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Yes airspeed, Crucial sells good stuff-I buy most of mine from them. There is also Viking and Kingston plus several others that are worth looking into. The problem is you will find lots of Sunday newspaper adds and internet adds with "blowout" memory sales. When you ask the reps who the...

janko Buying generic memory is like buying a "Rolex" watch from a street vendor. It may work-it may not. Memory is so cheap right now that you are better off buying from a reputable manufacturer.

Every trader who goes short knows that he is responsible to pay the dividends due if he happens to hold a short position through the dividend date. However here is another quirk of short trading which most traders may not be aware of- Consider the following trades I made back in August of 2000...

Sniper-Trader1 is right about one thing-"God help you if the system goes down" and you are trying to cover a short postion. The telephone won't do you much good. I'd like to hear other's comments about this problem with other brokers. I know Datek isn't any better.

Hitman- check out http://www.investertech.com There "easy select" site should do what you want. It used to be free, but I think there is a charge now of $180/year. They also have great java charts.

Sniper_Trader1 Actually, this quote belongs to Rogan LaBier. It was originally posted word for word on his tools-of-the-trade website. You force me to reply- the "original quote" is from Ken Calhoun's Trading the Open chat room as stated by him and printed by him on Oct 23,2000 at...

In that case you're probably applying a scalping style too stocks that are too illiquid to be suited forit from an execution risk perspective. I don't see the connection here between liquidity and whether an ECN is going to be nearby on a sudden change in market direction. When you have to...

...the NASDAQ route is definitely not a good idea to use in fast market conditions. Your best bet in a fast market is BEST_ECN or routing directly to an individual ECN. And that ladies and gentlemen is the nub of the problem, and why we are having all this interesting discussion. What do you...

From dlincke: As far as I know one of IB's guiding principles has always been to provide their customers with a platform that facilitates the fastest and best execution possible. I'm not sure if limiting customers in their choice of the type of order routing they deem...

spike.usa Quotetracker receives data for the charts from Datek's streamer in real time. So if you start at say 8:00 AM, you get real time chart action starting at 8:00. If you start at 1:00 PM then your chart data starts at 1:00 PM. There is no backfill from DATEK. So if you need the earlier...

spike.usa DATEK doesn't, but this is not a problem since quotetracker gets the DATEK feed, you can open as many LEVEL II screens as you want in quotetracker.

I keep a small account($5K) at DATEK and use there level II quotes accessed through Medved's quotetracker. Cost for the level II is $10/month. Cost for the quotetracker charts, free.

For those of you interested in multi-monitor displays-there is a web site devoted to this topic with a database of known configurations that work or don't work. Check it out. http://www.realtimesoft.com/ I use a three monitor system for daytrading with three separate video cards under...

Well-if Def is listening-perhaps he can nudge the powers that be at IB to provide us with details of the order routing logic for BEST and BEST-ECN.

there seems to be again a whole lot of confusion within IB as to what their order routing actually does Indeed-when you don't know what's in the black box you're at their mercy. They can tell you anything they want to tell you and you won't know if it is right or wrong. No Broker wants to...

Sniper_Trader1- As far as I know we(that is IB traders) don't have access to ARCA NOW orders through TWS. As a follow up to the BEST-ECN transaction which had an ARCA leg that took 17 Minutes to fill on the sell side, I should point out that I tried to cancel the ARCA trade about 5 seconds...

Here's the reference to the SIPC horror story at SiliconInvestor.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15846119 After I read this article, I started looking around for private insurance. So far haven't found any. If anyone out there has had any luck with this, please...

fleance- Could be The above order was indeed a market order.

dlincke- you state this theory: Why shouldn't it hit ARCA? When BEST_ECN hits ARCA or any other ECN with proactive capabilities it sends an IOC order so ARCA's proactive order handling algorithm is never invoked. If by the time the order hits ARCA there's...

I have an account with DATEK. They provide Level II for $10.00/month. I also use quotetracker.com for real time charts which uses the DATEK feed(or any other feed you like). It's free. It has a complete set of technicals to plot as well as Fib retracement. So my total cost for LEVEL II and real...