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I don't know about futures, but they definitely are in stocks. They are done by Marketmakers colluding and acting together. Particularly after earnings. Also, probably analysts are involved in this venture.

Honestly, do some serious research before you start making these statements.

Also wash sale rules don't apply to Marketmakers. Their primary role is to make a market in a stock. They are not subject to the wash sale rule that you are as a trader . When your order is sent by your broker to an ECN there is a token attached to it identifying the source where it came from...

It is not just the specialist. All the Nasdaq marketmakers engage in extensive tape painting. All those shares and trades that you see going off in T&S is a crapshoot. The same bastards buying and selling their own stock. Also ECNs are not as anonymous as people think they are. These pricks can...

I am too. Notwithstanding quite a few of the idiots and clowns who don't have the faintest notion of what they are talking about.

Very perceptive and also impressive command of the English language.

Obama is the next American president.

The shortened work week could have something to do with it.

You might want to limit yourself to daytrading. If you have good discipline and money management skills it could work for you. You don't have to worry about extraneous factors such as market conditions, dishonest analysts, stupid TV commentators who don't know what they are talking about, shady...

Why the exception to daytrading? what is your rationale for saying so? You have indicated that successful daytraders are non-existent albeit in the long run.

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Does anybody know what happened to TMBR (Timber hill) IB's marketmaker. I don't see them active on stocks on Level II anymore?

You're right. I was thinking stocks.

It is illegal for MMs to trade through ECNs after hours. It is not a question of semantics. You said somebody got ripped by a MM after hours and later qualified it by implying that the MM traded through an ECN. A MM trading through an ECN after hours is illegal as per the SEC.

Are you saying that Marketmakers trade after hours?

My clock has updated correctly but the clock in my trading software has not. Maybe they'll do it on monday.

You've got to look at public perception here. There was a lot of panic selling in these stocks over the past week over Chavez's 60% control over Venezuelan oil fields. It remains to be seen how these stocks will react in the coming days. Even though the "oil companies show no sign of...

I think the problems in venezuela with Hugo Chavez wanting to assert his authority over the oil fields - Chavez's move on the oil fields came as no surprise. In January, during a nationally televised speech, the leftist leader pledged to seize control of the country's few remaining pockets of...

Too many short players in this stock right now. Regardless of what the Dow or crude oil does these individuals are hell bent on shorting this stock.