Arsus Kickus
Private, 1st Class
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Perhaps this company would like to submit an account for FPA Performance Testing?
Not sure that is required as I am monitoring my own account for peace of mind ...
Early this morning (06 Nov) when I checked my account, I had four trades placed by Fortress. The time stamps were sequentially ascending (getting bigger) and the order numbers increased in ascending range, both of which are expected with sequential trades. Then, I checked early this afternoon (06 Nov) and, lo and behold, those four trades multiplied into nine! ...
The first strange thing is that the timestamps for the trades were exactly the same as the ones that were previously placed! First question; if trades were all placed at the same time as the original four, then why would I have not seen them in my trading window at the time of first observation?
Second question; the order numbers were not in the expected sequence order ... in fact, other trades of later time stamps (and sequential order numbers) were placed between the trades that had the same time stamps as the original four trades! So, if the trades were placed at the same time as the original four, why would their order numbers not also be correspondingly in sequence?
I have attached the two screen shots but, blackened out the order numbers for fear that they will identify me and wipe my account, if they have not done so already. The important thing to notice is that I sorted the order number column in each screenshot so that the order numbers are A-Z, or smallest (and therefore the earliest trade placed) to largest so you can see that I was comparing apples to apples, so to speak.
I am sensing more and more that Knight is an off market broker and/or that Fortress are manipulating their trades ... in fact, the way that Knight appear to be communicating with Fortress, it would not surprise me that they are the same people ...