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    SCMagic gone, trojan'd?

    FWIW, both the initial page with the jscript hack and the exe that you eventually download will alert on various antivirus programs (using virustotal.com), but not ZoneAlarm, which uses CA's AV platform.
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    SCMagic gone, trojan'd?

    WARNING: Sites mentioned in this post are potentially dangerous. Do not go to them if you're not prepared to handle the consequences Cleaning up some old bookmarks, I attempted to go to "www . scmagic . com", which used to have stuff related to converting to/from Sierra Charts files. This...
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    Do some brokers sell you 1 option contract at a time to run up commissions?

    Of course it can matter where the orders are routed. PACX used to be the worst for these odd-lot fills, while CBOE never did. At the time, there were better incentives for some brokers to route to PACX as I recall. Also, it seemed to be when I improved the market to the NBBO on PACX, since there...
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    Do some brokers sell you 1 option contract at a time to run up commissions?

    Quote from Option Trader: As an alternative, maybe it's not the broker, but MM's or specialists selling options who can identify you as a retail client of whatever brokerage, and want you to "give up" your place in line. MMs rarely will hit/take a retail order that is resting on the...
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    Poll: Do Chit Chat, Politics/Religion, and the like belong on ET?

    I would buy that argument if there were such a thing as a single-site browser, which disallowed people from going to (the thousands of) other sites for their chitchat needs. AFAIK, nobody has a browser that is restricted in this way. I would also buy it if we were dealing with raising...
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    Excel

    Quote from Moreagr: I would like to auto calculate over 400 tickers with at least 20 data cells for each ticker real time.. which language or software plug -ins could be suitable for this? could VB6 with excel handle this or would i need a more powerful language like C++... to handle all...
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    java using 200 MB of memory with only tws

    It's really not huge in the current environment of bloated libraries and the nature of Windows' memory model. This isn't the place for, and I'm not qualified to explain, the nature of this model. Sun and ORA do a decent job of explaining the Java memory model, and many publishers, including...
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    Where do you trade?

    Wow - lots of "Others". Guess I missed someone important. Perhaps those that voted Other could post with the names of their brokers. Just the names please - I don't want to get banned for encouraging advertising :(
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    Curse of the renegade trade

    In trading, a "confirmed cancel" is generally considered to be stronger than any other type of order status, even a fill. If they gave you an out, and refuse to honor it, don't let them get away with it. File a complaint with CFTC if you have to.
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    Regular hours limit orders on IB that will participate in the opening cross

    Glad you got something fixed. Do you ever actually get a fill on the ECNs pre-market? If so, is it favorable (i.e. do you wish you had waited for the AMEX open)? If not, why not skip SMART altogether and route to AMEX directly?
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    hey NYSE!!!!

    Quote from Steelhead: tell me how you like ... ARCA 24 ISLD 22 BRUT 18 NYS 20 all day long? What does this mean?
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    Where do you trade?

    Haven't had one of these in a while, so... With which retail broker do you do the bulk of your trading? Retail (i.e. non-proprietary) traders only please. Sorry - not enough room for futures-focused/-only firms.
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    Poll: Do Chit Chat, Politics/Religion, and the like belong on ET?

    Do you want Chit Chat, Politics/Religion, and similar forums on ET?
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