Which ECN has the best rebates?

Quote from WinstonTJ:

Depends... Are you taking or providing liquidity?

Does your strategy require you to be at the front of the line?
Adding. It doesn't.
 
Quote from Daal:Adding. It doesn't.

If you are adding liquidity do you want to get paid the most or filled first?

If you want to get paid the most that's usually a very competitive space. If you want to get fills think about where traders go when they need to take liquidity.
 
Quote from hft_boy:

That's a pretty mysterious response. Care to elaborate?

I know you're not asking me, but I'm confident in saying that this is an incredibly comlplex problem. Exchanges are adding ever-more complex (and rapidly changing) pricing schemes and order types in an effort to differentiate themselves in a market where differentiation is getting ever harder, even as volume shrinks and B/D internalization rears its ugly head in defiance of a (haltingly) opposed SEC that wishes otherwise.

I think the investing public would be better off if all venues adopted identical pricing for adding vs. removing liquidity (rather than favoring adders or removers over the other), and B/D internalization and payment-for-order-flow were explicitly banned. But of course many B/D's wouldn't like this (as the present system gives them backdoor income at the expense of their retail clients) .
 
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