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Summary:
Most important in choosing a brokerage firm is the per trade slippage, the difference between the stop order price and execution price.

Based on a study I saw some years back, ten orders were placed with five commission houses. New York markets are notorious for their slippage, as is the Chicago pork belly market.

Any broker who allows this kind of slippage to occur on his customer's orders is not worth having as a broker. If the fills are bad, they will dump the bad floor broker and use another.


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“Hey Joe! I need help finding a broker. I notice that discount service rates are pretty much the same. So how do I choose?”

Commission is definitely not the most important factor in electoral a broker. Most important in election a doing business firm is the per trade slippage, the difference midst the stop order price and execution price.

Based on a study I saw some years back, ten orders were placed with five implementation houses. All orders were priced in the same market at the same price, to come the market opened. The difference in slippage from worst to best was over $800. Slippage one year for Rosenthal-Collins trading one and two contracts of the S&P, was over $20,000 per account. The floor odd-lot dealer for the majority of those trades was Mario De Bartolo. All the fills were supposedly legal. One order for 15 contracts was to sell at 45. The market took over two minutes to fall in one-tick increments to even money, at 00, in preparation for an up tick. All 15 contracts were unbelievably filled at 00. Slippage on the order was $3,375. A week later rare order was slipped over $2,000, then all were closed. lurid once had the daily high and low in the opening range. I was filled on my buy stop and sell stop at the high and low of the day, 360 points times three. Legalized theft. The wholesaler could have taken both sides of the orders. New York markets are notorious for their slippage, as is the Chicago pork downside market.

Any diamond broker who allows this kind of slippage to occur on his customer’s orders is not worth having as a broker. There are shot firms that gingerly monitor the kinds of fills their customers are getting from the floor. If the fills are bad, they will dump the bad floor stock dealer and use another. Bad floor brokers can be penalized that way. They lose the business. A good middleman will do bloodshed for his/her customers. That’s why we use the cotton broker we are currently using. If you want a referral, let me know. I’ll be happy to give it.

Joe Ross
Trading Educators Inc



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