I think, in the two cases I posted about earlier, the specialist's actions were reasonable. Did I miss something in those? Even if you trade a...
IB's TWS is pretty light on system resources. Where did you get this idea? The oldest machine I'm running TWS on is a PIII-450, but I'm sure it...
Personally,when I was first learning trading in the "SOES bandit" days, I remember "scalping" to mean making markets inside the spread, which...
Great link, Don. Thanks! You should post your favorites (links) list. It's so hard to find "the good stuff" among the huge number of sites out...
That's usually the effect of a re-organization - the company is "re-capitalized" as part of the plan. Usually, the stock is _already_ worthless,...
Just to clarify, I'm talking about trades that I put on in the after-hours session. I'm essentially putting on a spread to lock in a profit on a...
It seems that it's only reported monthly: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp Same with the NYSE:...
Maybe I missed something? The 800@65.50 trade was at 10:16, in a 65.50-68.50 market (i.e. at the bid). The 500@69.00 trade was at 11:00 and is...
So far, so good. Looks like you read it right. Huh? Why was this situation any different? There was suddenly 38000 shares to buy. In this...
Looking at the tape, the bid dropped at 14:05:34, and the offer was suddenly 100x45.90, which was pretty weighty, considering the quotes before...
Last night, there was news that BA got a contract from the DOD for $1B/year over 5 years. This seemed insignificant compared to their $60B annual...
This was the first print >= 09:30:00, occurred on an ECN, and is apparently what a lot of quote vendors are using nowdays for "the open". FWIW, my...
You don't have to wait for the stock to open if you send the orders direct to NYSE. I know you can send them at least as early as 09:25 - I...
Great info. Who are you talking about? :-) Someone else posted about H&R Block, maybe on a different thread. I'd guess that you would be pretty...
We're talking about IB.
Hmmm. I'm going to guess at something here. Where I live, I have neither DSL nor cable modem available, so I have to use dialup connections, which...
Bottom line: cost is a primary concern for me. Everyone else charges more just in their pass-through ECN and exchange fees than IB, not to mention...
I'm pretty confident that they are part of the consolidated tape feed that all the vendors get. Track Data has them - I think they get their feed...
http://www.amextrader.com/Trader/News/amexnotices/120401.stm As freehouse pointed out, you wouldn't want to try to send/change/cancel orders to...
Even a non-programmer can use one of the automated "if this dialog appears, then press this button" tools that are out there to do things...
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