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This is a constantly evolving world. Nasdaq more or less became a big version of Island once they bought them; since then, new entrants such as BATS and EDGE have been very influential. Both rates and market shares change almost monthly. A good resource for following the ECN landscape is...

If you want to know the commissions yourself, look up pricing for the "typical" brokers people would use for this type of trading (Interactive Brokers, Genesis, Assent, Lightspeed, etc.). To get good rates, you need to trade a certain amount per month. Keep in mind that the "simulator" may...

SicktraderII, Easiest way to answer this question, just ask one of your other aliases. The beauty of it is that you don't need to leave the room, or even speak the question out loud. :D

These commodities are no longer plunging; in fact, they have been soaring for the past 8 months. Copper has more than doubled since its mid-December lows. (I am not, however, going to speculate as to whether this is good, bad, or neither for the economy.) Not sure why you're quoting old...

Another site that publishes earnings news as it happens is: www.earningswhispers.com

Here is the Boomberg earnings calendar link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ecal But it is more or less the same thing as Zacks. You are right about the precise time not being reported. With regard to "Expected report dates", I think that a company can announce earnings anytime...

You may find bloomberg.com and zacks.com useful for this; they both have earnings calendar "feed" pages that are on the more consistent side. Just google or if you can't find them then let me know and I'll dig them up.

I think the average investor cares very much about 3% on a particular security. Why throw 3% away? HFT is no more a fad than Google is a fad. It serves a purpose by delivering greater market efficiency than the floor systems it replaced, and maybe it will be replaced by something even...

NxCore gives Nasdaq Level 2 over the Internet.

Unless something's changed recently, neither retail nor institution can enter orders on a book at these prices -- they are side-effects of various phenomena, the details of which I've long forgotten. It's all searchable via Google, if you want to take the time. (I wondered about such prints...

What solution(s) would you recommend over Xasax? I thought that Xasax was pretty generous for offering data for free through OpenTick (for as long as it lasted, that is), but other than that I know very little about them.

314, I like QuickFix, but does anyone disseminate quotes via regular FIX (which is pretty inefficient for large volumes of data)? Or are you speaking of FAST FIX? I think Spryware will disseminate quotes via FAST FIX, but as far as I know that's the only one, and I think that's quite an...

If you are looking for a wide data feed in the low-to-mid $1000's-ish pricing, NxCore is a nice system that runs great under Wine, which is a Windows API emulator. Other Windows data feeds also may run under Wine, or at the least VMWare. There are some higher-priced full feeds, such as...

Some firms that hire traders (with training and without requiring capital) include Goldman Sachs, JP Mogan, Morgan Stanley, and others in "investment banking" (or whatever they're calling it post-TARP); as well as countless hedge funds. Many of these firms recruit on campus at U of...

The practice of spamming search engines (especially Google) with supporting Web sites and paid blogs is staggering and widespread. This is also common with "forex robots" and various other "financial products". E.g., search a Forex robot-type product, and the first full page of Google's...

Not necessarily. You'd need to try it in reverse. And even then you wouldn't know for sure -- need to take into account that you're just curve-fitting ("lucky"), especially for this type of case.

You might consider whether it's worth it to try out a more "liquidity-adder friendly" brokerage such as Genesis, Assent, Lightspeed, Echo, Lime, etc.; or one of the institutional, agency-only ones (Wedbush, Neonet, Newedge, ITG, etc.) if you're an "institution".

Nasdaq Options may be more fair to non-MM participants, but I'm not sure as things seem to change frequently with the options markets these days. http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Micro.aspx?id=OptionsMarket

My info may be out of date, but I seem to recall that at least as recently as few months ago, neither NASDAQ nor ARCA charged cancel fees on US equity options orders, and NASDAQ Options took it even further by explicitly stating that any trader can make a two-sided market on their exchange on...

Very true. Part of the debate about "edge" stems from the fact that many people don't really understand what the term "edge" means. And that's OK, in a sense -- one can have an edge and trade profitably without knowing the true definition of "edge". But the traders who get tripped up are...