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    IB Is VERY Slow Cashing Checks...

    OK, so why are cashier's checks from credit unions treated like personal checks, rather than cashier's checks from a regular bank?
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    price improvement

    A NYSE newbie question from a mostly NASDAQ guy. How exactly does this happen? Since I've started trading NYSE stocks, I probably get improvement about 1/2 the time. Is it because the quotes are lagging the actual market? Why on earth would the specialist fill me a couple of cents below the...
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    IB / firewall problems

    thanks. I had seen the other threads, but was hoping there was a shortcut.
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    IB / firewall problems

    I've noticed on several threads that IB TWS seems to have problems with the typical corporate firewall. Do both the browser and standalone versions have this problem?
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    Manipulator defined?

    I think we're all asking/answering the wrong questions here. Rather than asking whether manipulators exist (by the definition of "someone who, at least temporarily, attempts to move a market", I would say they do) and if they are bad (my opinion is that they are neither good or bad, they just...
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    I need career advice. Degree in Computer Enginerring?

    At the company I work for, they took outsourcing to a new level when we needed to send an engineer to our Taiwan design center. Given the choice between sending an American engineer or hiring a Taiwanese national, they chose option C - hire someone from India and send them to Taiwan. I think...
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    Ameritrade Freetrade.com 2 years so far : Current users please respond.

    I've been using Freetrade for about 6 months now and am happy with it. I trade 1-2 times/day, only liquid nasdaq (almost exclusively AMAT), and almost always market orders. I almost always get filled at the inside in about 1-2 seconds. Worst fill was 35 seconds and that only happened once...
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