I was trying to buy BABA premarket, only 10 shares because I never trade pre-market and the spread is too wide for my taste. Just to see how ToS works...I never got filled. ToS shows prints for 1 share, 5 shares...etc but I never got my damn 10 shares, I matched in the DOM for offer and nothing. Maybe that offer for only for full 100 shares but I see the time of sales all sorts of prints. ToS shows my order is good and "working" BYW.
BABA premarket.
- Thread starter TimtheEnchanter
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Sadly, ET is as degenerate as some of the losers visiting it. It used to be a good source of information and when I post about a subject I like to receive some intelligent answers if nothing. NOTHING is better than some of the personal attacks and useless drivels given.
I was saying the other day about how worthless premarket and after market trades are. The bid and ask are as wide as 989 grand canyons. Its ridiculous. As I mentioned the trading day needs to be expanded from 6.5 hrs to at least 10 hours. This isn't 1978 its 2020. Let's get real.
- No ..... leave the trading day as it is.
- IMO ..... the pre-market and after-markets are good for the option traders. They need the gap ups and down.
I am not into pre or aftermarket either, TDAmeritrade says I can trade, yet seemingly I cannot. I know I better address this with my broker. But there are a lot of users of ToS here so I figured I can get some hint, TD Ameritrade calls are 40 minutes wait and my assigned broker just quit, presumably because of the Schwab merger.
TDA is selling order flow and possibly no one was interested in your order.
Were you able to check whether your bid was showing on the exchange(s)?
And pre-market trading can be tricky anyway, even more so with odd lots. A broker like IB has many settings and algos to try to fill orders, not sure about TDA. You’d basically need to test different brokers and order settings if you wanted to trade outside of RTH more often.
My bid was showing on the DOM, level 2 is informational and if I enter an order it will go to the DOM. It is not a big issue as I plan not to trade aftermarket stocks. [I can trade futures then]