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The best education a trader can get is by doing it the hard way, trading. Keep your size under control and gain the experience.

My wife is Italian; reading this thread is like arguing with her ...

One should not follow gurus ...

50% is typical in the private trading groups I know.

I agree with most of what you are saying. The test you propose assumes a live order, that you already have requested and qued the symbol on, which may or may not have equal or higher priority than a request for quote, as in when you first enter the symbol. Last week I found out that at TN...

and we are scratching our hearts out here ...

I think they died hard ...

Now if only the PHLX wouldn't hold your cancel for two minutes ...

Just heard again about some guys in NY setting up an option ECN. Anyone heard anything else?

Up or down, I do not care; if it gets any slower I am going on vacation ...

Mskl, In all fairness, before someone gets the wrong idea; that comparision is against a professional feed with dedicated on-site servers and PTP connections. But, that is the edge ...

We switched a server over months ago to TAL, there absolutely is a problem, with what you are trading maybe you haven't noticed it; however they still are the best retail feed and would be on the top of my list for an independant trader.

You might add, if you have the ability to track it; number of site views before a post is allowed; might keep H****n on his toes ...

We all know that the US options markets are the most slanted game in the world, what else is new?

Yes.

You got it. If you don't have a key field you need to store the string and compare, a lot harder.

TAL has severe latency in a fast market; i.e. 5 second plus, and it gets worse on inactive options. However, they still are the best solution for retail option quotes.

I agree.

Well, since we are being more constructive now; you are saying that RT's option quotes are faster than IBs? If that is the case, if you are the guy I was talking to over the phone a month or two ago; I believe we talked about RT option quote problems. If that is the case, I thought I told you...