I do have to say though that I've never tried anything as low as 5 shares or 1 share. (Maybe that Berkshire Hathaway I bought - just kidding)....
I trade odd lots very often w/ IB, because I have a smallish IRA account with them. It generally works very well for me but there are times when...
From what I've read there are about 10,000 professional and institutional traders. And of course their actions dominate the mkts. Each of them...
Thanks! Europe is confusing to a newbie. I looked up DCX on Yahoo and found it traded on about 10 exchanges and struggled to find even the...
Forgive my ignorance but what is the XETRA exchange and where is it located?
Anybody know how I can get a ticker list of all stocks on the German exchange? Can't quite find it anywhere. Thanks.
I remember that link, but I still find it hard to believe that they could get involved with equities w/o anyone knowing about it. But, hey,...
Can't imagine how they'd do it w/o a "Deep Throat" somewhere finding out...
All I can say is that if they're proping up the mkt, they're doing a lousy job! :D The only institution that can "prop up the mkt" is the...
On yahoo I saw a PNK market. I assume it's foreign. What does it stand for?
Thanks for all the analysis! I wish you were writing for Yahoo...
Yahoo Finance posted another one of its invaluable comments on the markets today: "It appears the weaker-than-expected Philly Fed Index has...
Actually, I'm local admin on my box. I could probably just change the secure socket port and get it to work. But this is an anal financial...
My work uses a proxy server and TWS will not work with it nor do they have any work-around. I'm already signing up with Brown. My brother-in-law...
Thanks for the info on Scotrade. I am debating between them, Ameritrade and Brown & Co. (I don't think I can afford the other.) I'm a swing...
Are there any decent retail brokers with order pricing somewhere in between IB and say Scott/Ameritrade? (I can't use IB any more and I was...
I've used IB's basic TWS at my work for months now and love it. However, we just got moved to the corporate headquarters where they have a proxy...
I wish I had access to a Bloomberg terminal. <<sigh>>
Does anyone know where there's any information already out there on the correlation between U.S. equity mkts and various foreign equity markets?...
I can find a chart of the CBOE Put/Call ratio on stockcharts.com. Does anyone know where I can find the OEX Put/Call ratio in a chart format?
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