The U.S. stock market is one of the few remaining markets that does not trade on a 24-hour basis. Futures markets trade 23 to 24 hours a day, five and a half days a week depending on the product; cryptocurrency markets trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However,...
Before an order is eligible to be sent for execution, it must pass through a broker’s pre-trade risk check to ensure the order is not violating any pre-determined thresholds. This rule is known as Rule 15c3-5, but what is this rule exactly? Bob Iaccino...
More and more traders are hearing about Direct Market Access (DMA) brokers, so we are looking at some of the major differences between DMA brokers versus traditional retail trading brokers. DMA is the process that developed as financial markets moved on from...