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qwerty11: It is not as good now. I'm pretty sure the warning happens 2 business days after now (around 11 AM EST). 75% and 90% warnings. I asked IBKR to give us something live and they said they would but that was a couple years ago....

Agreed, however there WILL come a point where they will be out of options and will likely protect the value of money. I'm about 80% certain they will do the right thing at some point and it will be extremely painful to the economy (severe long depression) -as doing the wrong thing would be...

Crypto will end when G7 nations start protecting the value of their currencies via Balance sheet reduction and deficit reduction. Until then - look for crypto to outperform all other assets (stocks/bonds/real estate cash). So it likely will be years as no one wants to protect the value of fiat...

Yes, this is much better (a year old but better). I love the man and the stories that he tells. Love the hiring attractive women just so the MM's would trade with him. I can relate as I once hired the "dumbest" trader and that resulted in better fills as everyone wanted to trade against this...

thanks for sharing.

thanks!

I've been in this business for over 30 years and this has to be the craziest thing I have ever seen. Why isn't there more non US residents complaining about this? The IRS effectively wants PTP's that strictly are American to be owned only by Americans. Effectively this is what the tax law...

Here is what you can do if the stock has equity options: 1) Buy a Conversion (way out of the money on the call side) and as long as you don't get assigned on the short calls (ie stock price stays below strike) then you have effectively borrowed the shares at a defined rate over a period of time...

been around since 1987 (great year to start trading) buy the dip...how can you lose? (lol) and quick - buy some more crypto

Brokers/Wholesalers/Exchanges working together. You wonder why there are conflicts of interest in the marketplace........

I'm not a fundamental guy but... quick calculation: QE has been the reason why every asset class has gone up. If the S&P just went to pre covid earnings ($125) and slap a more reasonable valuation 15X. And this market is vulnerable (<2,000) Imagine if long rates go to 8% and earnings fall...

Makes no sense to us. But to "them" it does.... ajacobson: Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack the direction of this thread. I feel the need to educate as many as possible.

This rule was created in 2009 and it may have had some credibility back then. However, today it is one of the worst rules in the marketplace. Because of things like PFOF, Data Co-location and technology advantages, there is no way a retail trader could ever truly compete as a market maker...

The Adaptive ALGO is not the same

In the options market - in the vast majority of cases, the posted prices are crap. This is precisely what the wholesalers want (wide spreads) - just waiting for investors to make mistakes. However, given the competition from this group (wholesalers) they are also waiting in the weeds with...

This is Excellent! You can set out the floor and ceiling prices, increment and time delay. This would be helpful at IBKR. Yes, you could do this yourself but all cancel replace orders would be then counted. If done by the broker dealer (ie their ALGO) - only the parent order (1) is counted...

estimate. There is no report as to who is on the other side of your trades. However, when you enter a buy order and get filled instantly (ie your order never shows up in the NBBO - at least you don't see it) - that is a machine selling to you. This is why you are likely better off using a...

John: I trade over 100K contracts per month and all of my orders are entered manually. I can tell you that what happened to you happens to me many times per day. Read FSU's post re the auction process (most Exchanges have this). Yes, this is yet another reason there are so many arb...

You have gotten most of the info here already but I will add the following: IBKR will send you an email to warn you - hopefully prior to you going over the threshold. I worked with someone who designed the warning in the following way. If there are 20 trading days in a month (Like Jan). Then...

yes. certain data has been very poor (symbols >"S") via the complex order market for a couple months. Really bad today! Probably related to your issue.