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The rule has been that for the specialist to clean up the book he has to give any traders with orders in the market that same print. I haven't seen anything so far saying this is going to change with all of the above threads. In fact the example a few posts above with WMT seems to say it...

I've always likes www.Stockcharts.com for the charts/services they have.

might as well just send a check of the commissions to your broker instead

Just for clarification SDS is the stock symbol and they spell it Sungard Here is a Yahoo link for them. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=sds&d=t

black box = a fully automated system grey box = a half automated system (entry or exit is automated)

I don't use them so I don't find them useful somebody else may though But they can be used to track a market maker /specialist to see how they are trading in comparison with how the stock is moving.

any firm that clears through Andover. The fee's vary with volume and if training is needed

Just call Hammer's tech support to talk with Omar. He will go into great detail about it

how about ...and Hammer has openbook and it can also be linked with Realtick

Prop traders don't account for individual trades it's one of our edges. The form is a K-1 though not a 1099

I don't trade ETFs usually and Andover's Hammer marks shorts/sells automatically as it is already built into the software. I heard one of the head guys in risk control at another firm I know a little bit about was calling new traders telling them when they were trading the QQQ's or...

let's see #1 yes #2 yes #3 yes hope that helps.

Problem is it's usually easy to get in and out of 500 shares. The liquidity to get out of 5000 shares isn't always available in a lot of stocks at certain levels.

Open book is available through many different vendors http://nysedata.com/OpenBook/ see above link for more info The data has been available for over a year now. Neither market orders stops, nor is what the crowd near the specialist post is doing are available. Open Book is 10...

actually wouldn't stop him That Atlanta shooter had over $200,000 originally

Bullets are just long stock and a very deep in the money put with a one day expiration that is written by the bullet firm is what I've been informed. Both versions would work....but option floor traders usually hedge shorts positions with deep in the money puts not long put and short...

Give parts of the US 20 more years and that might soon be a reality. There are a few communities that are now getting part of their water from the ocean by filtering out the salt. (I've been watching the Discovery channel :D )

How am I supposed to vote if I drink filtered "main" water at home but nice bottled spring water in the office?

I'd suggest a third party for quotes. I'm not an IB user so don't quote me but I remember hearing that the quotes are snapshots taken evey 1/2 second or something like that...