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You should consider buying one of these tax guides: http://www.greencompany.com/Traders/Guides.shtml I am not affiliated with this company. I used their Bronze Package and it saved me many hours of frustration in terms of declaring and using mark-to-market status.

I highly doubt TurboTax has this capability. It certainly didn't two years ago.

I am not an expert, but I have two guesses. A bad quote perhaps? Or an iceberg order that always shows 1,100 shares?

1 min bars. Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Continuous Contract Close. No Bid/Ask. No tick data.

Are you sure there is a 9:25 est cutoff time? This doesn't jive with what I see. Where is this written?

Maybe set a new account up at a new brokerage and get used to it before transferring any money. Then transfer half so you can still trade at E*Trade with half the money. Wait for it to arrive. Then trade half at the new brokerage while you transfer the rest from E*Trade. Something like that?

Use a broker that allows you to trade futures on Sunday evening, like IB. You will see the current futures quotes for ES, NQ, etc. You can't trade any stock then, just futures.

Of course not. I believe IB has filed many protests to the SEC about this very issue. If IB has no impact on the SEC and options exchanges, then certainly you won't do diddly.

You should be complaining to the options exchanges. It is their moronic rule because they can't compete on a level playing field.

Brilliant!

I guess what I'm saying is that before, lots of people just didn't sell at all. Now, all those people might have learned to sell if the price goes below a certain point. If there is a turn downward in the market, the down move might come a lot swifter and harsher this time. I have read that...

An alternate theory is this: Since everyone remembers what happened in the first bubble (i.e., people holding onto stocks no matter what), this time around everyone will have stops in place this time. All of these stops will cause a downward cascade in the market.

Just curious, how do you know that there are many many many traders shorting?

I don't see this - where do you see this? Please give a reference.

I remember GG's constant posts a long time ago. Always seeking advice on how to make money in the markets. Now that he claims to have come full circle in his trading, I wanted to see if he would offer any pearls of wisdom to the ET community in return. It is always interesting to hear what...

So now that you are doing well, how about giving the ET community some reasons why you are doing so much better. It might help others that are currently in the position you were in before.

Congratulations on your success GG. Many people on ET have noted that their worst drawdowns have occurred when they are overconfident. Hopefully you can avoid this trap.

I would depending on the price. You never know where AWE opens on the NYSE Monday morning. The NYSE tends to dampen moves that ECNs exaggerate in the aftermarket.

Since this sort of stuff pisses me off to no end, I looked this crap up: http://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/checksave/index.cfm?template=lc_faq_wire See the Incoming charge (at the end of the web page)? But just when I thought Bank of America represented banking hell, I found out...

I don't understand how BofA can get away with this crap. Unbelievable. Don't they want money to come into their bank? It is unbelievable that people put up with this shit. Take your business elsewhere for the sake of future generations.