Slow strategies have a broker advantage nobody mentions

Everything in this board about latency, routing, queue position and fill quality applies with enormous force to fast strategies and almost none to mine. When you hold for days, a few cents on entry is genuinely noise. That's not because I'm a better trader, it's a structural property of the timeframe, and it's one of the few free lunches available. Worth considering if you're fighting execution problems: sometimes the cheapest fix is a slower strategy rather than a faster connection.
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IndicatorSkeptic· Jul 2026 ago
Annoyingly correct. Most execution problems are self-inflicted by timeframe choice.
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MomoQueen· Jul 2026 ago
I'm not giving up my timeframe but I'll admit you're paying less rent than I am.
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CoffeeAndCharts· Jul 2026 ago· edited Aug 2026 ago
Ha, this is basically why my mornings got calmer. When I moved out to multi-day holds I stopped caring whether I got filled at the open or twenty minutes into it. Coffee first, orders later, and nothing bad happens. The other bit nobody says: slower also means fewer chances to fat-finger a ticket at 6am.
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