[mmsmatt]

As far as I can tell, Trigger is neither broker nor advisor. Why a company that is none of those wants to touch my securities, I can think of no charitable reason for that.

There exist a million reasons you do not want not-quite-stop-limit orders on SPY or GOOG in your personal account, you are up against trade execution systems that smoke your retail broker not to mention this outfit (who you now put between you & your broker).

Please do not bring a butter knife to a gun fight and lose your shirt.

[dimino]

But what if all I want to do is spread butter, not murder someone?

[rachelita]

http://bodyecology.com/articles/benefits_of_real_butter.php

[vehementi]

What do you mean by smoke in this context?

[philippnagel]

Retail investors can't compete with HFT in terms of order execution speed.

[vehementi]

Sure, but do they need to? Let's accept that HFT vampires steal a bit of the value I wanted to get. But my value is not in trying to be a HFT, it is in (ostensibly) calling that GOOG will go up or something. How does HFT screw me over in that regard?

[mod]

That would only matter if they were executing on the same trigger, wouldn't it?