oh no it never front runs. two 3,000 share orders would go in with yours always being first. your trade is what initiates that second trade to begin with.Quote from rjv27:
I am assuming that the blackbox will immediately send a order out when I hit the key. If that is the case a market order for 6,000 shs will go out at once and the stock (if thin enough) will most likely spread up and I would get a worse price than if I went market 3000 shs. And what about if I am long 3,000 - 4,000 shs and I am WRONG, not only do I have to work some magic to get out of my shs, but now I have to worry about some blackbox slamming the market as well. I don't trade thin stocks but to drop 8k on the market when I'm wrong would not be a good thing.
Also I think that a computer could figure out your strategy if it wanted to, it would not be a big deal for them to do.
But if I had a Q's or SPY strategy, trading really think stocks, or had a longer holding period. I might be interested.
i'm not a partner, but with all of the questions i've been getting, i did recommend that they implement hidden mimic orders on the limit buys/sells if the trader chooses. if i'm in a position, and i wanna get out @ limit asap, i wouldn't want 2X my order sitting on the inside sell. it may scare away potential buyers, and drive down the price. i visible bid/offer will always take precedence over a hidden, so the trader would have nothing to worry about.
i was just using those numbers as a quick example of how it works. we could be wrong and have a trade move against us without the box. if we did slam out @ market, the box will do the same, but after you.
They would pay probably much less than the promised 20%...