This is correct. BTW, < 100 shares is called an "odd-lot". > 100 shares, but not an even multiple of 100, is called a "mixed-lot". There...
The cool thing is that if you don't like it, you're free to develop (or have developed) an alternative front-end, using their APIs. As long as you...
I can't resist a good flame war :-) Funny. Perhaps if you actually formed whole individual sentences, capitalized, and punctuated properly,...
Speak for yourself! I have scripts that auto-process my emailed statements when they are received. Having to download my statements every day...
I'd like to know if anyone (else) is trading stocks with an app that integrates with one of the IB TWS APIs?
Not really. I don't understand why it was addressed "dear futures traders". I got my gray hair quota for the year because of NYSE being down for...
It's the same ugly applet that is used for Naz level II. The current beta notes talk about cosmetic improvements that should help. It appears...
Is this like a filibuster? Is someone going to start reciting recipes? :-)
There appears to be a bug in their front page. This link seems to get you somewhere useful: http://www.lionsgrouptrading.com/secure/root.jsp
I'd say scary is better description. If they're as clueless as their website makes them appear, I feel bad for anyone that falls into their trap....
I think we should form a pool on how the retention numbers shake out :-) While I admire you, Don, for wanting to post what you find, I'm taking...
This is true, if you're trading options. It's required by the rules of the option exchanges, who want to restrict competition with their MMs by...
Remember that kid in New Jersey though, that the SEC decided to make their ground-breaking case. (BTW, I found it truly bizarre that they...
Are you certain that this is BTrade's policy? Is there something in writing somewhere that says this? What you are describing looks like the...
As an alternative to a commercial system like Tradelog, it's easy to simply export the trades from TWS (using File->Export Reports and save with a...
If you write it yourself or contribute the algorithms to the programmer, it's a white box. If you buy someone else's system, without explanation...
Can someone help me understand how these rooms, systems, etc. work? If the guy that calls the trade says buy KKD, and even 20 people jump on it...
You can also step through the dozen or so sectors in the Yahoo Finance sector thingy: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/s_mktu.html You can sort them...
This latest issue is kind of disappointing, given that I have seen improvements in their handling of some issues as a result of all the bitching...
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