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Re: Interactive Brokers Stock MKT or LMT orders ????



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Hehe. Yes.

Ivan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Schulz" <prog1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Interactive Brokers Stock MKT or LMT orders ????


> There's also a non-advanced scenario in which market orders are useful:
> Reversing a mistake ;-)
>
> At 09:15 19/03/02 -0600, Ivan Figueredo wrote:
> >99% of all orders of a professional trader should be LMT (versus MKT.)
There
> >are reasons to use MKT orders, but all the ones that come to mind are in
> >"advanced" strategies.
> >
> >Ivan
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ian McVicar" <icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "OmegaList" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "QCharts"
<qcharts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:48 PM
> >Subject: Interactive Brokers Stock MKT or LMT orders ????
> >
> >
> > > Sorry if topic is off user group subject matter.
> > >
> > > But...
> > >
> > > I am just about commence trading stocks on NYSE and NAS with IB. There
> > > execution is 2 sec or so.
> > >
> > > If you are an equity trader what order type do you advise with IB, MKT
or
> >LMT,
> > > any advice would be great ?
> > >
> > > Thx in advance.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > >
>
>