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On IB and to my knowledge, there is no way of seeing your total commissions broken down by "ib commission", "ECN" and "add/remove liquidity"...until that happens, how can anyone really be sure whether IB is charging them correctly? For those who have seen the Genesis statements/blotters, IB has...

I have unbundled selected but i can choose the ECN to route to...HoundDogOne, are you sure you are limited to SMART routing just because you chose unbundled? I've started noticing these IDEAL fills on NASDAQ stocks in my case. Commission does appear to be higher for these fills but it's...

Has anyone switched to BATS as a result of the January prices? I was tempted but am not sure how often ill be getting filled when adding liquidity and whether BATS can route out to all exchanges. Also, how is BATS in terms of routing out when taking liquidity...will it route out to all ECNs...

If good news comes out on a stock intraday and i immediately buy 1000 shares at market, would i be increasing or decreasing efficiency?

Effective January 1, 2007, NASDAQ introduced a single, unified pricing schedule for all equity securities. In addition, effective February 1, 2007, NASDAQ plans to adjust tiers for the unified pricing schedule...

HoundDogOne, let us know your experience if you go through with the purchase... HispaTrader, I have been looking into the Dlink LB604 which seems to be one of the cheapest dual Wan models out there...the negative reviews i read talked about a "Upnp" issue which causes frequent router reboots...

Its not a matter of being surprised...the question was more like "if a firm is making $5000 in commissions per month from you, why would they steal your $5000 deposit and cut off that income stream, and jeopardize other similar commissions income streams from other traders..."

Agreed...thats good advice...

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Here's something I don't understand about shorting...MAMA has gone up so much on such huge volume in the last couple of weeks, so that means that a lot of people have bought the stock and are holding it...now why isn't there so many more shares available to borrow now that brokerages have so...

I find Yahoo Finance and Nasdaq.com opening prices to be the same...In the ACOR example you gave, they are matching (today's open was 15.7 on both)...im using this link from yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=acor Can you post a specific example with numbers where yahoo and nasdaq.com are...

ok, lets define "outage" as something that lasts more than 10 minutes...how many per year on average?

can any longtime and frequent users of IB comment on how often this system has gone down in the past per year on average?

"In addition, because of the proposal to remove all current price test restrictions, and prohibit any price test by any SRO, the SEC is proposing to amend Rule 200(g) of Regulation SHO to remove the requirement that a broker-dealer mark a sell order of an equity security as "short exempt" if the...

Dark book or dark pools refers to "non-displayed liquidity resident inside certain brokerage houses." Search for all instances of the phrase "dark pools" in this article: http://www.tradersmagazine.com/column.cfm?id=280&year=2006&src=home

Good luck trying to unglue yourself from the screen...what about overnight risk?

I thought that when BRUT and Island are merged that the levels would actually be thicker if anything... Also, what do you mean by "the MM is more dirty"?

Although the decision to reduce the SEC fees was taken earlier this year, the reduction is not yet effective, according to these links: http://www.nasd.com/RulesRegulation/MemberAlerts/2006MemberAlerts/index.htm http://www.nasd.com/RulesRegulation/MemberAlerts/2006MemberAlerts/NASDW_018082

traderpro: Thanks for the update. Although the decision to reduce the SEC fees was taken earlier this year, the reduction is not yet effective, according to these links: http://www.nasd.com/RulesRegulation/MemberAlerts/2006MemberAlerts/index.htm...

Ok, i see what you're saying...I have no connection to Questrade. I was just making a general point equally applicable to Questrade or any other firm.