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In the past, I have excluded fills on the Amex by doing this: Configure => Global Configuration => Smart Routing => Excluded Exchanges Then enter symbol, security type (e.g., STK), and route.

He was long ATM GOOG calls at expiration. I bet policies have changed in the past couple years. Cautionary tale: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51251&perpage=6&pagenumber=1

Amex does not accept odd lot orders, according to IB's TWS. Maybe things will change when/if the NYSE buys them.

illiquid, its functioning normally here.

China Stocks Fall From Record After Transaction Tax Tripled By Zhang Shidong and Alexander Ragir May 30 (Bloomberg) -- China's stocks dropped from a record after the government tripled the tax on securities transactions, halting a rally that's made the shares Asia's most expensive...

continued.... ``There was hubris involved in 1997,'' Zaidi says of Niederhoffer. ``He's definitely learned his lesson.'' Since then, Matador's assets have ballooned. The fund charges an annual management fee equal to 2.5 percent of its assets and takes a 22 percent cut of any profit. In...

continued.... From Harvard, Niederhoffer headed west, first to the University of Chicago, where he collected his doctorate in 1969, and then on to the University of California, Berkeley, where he became an assistant professor of finance. He didn't stay in academia for long. While teaching...

continued..... A collector of 19th- and 20th-century American folk art, Niederhoffer has filled his home with 2,500 paintings, sculptures and carvings. Among them are pictures he has commissioned of people and places that have shaped his life: his father, Artie Niederhoffer, a policeman who...

Colorful Bloomberg article from 2006: Niederhoffer, Humbled by '97 Blowup, Posts 56 Percent Return By Deepak Gopinath May 31 (Bloomberg) -- One evening in April, Victor Niederhoffer went to a party at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. Niederhoffer, 62, used to be one of the most...

Some use software from SS&C (now owned by Carlyle Group): http://www.ssctech.com/ Since I have never been on that side of the business, I happily know nothing about it, except that it is widely used in the US, and globally.

copied and pasted from http://www.unitedstatesoilfund.com/ Wednesday, April 04, 2007 USO Data Ticker USO CUSIP 91232N 10 8 ISIN US91232N1081 AMEX Closing Price $52.33 NAV $52.38 Shares Outstanding 15,600,000

For stocks, you must enter every transaction. See page D-6 of the Instructions for Schedule D: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040sd.pdf “You must enter the details of each transaction on a separate line of Schedule D. If you have more than five transactions to report on line 1 or line...

Me too. The only stock I could find in a minute of searching that was shortable was QQQQ. Many. many stocks not shortable.

NYSE closed today for Washington's Birthday (see below). "2007 NYSE Holidays New Year's Day January 1 National Day of Mourning * January 2* Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 15 Washington's Birthday** February 19** (observed) Good Friday...

It seems to me that you do not need to be registered at the Federal (SEC) or state level, since you are not managing money "for compensation". (I think all states include the "for compensation" clause, but check with a laywer.) An example from the State of Connecticut web site: "WHO MUST...