Recent content by GHansen

No. It doesn't have anywhere near the filtering capability of First Alert.

Assuming your numbers are correct (or close), you did nothing wrong and everything right. Somebody has to hold this guy accountable. This opening-only BS is fools gold. The specialists know people play this game. That and the fact that everyone and their dog are playing this idiotic...

Miami is at 1/2 cent according to a person I know that trades from that office. In response to competition, Bright has been closing offices (or considering closing offices) and cutting their rates quite a bit. Their main problem though, like 9 out of 10 firms in the industry, is antiquaited...

Nitro, You're way off base here. Pennies and pennying discourage the placement of limit orders. Without limit orders there is less transparency, less liquidity, trading inefficiency, and more needless volatility. That's the point Wheeler is making--and he's right on the money.

Looks like the NYSE may becoming more ECN-like after all. www.traderbulletin.com reports that the NYSE is moving to automatic quoting. Not sure if this means automatic cancels too. Hope so!

Your argument and analogy are flawed. --> The stock market is a thousand times more efficient than a blackjack table. The trader's edge is declining while the players edge has been constant for years. --> The upside of a good strategy is far greater in the limitless potential of the...

Hyperfeed is an outstanding data feed and within 70 ms of any NDQS direct feed I've ever seen. Perhaps EchoTrade (Pax) has overtaxed servers or poor connectivity. I too have heard many complaints of slowness and other data problems with Sterling from EchoTraders, so it is a possibility.

Do you really think that occasional price improvement offsets all the times that the specialist jacks you? Is there a way you trade that maximizes your chances of price improvement? If so, how do you do it?

The only problem is that tightass exchanges like the CHX don't allow professional traders to use their auto-ex system.

My understanding is that most people see SIZE as an aggregate of all orders at a specific price. Is there a way (by subscribing to Totalview for example) where you can view every single order at the same price?

Hmmm. I saw this at www.traderbulletin.com and that URL seems to work okay. Maybe I typed in the URL code wrong or something. On another note, I heard Schoenfeld didn't buy Heartland, but instead simply took some of their traders.

Supposedly Heartland declared bankruptcy. Can any Heartland traders confirm this? Saw the story on http://www.traderbulletin.com Guess the Watcher software co. may be for sale...not that anyone would want to buy it. G.

ETG recently left Speer Leeds to switch to Instinet clearing. I've heard that, overall, ETG's traders dislike Instinet's Gr8Trade (portal) software. Are there any ETGers here that can compare the two patforms?