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Same as longs - overnight. If ex-date is the 27th, and you are short overnight on the 26th into the morning of the 27th (i.e. short as of the end of trade date 26th), you owe the dividend. For US equities, the latest public ECN closing time (BRUT, INET, ARCA) is 20:00 ET. There may be...

There are situations where it can happen accidentally, like overfills.

I would first guess that it has something to do with not having sufficient funds to take a position in the underlying. Could also be a communication issue, based on the OP's apparent inability to accurately describe the exact scenario here.

Quote from twinx: No, i think this is not true. I dont know about the economic proposition of book-business, but why should there not enough audience to make "Programming for Traders" succesful? You answered your own question. Shop your idea around to "real" publishers (like ORA, MHP, etc.)...

Quote from twinx: Can someone do a view simple words more about "wash sale" concerning tax? See Publication 550 at www.irs.gov . It includes examples.

Personally, it's a moral issue. I don't trade inside info because it's bad for markets in general. I've occasionally had to stop someone from trying to give me such info because it effectively keeps me from being able to trade the stock. AFAIR from the IMCL/MS debacle, being the tip-ee and...

Last I remember, "kickbacks" from the option exchanges (called "mandatory marketing agreements" or some such) are legal - even required. It's amazing how the SEC can focus on relatively minor compliance issues, yet still bless the incredibly anti-competitive rules regarding retail orders...

It probably means that your order is being sent to ARCA with the "PNP" flag set, which prevents ARCA from routing away to other markets to execute your marketable order, and ARCA is not currently at the inside. You need to either turn off that flag somehow, use the platform's "smart" routing (if...

No, I haven't. I've had some input by people with experience in some of those markets. Google for +country_name +"stock exchange" (or other synonyms for it), go to the exchange website where there is usually a list of brokers, contact/visit the website of the brokers. And don't forget to...

Quote from trada101: Can you direct me to a commercial Java application that represents a good implementation? I just want to see if it for myself. TWS (other than the charts, which are acknowledged to be resource hogs - they were not written by IB). Hard to know what you mean by "good".

Stocks, not Forex. It's unlikely that this would make any difference in short availability unless you know that all the other holders of the shares are also holding their positions in this way. I've been a trader in some very small stocks, being on the other side of the majority of trades on...

Quote from kalzayani: www.Hquotes.com I think From the website: "There are no monthly charges for the data as you download it directly from free Internet sources like Quote.com and Yahoo.com" Since when do Quote.com and Yahoo.com provide intra-day bid/ask data (let alone for free)?

Quote from qazmax: ...but I doubt Zimbabwe has a stock exchange. http://www.zse.co.zw/ :) Actually, many developing countries have stock exchanges, albeit with very short trading days, very few listed companies, small total cap, etc. Some are really nothing more than a couple...

6 pages, mostly on basic math and detail reading? Can we set up a poll with SAT questions? I'm betting the under. As Dustin points out, an average is worthless unless you restrict the question to a particular type of strategy. One of my strategies has averaged about 50cps long-term, but I've...

Tools->SetAlarm suggestions: 1. Make the comparisons >= and <= instead of > and <. It's more intuitive to spec the price that you want to be alerted at instead of a tick above or below. 2. Have a "set percentage" feature to quickly set the trigger values around a price. Add to the "set...

I think your info gets released to whoever handles proxy mailings (ADP?) if you hold shares into the ex-date for the share voting rights. I seem to recall seeing, in other brokerages' account applications, a box that one could check to prevent revealing one's information to issuers. Perhaps...

That makes one of you :(

Or do you have the auto-sync turned on? Last time I checked, Microsoft's auto-sync didn't sync correctly, causing the time to be off by some number of seconds because it didn't bother setting the seconds - only the minutes. I use the code from NIST personally.

Quote from IBj: There really isnt any available at IB (6 shares only). OIH went back on the RegSHO fail list about 10 days ago I think.

Not exactly "trading" on the ECNs - there was all of 700 shares printed 09:15-09:30 and another 1200 during the 09:30 minute before the AMEX open on 24,200 shares (and another 7K or so printed on the third market). Was there anywhere near that size available on the ECNs within $1 of those 101.4x...