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Anyone? Did I just dream this up or did I actually hear this? I could not find anyhting on Nasdaq trader but figured the well informed traders here could help me out . Any info. would be appreciated.

Does anyone know what these are and when they take affect? I am referring to the reports I have heard that the Nasdaq will be lowering the cost to trade on Supermontage, I am assuming this means lower fees for SUMO orders or charges when taking liquidity using SIZE. Anyone?

How expensive were the shares you were trading? The # of shares you traded is only half the equation. It is the value per share times the # of shares that you need to know. And you only pay the Tax on the way out (sales). Hence, 100,000 shares traded of $100 stock = 100,000 / 2 = 50,000...

I have traded Nasdaq listed equities for a few years using the squawk (predominately realtimefutures.com) and I find it is a very useful tool. I have no difficulties following Benny but admittedly I spent a great deal of time in an auction environment in my former life. I can basically tell the...

Gentlemen, thank you for your responses. It certainly appears to be a complicated process. The issue of the currency exchange is actually what gave rise to initiating this thread.

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I am curious to know how one goes about trading equities inter-market. If I want to buy a shares on one exchange and sell them into another what are the barriers to doing so, is there a special clearing arrangement that would facilitate this? That is to say if I purchased shares of say RIMM on...

Someone out there must have a suggestion, or at least I would like to hear other experiences with a similar problem.

This is a question for all you techies out there! The firm I am at has recently been experiencing problems with bursting quotes at times of peak market volume. For example, on the open when volume is very heavy the traders in the office will get sporadic momentary freezing of their level II...

Interesting strategy Spread! But may I ask why you trade without charts? Is it too add some challenge to the otherwise laughably easy job of trading the markets for a living:D :D But seriously, do you have a particular reason for no using charts? I scalp high volume Naz stocks using mostly...

I guess everyone should find out for themselves. Everything has its tradeoffs and every person has their own personal threshold for what they would be willing to do to achieve a desired end. Obviously enduring the situation at Swift is acceptable for some or they would have no traders. I...