Quote from tomahawk:
I found Peterfly's concern that multiple brokerages could fail on any given day the way things currently stand a bit disconcerting.
yes. have no doubt's about it.He can count on me... i'm very active successful daytrader for a decade or so. my primary brokerage is IB. i'm considering to stop all my day trading all together, if there is no changes. it is impossible to get into a winning trade in medium\low volume stocks. period. IMPOSSIBLE. tens of trades trough my open,visible limit NBBO orders..EVERY SINGLE DAY ..when i call to IB and ask wtf is going on and how and why those executions are posted(some of them 2-3-5% below\above NBBO at this time,during regular trading session) the respond is always same-exemption from rule 611.
HEY SEC! why do we need a fucking rules, if there is a PAGES OF FUCKING EXEMPTIONS from it? i tried to read this shit about rule 611..i'm sorry..you know, the english is not my native language..but..i can't understand none of this shit..not even one sentence! who wrote this? can't the y do this in PLAIN FUCKING ENGLISH? here, you can try it yourself. come back after that and explain,how one can trade 3% below my bid(which is NBBO at that time), during the regular market hours.
not only they trade trough, they fucked up the data that many of us using for backtesting..whatever you can say about conspiracy, but i believe all this done purposely.zero transparency in US markets today.. ZERO. just plain BS,BS and more BS..useless rules and regulations,followed by exemptions, ridiculous number of market centers..every fucking city in US have their own stock exchange..every single one..and they all trade same stocks..why? i don't fucking get it..then why NYSE and nasdaq even exists?
why those two exchanges are not interested to have as many executions as possible at their exchanges? i just don't fucking get it..
http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/34-50870.htm#P222_67067
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/rule611faq.pdf
explain it to me, i'm all ears..
Thank you!