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as far as scottrade, how easy is it to find shares to short of heavily shorted and/or unusual stocks? what's their inventory like?

with his charitable trust I think he does more longer term trading than when in his hedge fund. he sits on things for awhile. been sitting on Sears forever.

he trades in his Charitable Trust, which I think is about a 4million portfolio or so

I'm not sure but he mentioned his "stress index" which he designed to help find a bottom in the market. I am curious as to what he is using in this index. If anybody has a link to it let me know

anybody own one of those Amazon Kindle e-readers? Is it as good as reading print on paper? Or is there a lot of glare, your eyes get tired reading it, etc.

I know people like Jea Yu say just watch price action and forget about news for the most part, but in my opinion it's insane not to use the best newsfeed you can get. I'm trying to find the best one I get for a reasonable price but right now I'm just going with newsstrike.....anybody got a...

I think VMW is a good metaphor for the last 6 months or so. Got totally inflated to 125 on that ridiculous Oct. rally, and now back to close to where it opened on it IPO day. All the fat getting cut from the market

I think the futures selling off somewhat corresponds with the breaking news from Standard and Poor.

jayford, does IB have stop limit orders that you can use as legs of bracketed order, or just stop market orders? And in fast moving markets which do you use.....risk massive slippage with a stop market, or risk not getting filled at all on your stop limit?

Is anybody protecting their purchasing power by changing their dollars into other currencies, by say switching into euros or swiss francs? Of course it feels pretty late to be doing this now, when a lot of damage has already been done.

what's with the drop from 78 to 71? weak margins?

I stopped trading early today and wasn't listening to the news. Anybody's newsfeed pick up the FGIC downgrade, and if so, what was the timestamp on it? Dylan Ratigan is saying something about a downgrade about bond insurer FGIC that times real closely with the selloff. I'm wondering if...

looks like SPY crossed its 20 day SMA. i don't think it will hold

jayford, interesting play you did, can you tell me which broker you are using and what exact stops and limits you used on the bracketed orders?

how is Interactive Brokers as far as scalping a stock like BIDU? can afford for their to be stale quotes

look at SPY...anybody else getting stale quotes? or is a crossed bid and ask not uncommon on AMEX issues? this is ridiculous

incredibly frustrating during high volume when quotes lag....how can you scalp in these conditions when quotes from different brokers can differ as much as 30 cents....impossible to know which quotes are stale....

if there is only a mild selloff, would you recommend buying ATM or ITM puts?

In a pinch you can use CNBC as a last resort depending upon how fast you need to hear the statement. I heard cnbc has a 7 second delay in some geographical areas.

No it's not bad. But when people say "react, don't predict" I am trying to understand the nuances of exactly what they are saying. It seems to me that reacting and predicting are more similar than the statement implies.