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I was able to short ESCL on Tuesday, but on Wednesday none of my brokers had shorts available. I looked at the short list for Genesis, and they had it listed as available. If you could short it on Wednesday, what broker do you use?

Yes. It was a couple of years ago, but I have a notation that their smart order execution didn't work very well. Maybe they're better now?

I've been trading for 7 years. I've been through probably 20 different direct access firms. I cannot find one, (with the exception of IB, which I find difficult to trade with) that does a good job routing orders intelligently. You place a smart buy order at 20.00, where BRUT is sitting on the...

Yeah, it's the Russian chick. Of course, the counterargument that supporters of the paranormal use is that 'debunkers' like Randi set it up so that it's impossible to pass their tests.

There was a show about a girl who claimed to have 'xray eyes' and diagnose a patient just by looking at them. Csicop did a test with 7 subjects, each with a particular ailment; she had to match each subject with a list of 7 ailments she was given. Csicop said that if she got 5 of 7 correct...

Suppoose someone has a reserve bid at 10.00, and is showing only 1000 shares at a time. I then place a bid at the same price, same venue. Once his order for 1000 shares is filled, does my order jump ahead of his?

They never give a heads-up when a listed stock is going to resume trading, correct? It just starts trading at some point, as far as I can tell.

I wish that were true. The best bid order was not 25.46. There was no fill. My order was not rerouted. On the previous order I mentioned, I placed an order to sell at the best bid price. Instead of filling at that price, CyberXchange added 6 cents to my sell order. I didn't get filled, and I...

I just found out that CyberTrader sometimes will change the limit price of your order. For example, here is the transcript of one of my trades from today New smart order: short 1000 shares of SFNT at 25.45 on CyberX New order: short 1000 shares of SFNT at 25.46 from BRUT I placed the sell...

Hard to see the keys. What exactly do they do?

I've tried all 3 (Smart, CyberXchange, ARCA). None of them do the trick.

As far as I can tell, CyberXchange (CyberTrader's smart order routing algorithm) NEVER routes to BRUT. If BRUT is on the inside ask and you place a CyberXchange order at that price, your order will be placed as an INET bid locking at the same price, rather than execute against BRUT. I've tried...

This is kind of hard to explain...sometimes when I have several applications already running, I will open a new browser window. All my monitors start flickering. I will get altered images on my screens (displayed softare will be resized, or show up on a different monitor, or partially/completely...

Is this Swiftrade? Aren't they for Canadian traders?

Thanks, I think that's what I'm looking for. This does look hard to navigate through. Any tips?

What I'm asking is, how do you know the order was received correctly on their end? That's where the audit trail starts. Is there any way to verify the order that you placed, before it got to them?

Is there any way to prove that you didn't place an order through IB? For example, let's say you place a limit order to buy at 10.00, and you get filled at 10.20. You call IB, and they tell you that you placed the order to buy at 10.20. Aside from recording your screen during trading, it seems...

Is there a clear winner between these platforms? There were some discussions a while back, but it's been a few years, so I wonder if anything has changed. I remember that Baron had something on this site a while back showing that 2000 was the best platform, but I believe that was before the...

There IS a price break on the annual plan for existing subscribers. I just couldn't find it on their website.

I've had the same problem. But some of the other guys on this thread told me that they were hearing stuff on days I wasn't. Not sure what to make of this. It has been solid this week.