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qwiktrade: makes sense to me... you know, i have never heard what the 'official' reason was for the new PDT rules, but have assumed it was heat created by media hyping of stories about innocent mothers ( i saw a story like this on tv) buying on the advice of ANALYSTS pre-bubble-burst... so...

FWIW: i just got Nextrend's free quotes a couple weeks ago and have been watching the NQ emini. So my experience with futures is very limited. In fact, only today did I try my first trade using only the 1 minute NQ as an indicator. I noticed that changes in direction of AMAT were...

Incredible!!! It wouldn't surprise me if they strike a compromise where ONLY independent traders would be prohibited from short selling. Let's face it, the > 25K independent traders will be the politically weakest group remaining after 9/28 when the <25K traders are gone. The way this...

I just realized that I omitted one obvious option from the list of choices on the poll: "get the Series 7 and trade with a prop firm like EchoTrade, et. al." I am unable to edit the poll, only Moderators can do this. If one of the Moderators would care to add this option to the poll it would...

This thread is getting confusing... tntneo: sounds like you are doing valuable research regarding the TWS freezing that many have experienced...please let us know what you are able to determine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Htrader: you...

Since <25K accounts will no longer be able to day trade after Sept 28, I was wondering what some of you are planning to do? As for me, I am weighing two primary options. 1) Obtaining necessary funds by selling my house. Sounds drastic I know. But it is currently my only cash source of...

most (not all) of the airlines are NYSE, i don't know if "BEST" is used for NYSE but i don't think so, so i will assume that we are talking NASD i only trade NASD and i use Best_ECN, which works OK for me, or i might use SOES if i see a MM on the inside (with limited luck, however) i...

My IB executions were fine today and yesterday. I have been at IB 4 months and have had only one day where the executions were slow. Pretty impressive. Even on that one day, there was a 'fresh' virus clogging up the internet which may have been the cause. I haven't noticed the 'freeze up'...

EST1'CM & NQT1'CM for December, for March, replace the T with C

My nasdaq orders with IB (Best_ECN routing) have been taking about 20 - 30 seconds to 'go live' today. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

i agree with michaelday and andrasnm: financial center(s) must become decentralized. i would extend that idea to political centers (ie Washington) compared to a couple jets - a nuke, chemical, or biological attack could cause much greater disruption. even in this particular case, the damage...

MGB, maybe it IS there, just no way to KNOW if someone wishes to believe, that's cool

I think an accurate analogy would be that if i saw a man standing in the middle of the street with one thumb up his butt while hitting himself in the head with a hammer...it may be prudent to decide not to attempt reasoning with him. BTW, I acknowledge jem to be the most articulate of his...

WET, totally agree, agnostic is the the most sensible approach anyone who claims that there DEFINITELY is or is not God is making an assertion for which there can be no proof why worry, not to mention kill/die, for something about which we can not remotely gain a reasonable clue...

Hitman, your posting of your thoughts on next week's market is appreciated - I have two questions: 1) do you think it will be important to avoid stocks with reasonably high with short interest ? (to minimize the possibility of being squeezed) 2) why only NYSE in your list?

jem, i think vvv, CaroKann, and Nick deserve a bit of a rest, so I would like to reply to some of your comments: jem: "It seems to me the "Nick" point of view is using a rhetorical trick frequently used by defense attorneys. The argument makes assumptions that are specious. (The root of...

dc441711, you wrote: "As an ex-personal injury attorney, I knew right away which companies would be hit the hardest. For example, Certain companies have multiple exposure (prop and casualty, business interuption, workers comp, reinsurance, aviation)..." Which companies are these? thanks...

BSAM: "We come here to share and learn about TRADING in the stock market; not to figure out what religion we are and/or to learn why we should hate each other. " On the contrary, one of the points, articulated in different ways by several posters in the thread I referred to, relates to...

zboy, Many of the posts, and some of the behaviour of posters, has certainly taken an unexpected divergence. This excellent site, after all, was intended as a forum for trading related topics. But the recent terrorist action is an unprecedented event, and most of us have never experienced...

Nick, awesome posts, the article by Bruce Shapiro is most articulate, and correct