Recent content by bawr

Apparently they do. Vanguard customer orders are routed to Citadel, VIRTU (Knight), G1 (Susquehanna) , UBS, Citigroup, etc. You can look up SEC Rule 606 reports for Vanguard and other brokers here: https://vrs.vista-one-solutions.com/sec606rule.aspx

Not true. Fidelity and Schwab will wire to third parties.

I read about it on Slashdot in 2010, downloaded the software, and mined a little bit on an old laptop.

Can't log into TWS. The account management web site and WebTrader work.

I have been running TWS with the latest Java 8 on El Capitan without any issues.

The so called private banks already get to impose on tax payers when they have losses. I don't see why the idea of a bank operated by USPS so controversial. Apparently the US had a post bank between 1911 and 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system

This is false.

I am not sure comparably equipped Macs are always more expensive: 15" MacBook Pro Specifications 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz 16GB 1600MHz memory 512GB PCIe-based flash storage 1 Intel Iris Pro Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB GDDR5 memory Built-in battery...

He is not as wrong as you think. In old English, "learn" can mean to teach. Compare with the modern German "lehren", which also means to teach.

TWS 946.2h Java 1.8.0_11 x86_64 Mac OS X 10.9.4 Memory used: 467 MB

The Iranians did not produce the video to promote Islam. If anything, the video was an act of rebellion against Iran's Islamic rulers. We don't even know if the Iranians in question are Moslem. The videos made by British or other Moslems mentioned in the article have nothing to do with the...

pepper_john, What is your definition of an open system?

If you are serious about trading, you shouldn't be afraid of learning new things, including figuring out how to do a simple thing in Linux.

Your aunt's Intel based Mac can be upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 in order to run the latest version of Flash Player. There would be no need to buy new hardware, as you claimed earlier in the thread. We are discussing Macs, not iPhones, but there isn't a smartphone maker that supports the latest...

This allegedly restrictive EULA hasn't prevented me from compiling and running all the open source software I want on my Mac, just as one would on any Linux or other UNIX-like system. Regarding price, if you configure a PC with similar specs to a high end Mac, you will find that the PC is...