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Example: On a stock quoted 19.75 asked gets a large buy order that would require going to 19.80 to completely fill. Under the current system, 1 large print would happen at 19.80. If you had a sell order at 19.78, you'd get 19.80. This is known as price improvement and is one of the big...

Don, I'm not thrilled about the fee either, but let's keep it in perspective vs. routing to ARCA or Nasdaq. Taking liquidity: ARCA: .001/share Nasdaq: .0007/share NYSE: .00025/share Adding: Arca: 0 Nasdaq: 0 NYSE: .00025/share (if I understand the fee correctly). I don't see how...

Seller is filled at 20.20. Buyer gets the liquidity rebate because he has a resting order on the book. So the seller gets a price improvement but pays to remove liquidity. Seller still comes out ahead of where he expected. At IB, I believe only INET has hidden orders. Edit: FYI, reading...

Don't worry, he only fluffed the straight guys. Me? Electrical Engineer at a semiconductor company. I echo Ozzy's sentiments.

Good point. My advice assumes you have a card in your AGP port.

Windows xp is smart enough to handle multiple cards. The old one will not shut down. For your new card get the cheapest one that meets your needs. I bought a 2nd PCI card from CompUSA for $70. works great. As long as it has the right output connections it should work. Two cards of the same...

Sorry, should have looked at your stocks. GPS: opened on a flat tick, but closed Monday on a downtick. No fill for you. EDIT: UPS: opened up 1 tick. There's no way it could have traded through you. "Orders ahead" excuse sticks.

They may not have traded through. Since you can't short on a downtick, the specialist considers your order entered at the lowest uptick price. Did the open trade through that?

If a stock opens at your exact price and not through it, you can count on getting the "orders ahead" song and dance. How big the uptick is does not matter. Shorts are always last in line. If they trade through your price, you've got a legitimate gripe.

Well, all this talk about Synergy made me try again to make it work in my setup. I uninstalled and reinstalled on all my machines. Works like a champ now. I have no idea what I was doing wrong earlier. I'm stoked! This is such a great utility, I'm glad to have it back. Thanks for the...

Consider yourself fortunate on your outages. Also you need to define what an outage is. For me anything lasting longer than a few seconds is an outage as it disrupts my trading, particularly the automated systems. Unless you have a setup that automatically switches over on failure you may not...

My main goals were to get more bandwidth and to provide redundancy. I initially was considering a dual WAN router but on one of the discussions here SideShowBob talked me out of it and steered me to a dual NIC/dual router approach. Beyond losing Synergy I have zero complaints. Windows XP...

Synergy is pure software that allows a single keyboard to control all PC's on a networks as one giant virtual screen. No physical switch needed. Just a single router. And it's free. Just google synergy.

I did use Synergy and loved it until I went to a dual ISP, dual router, dual NIC setup. I really like the setup for reliability and bandwidth, but Synergy will not work anymore. Something about seeing two networks causes it to fail.

:eek: I got a locate for it, but pulled it on the news. Rules are rules. Woulda been nice though. Those are the events that form the foundation of new bad habits.

I'm posting my blotter just to ask - where is everyone? Someone must have struck it big on the close. I got caught totally flat-footed and still cashed in. Let's see some blotters!

Thanks for the advice. That's a good strategy. In this particular case I was speaking theoretically. I learned long ago (the hard way) not to upgrade unless absolutely necessary and I did not in this case. I do know people who got burned on the API with this release and from their...

How about a heads up that the ActiveX controls were actually going to change on any given TWS release????? 5 minutes before open is a terrible time to find out on my own.

I live in sugar beet country as well and the sugar plants based on them are hurting badly here too. But if sugar beets can't compete with offshore sugar, why do you think they can compete with offshore sugar for ethanol or sugar based ethanol? Not trying to be confrontational, but it doesn't...

3 duds and one big winner, NOC. I was pretty big in him luckily. +1600 for the day. Disappointing quad witch as usual.