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Thanks for your research and clarification.

I use both TW and Tradier. My impression is that order filling is worse in Tradier, A few times, even with bid/ask price I was not able to fill the trade directly. It took some time, while in TW (and when I was using IBKR), I have no 'data' to back this up, so maybe someone else has different experience.

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