Recent content by stevebec

The preferred source for solar cells is wafers that failed the QC from the semiconductor industry. Once demand exceeds that supply, you have to use non-rejected wafers, which are considerably more expensive. I saw an article a couple of months ago in EE Times about an European company...

We've had good luck using http://www.callingcards.com when calling the in-laws.

I'll third the do not call list. I signed up for the Texas version a couple of years ago, and despite loopholes big enough to drive a truck through, the number of calls went to nearly zero. I added the fed list on for good measure and can't remember the last telemarketer call I got. I have...

For interrupt sharing, it doesn't matter what busses the slots are on, only how many slots the board has and how many inputs the I/O APIC has. The AMD 8111 south bridge has 4 inputs, so with 4 slots, you shouldn't be sharing any (assuming no multi-function cards, which is unlikely). Depending...

One thing I have noticed is that "day only" stop orders that are open at the close are stuck open for a good 20-30 minutes after the close. I've never had one actually triggered and filled, but I can't cancel it and trade afterhours until it finally expires. Ameritrade, like most discount...

Do you mean hours literally, or just a long time. I trade through Freetrade (Ameritrade on the cheap), and listed orders have usually taken longer to cancel than OTC, which cancel almost instantly, but the lag is more like 15-30 seconds which I always figured was just the specialist having his...

My guess is that this has little to nothing to do with the Patriot Act or an Arabic surname, and everything to do with longstanding US trade sanctions against Iran and a couple of CS reps who don't quite understand the regs or their company's policies. You would probably have the same problems...

While you're at it, check out (slightly) larger Tuvalu's domain at http://www.tv . Buy a domain name and help build a new road to my in-law's house. Besides, Tuvalu has more interesting stamps. :^).

I've been trading with them for about a year and have been quite happy with them. They obviously sell their order flow, but I watch my orders on level 2 and I always get filled at the inside, and almost always within a second or two. I average about 100-125 tickets/month and have only gotten 3...

If you don't need direct access, it doesn't get any cheaper than this: http://www.freetrade.com .

Back on topic again - TWS does not work with #3 unless you can bribe your IM people to turn on the port you need. There is a way around this using Loophole and SocksCap which basically converts it into a http request. The exact setup is described in a post from about a year ago or so. You...

pspr, The oath may not have changed, but the State Department's position on dual-nationality has. Before it was basically a don't ask - don't tell policy, but State now recognizes that people may owe allegience to other countrys in addition to the US...

Unfortunately, it does now. The wife of a friend of mine just got hers a couple of months ago. Citizenship used to mean an allegiance to a country. Now apparently, it is just a synonym for "address" or "work permit".

The only case where I would consider getting an outside loan to trade would be to pad an account up to 25K to satisfy the PDT requrirement, and only if you have the discipline to not trade the borrowed portion of the account.

1. yes 2. no That said, I've been very happy with them. I watch my orders on level 2, and out of about 1000 RT trades, I've gotten what I considered bad fills 3 times and in each case I emailed them an annotated copy of the tape and they fixed the price to where it should have been...