If you trade an order of 100 options, with Eoption it costs you $13; do you pay less than that with IB?
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100 option contracts costs $70 at IB (I trade with them too). At eoption, it would be $13, as stated above. If limit orders are used, it should be far cheaper to trade with eoption. What am I missing?
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What if your limit order doesn't get filled? Keep in mind there are numerous option exchanges and an active SMART router should increase your chances of a fill. Also, what about when you want to exit a trade? Are you hitting the bid or working a limit? You should also note that can get price improvement when placing a marketable bid and that price improvement alone with IB will make up the difference. I also suspect that if you are trading 100 options at a time actively you would have much more success with a direct access broker than a web based broker.
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If you are trying to buy at bid, or between bid and ask, or at ask but with a penny spread then price improvement with IB does nothing for you.
If you are trying to buy at a bigger spread then it would seem IB does do something. However, you start with a hurdle of $.70 per contract (for options prices above $.05) instead of $.10 per contract.
Also, with IB, you pay a lot on exchange fees, even when using smart route, and even when trying to buy at bid--as it will reroute to e.g. PSE to fill your order as if you are buying at ask.