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Abattia thanks for researching this question. It appears that NYSE/AMEX have slightly changed their order fullfillment procedure. Now the quote setter is guaranteed 15% (unless his order is only 100 shares in which case the entire order is executed), rounded-up to an even lot, of a contra...

Exchanges are only a marketplace where buyers and sellers transact trades. They are not a market maker. There are firms/individuals that are designated as market makers by exchanges with an obligation to make an orderly market but the exchanges do not take a position on a trade.

The government is pumping money into the economy by buying U.S. Bonds to give the banks additional funds to loan. But businesses are not expanding and borrowing because of there being no demand for their products mainly due to consumers not having any discretionary funds or confidence in the...

The source of money supply is the principal determinant of whether it will cause inflation. Tax rebates and increased government spending will only provide a brief affect on the economy. To have substainable growth and increase spending, which will eventually led to inflation, the...

CPI is supposely a measure of CONSUMER prices and not an economy wide price of materials, etc.... The posting concerning prices at the grocery store is a valid example of consumer price inflation. I know the index has been changed to now it is no longer a true reflection of only consumer prices.

All one has to do is check with real consumers in the real world about the cost of living. Ask any retiree who has not received a cost of living increase for the past several years and will not get one this year if the cost of living has increased. The CPI has been manipulated to report what the...

William Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, gave an interview published in Tuesday's New York Times and denied that the goal was to push down the dollar or that inflation was a significant risk. And Dudley argued that the Fed's move -- which it began to signal in...

<i>businesses do have have the funds to spend </i> Should have read: <b>businesses do NOT have the funds to spend</b> Sorry about that.

It has been a long term monetary policy of the federal government during all Presidential terms to increase the money supply during a recession. This started mainly during the Great Depression era. The economic theory is that during a downturn in the economy, businesses do have have the funds...

The ink on your LLC agreement would not be dry until the CFTC would charge your group with collusion and trying to manipulate the market. They would require your group to register as a CPO if everyone is sharing the profits/losses. If each account is an individual account, someone would have to...

I would not agree that the most brilliant people in the room are not the regulators. The problem is that it is a revolving door from the regulators to the big Wall Street firms. There should be at least a five year moratorium placed on regulators being able to leave as a regulator and being...

Zumo advertises $2.14 RT for US Treasury futures

The NASSA is an organization for the state regulatory agencies that enforces the state's laws and regulations concerning the registration of securities and people such as brokers and advisors involved in the securites industry within their state. They are not a 'consumer' protection agency as...

You are right. Everything changes over time. No one is interested in the way things used to be years ago. I have not traded equities in about five years. Someone wrote that SPY trades in penny increments. I don't know. When I was trading on the ECNs retail customers could not place sub-penny...

Sorry, I am not the best authority on the current electronic markets. I am semi-retired and have been for about twenty years. I have traded some on the ECN's but I am not familiar with their operations. It is my understanding that the public cannot place sub-penny orders on the electronic...

The information I have presented concerning order placement was on the floor of an exchange. Whether one believes it or not has nothing to do with it being factual. My statement was if someone knew for certain the method of order fulfillment on electronic markets to share that information with...

I received an email recently concerning a new discussion board devoted exclusively to commodity futures and options on futures. I registered but they do not have many members yet. If any futures traders are interested you can visit their website at: http://www.blogplace.us It appears to be...

<b>Priority (time), Parity (ability to fulfill), and Precedence (size).</b> Order placement would be as follows: If there were three traders with the following orders on the book; Trader A has 300 shares to sell and he has time priority, Trader B has 500 shares for sale and trader C has 1000...

It is a known fact if you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out. But if you put him in a pot of cold water and turn up the heat slowly he will cook not realizing the temperature is increasing. Is that what is happening to the people?:eek: