which is...

it must be me, but I still don't understand why IB is no good :confused: :confused: :confused:

IB is really great for options with really great rates, you will have a hard time finding better rates with only 30.000 USD. I know what I'm talking about there have been years when I have traded over 50000 options through them.

two years is nothing

why don't you want to trade with interactivebrokers, they are great for options ?

Easy, it works the other way around, Timber Hill is quoting markets and when they have an order they look if Timber Hill is the best ... not exactly rocket science ...

yes, but I also want to follow Belgian, French, Dutch, German and Italian stocks, that's why I'm talking about yahoo quotes ...

I'm looking for some chart software were I can look at charts created with yahoo quotes. The reason for this is I live in Europe and want to follow lot's of stocks worldwide. I don't mind the delay as I'm using this for swingtrading over several weeks or longer. At the moment I'm using...

I did some extensive backtesting on several timeframes/tickcharts intraday with this about two years ago, the results were very poor to negative ...