Subject: Re: stop orders
From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 13:56:55 PST
hallowel@math.unc.edu (Karl Evan Hallowell) writes:
>I guess that stops and stop limits are public information like limit
>orders. The reason I'm concerned is that this would make it much easier
>for someone to troll for stops by calculating beforehand how much they can
>get if they push the price so much in a particular direction. I will
>exploit stops in this way if the information is public. <insert weaselly
>rationalization here>
It looks like stop orders are currently available to the public only via
the database dumps at http://www.usifex.com/if/usifex.public.sql.gz, and
this is updated once a day with info that is 24 hours old.
You are probably correct that this would be exploited. I will change it
to exclude stop order info.
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