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Commission-free trading in US stocks and ETFs for US residents
Free tier availableCommission-free US stocks/ETFs, higher margin rates (6.37%)
Hi all, I always see a lot of comments about this forex company, that FCM, IB or whatever and who plays by the rules. So, I got my Series 3 certification about a year ago and I learned a lot about the whole process. Here is a great link that will help you learn more about those entities to look up what their past records look like: BASIC Search Also, here are some top brokers already and I have to say, I haven't looked at this in a while and boy was it shocking to see some of the...
A complicated jumble of questions (not you fault that it's a "jumble," that's just the best way I can describe it. The industry presents a pretty complicated jumble of products to traders looking more for simplicity and orderliness -- which unfortunately you will find hard to get. Sorry :). ) Your experience with IB, which is an all-in-one shop, may have made things outside of their environment harder to understand. Here are the elements of the overall situation: 1. Trading...
Interactive Brokers is widely known for filtering data. It's snapshot data, meaning that they aggregate info, and send you a 'snapshot' of what it looks like every 250ms or so. This means you are not getting all the ticks, not getting all the L2 depth changes, not even getting all the volume. If you trade daily bars or even minute data, then you won't care about this. But if you are using tick based data: ie tick, range, renko, volume or other exotic bar types, then you should not be using IB...
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