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IB's selection of borrows has seemed rather limited compared to e*trade (which, while being a sucky broker, has amazing borrow availability most of the time). I know I have been unable to short ONIS and BLUE in the past, as well as some other stocks-du-jour; these are not NDX stocks, but not...

Hopefully http://www.hardrightedge.com/wizard/ss1.htm will answer part of your question. Basically, you're taking money from the stupid and the large. Large sums of money are rare, but stupidity is infinite.

See http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader/News/headtraderalerts/hta2001-34.stm for the NASDAQ rules. I would suspect that the NYSE rule is the same as the previous NYSE rule except with 0.01 replacing the 1/16th

targetman is a big huckster, beware. He was trying to get a bunch of people on #daytraders to join his "exclusive" service by sending them screenshots of his trading account balance. See http://www.daytraders.org and http://www.financialchat.com for two bigger free IRC channels. If you are...

Gene, the point of direct access trading is NOT having to talk to a broker to get a fill. If you want handholding every time you place an order, then you are probably wanting a full-service broker :) I have heard good things about MBTrading's customer service; you may want to look into them...

And what if it really is a Windows problem? :) WORKSFORME.

Whiner. The Java TWS is wonderful - no speed, stability, nor resource problems on a lowly K6 333mhz. I have spoken to people who have stability problems when they run it on Windows, but this was a Windows problem, not the fault of Java usage. I agree that the stuck quotes and missing/invalid...

RAY: FIX is an open protocol that is used for the networking of financial transactions and information - in English that means that orders and quotes can be sent between computers without the computers having to be running the same software or operated by the same company. FIX is only...

Just wanted to add a couple of comments/questions... 1. Thank you to IB for making the new Java interface. It seems that a bunch of nitpicking stickinthemudders want to complain, but the availability of the Java TWS, with its universal accessability, will make it finally possible to move my...

virnaem: FWIW, the IB TWS (both 3.0 and 4.0) use the FIX 4.1 protocol (with some proprietary fields added) via an Internet gateway. I would be interested in hearing of the results of your conversation with IB sales. I suspect they may try to sell you FIX over a frame relay connection, which...