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Laura Frieder and Jonathan Zittrain have analyzed pump n' dump spam activity in their paper 'Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity'. Unbelievably, it appears that spammers are able to achieve a 5% gain on pumped stock before dumping it, along with a dramatic...

You can access news via the TAL API for RealTick. You might want to review their site: https://toolkit.taltrade.com/

Sorry for the plug, but cleaning out the office before a move. TradeTheMarkets Professional Trader's Workshop 4 Day Live Chicago Seminar on set of 12 DVD's http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330076378576 ADXellence: Power Trend Strategies by Dr. Charles B. Schaap...

Many traders open a 5k futures account just for the platform and never trade through them. Depending on your needs, you could always find a used copy of 2000i and supply your own data feed.

For back-testing, get the fastest chip available and that you can afford. You will not regret it.

I wouldn't touch either chip company (INTC or AMD) right now. Price war is good for consumers but bad for stocks. Who can hold at longer during the price war will win in the end. My bets are on INTC.

Last time I used ETrade to place a trade in my IRA, I couldn't even place a stop loss. The bid/ask were at 0.00 but the last price was correct. Ouch!!!

Metastock is too closed for me. I moved past Metastock years ago. Try TradeStation. Metastock's UI and API need a serious upgrade but every version is simply the same ol' thing.

I have never had a problem contacting E*Trade. Just call the 800 number (I think 800-E-Trade-1 or something like that) IMHO: they are one of the best run online banks.

Both XM and SIRI are hurting financially. In SIRI's case, it went on a spending spree to increase subscriptions. From most of the numbers I see, http://www.orbitcast.com/, both companies have had subscriptions level off in the past few months. The future is either a merger or someway to...