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    Stand Alone OpenBook

    Hey - which charting (not necessarily execution) software has Stand Alone Openbook? Ideas?
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    what time do you get up in the morning to trade? Also, what is the "pit open"

    You're not serious. The real pit open is actually a buying or selling Non-held order (indicated by raising arms and exposing the armpit - or "pit") to be fair, it can be used at both the coffee stand and to get coke by the loo
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    When HFT Steals Liquidity - Exploratory Trading In The eMini

    What a load of Crap! how is this manipulation? on what capital? making 800k on 5BB dollar fund is under 4% return. No specifics given - number is meaningless Moreover, who cares how much they are making - just b/c someone is making $, doesn't mean they are doing something "VERY VERY...
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    Capital Available for Traders

    what if the traders are trading prop - ie not their own account. do they submit their reports from the prop /private firm?
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    Remote Capital Allocation

    pretty cool idea - but the question is the costs. 2nd is logistics of the capital 3rd is the regulation(?) also -you have broken links in ur post.suggest u tidy those up.
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    Firms that provide > 20MM Hard BP

    i love the armchair trading gurus on et. First of all. No one said our account is 300k. willing to put up 300k is a different story. Regardless, 300k is NOT a small retail account. ETC as a clearing firm has less net capital. and its totally irrelevant. now regarding returns. if you...
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    Firms that provide > 20MM Hard BP

    depends on the deal and if we are comfortable where the money is held. Min 100k. Can we put up more? 200k sure, 300k np, the deal needs to make sense.
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    Firms that provide > 20MM Hard BP

    Bright is probably not an option - they make their money in commission - this is where money has to be made on a profit split. The commissions have to be very very low, and have ability to trade with existing relationships with the street. 20MM is bare minimum for it to make sense for us to...
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    Firms that provide > 20MM Hard BP

    Hi all, decided to try this. We have a strategy that requires lots of hard BP (intraday/~0 overnight). The strategy is very very scaleable, and the more BP the more is made. Simply borrowing the cash won't make sense - it will not return a decent enough return to cover interest and risk and...
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    KCG 2.50 SEP Puts too cheap?

    anyone else feel that way?
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    SAC Capital’s Cohen Opens Up

    because you can. i would never give any money to anyone to manage, but just because someone likes a big house - and they can afford it - then party in bathroom #5
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    where to trade in cyprus

    internet is horrific. Paphos/limassos any suggestions?
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    FINRA fired arbitrators after they sided with customers

    And how is this outrageous? you wrote: The facts behind the case between Merrill and the customer are not mentioned here, however it must have been quite obvious for the FINRA arbitrators as their decision overwhelmingly went in favor of the customer so you do not know the facts and...
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    NEW story about Penson/Apex. Worth a read for those that clear thru Penson.

    what does Lek have to do with this? How is Wedbush different?
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    What broker will let me trade European bonds?

    PM me - i may have someone for you
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    Quotes in propfirm

    oh yes, and NYSE will go all pro soon (for prop). (actually they've always been pro for prop - just some vendors were getting away with treating users as non-pro) nyse realized this is a great profit center.
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    Quotes in propfirm

    totally inaccurate. NYSE/NASDAQ will pump data (UDP) to the vendor. Vendor then pumps data to end user. Nyse/nq thruput/stress doesn't depend on how much data the end user is using. The vendor does, however they have a pure monopoly on their own data. and they have the ability to...
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    Avalon FA

    they clear through lek, not face of it. from what i heard very solid. but if you are US based - no need for any groups - go direct. (or get licensed and go CBSX prop or bright or something registered and licensed)
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    Is "window dressing" illegal?

    They do - but on a very very small level. Consider a very large holding: say 10MM shares of XYZ with a trading volume of 50k shares per day. They can jam the stock with 50k extra shares at the close (or even less perhaps) thus making their positions 10,050,000, only a 1/2% increase in their...
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