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    Look at these stocks

    no tzoo pumping. i specifically listed non internet stocks that don't have the short squeeze and high % of float traded characteristics that tzoo had. besides, plenty of stocks have large short interest or small float. so if short squeeze and small float is your reason, then what made tzoo...
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    Look at these stocks

    come on, really step back and think for a minute. what could you have seen? lets just look at the popular google for a minute. in the beginning, the bulls and bears said the same things about this company that they say about a bunch of other companies. but why was this one different? i...
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    Look at these stocks

    These are a few examples of stocks that have returned several hundred percent in the past 2-3 years. What could you have seen at the beginning of their moves? What could you have said about these high performers that you can't say about the hundreds of other "fast growth" and "undervalued"...
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    Companies exiting chapter 11

    jefferies has a post-retructuring equities report if you can get your hands on it. not sure how old it is though.
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    join Group One / DRW Trading Group or Goldman as i-banking analyst?

    wharton ranks consistently at the top because no other ivy league school grants an undergraduate business degree. as a matter of fact, very few undergraduate schools in general grant business degrees. like the winners of a division IV tournament calling themselves national champions when...
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    You are a fool, if think become consistant within few years

    nana trader is the reason why hedge funds can raise millions and millions of dollars with mediocre performance. hfs have done a great job generating an aura of eliteness by piggybacking on the names of a few top managers (Soros, Citadel, SAC, etc.). these top funds carry the image of the...
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    join Group One / DRW Trading Group or Goldman as i-banking analyst?

    here's what i banks really paid mbas a few years ago. i was in one of these firms and the numbers are dead on. carl, you're gonna hear what you wanna hear, so i ain't gonna spend a lot of time convincing you. go to GS dumbasss...the brand name on your resume is what's gonna open doors for...
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    How can I determing best combination of inputs?

    Say I have 10 factors to test, and I want to determine the best combination of factors. I can't test every possible combination because I don't have the resources and the time. I am thinking of testing each factor individually first. Then rank them from most effective to least effective...
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    API orders, secrecy

    that conditional order would still be viewable by your broker. it may not be held at the exchange, but your broker can definitely view it (if they want to).
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    IB API Question

    Is there a way to export your portfolio using the Visual Basic API? I know that there is an "Export Portfolio" option in the TWS account menu, but I don't want all that info. I just want the symbol and quantity. I have also tried the updateportfolio event, but I can't seem to get it grab...
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    IQ Feed Sockets question

    developers have to pay them $300 to help develop their product? wtf is that? wouldn't they want as many developers to developers as possible so more people will subscribe to their feed? seems to me this is how the other companies do it.
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    IQ Feed Sockets question

    Can someone provide a Visual Basic example to grab data from IQfeed using sockets? Say I want to grab the bid price for Yahoo. I think I can figure it out from there. I can't seem to find any documentation on it (heck I don't even know the host name and port number.)
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    IB API VB orderstatus()

    I can't seem to get orderstatus() to work. I can get the order to submit but I can't get the status to show. Below is my code. Any suggestions? Private Sub orderStatus(ByVal id As Long, status As String, filled As Long, remaining As Long, avgfillprice As Double, permid As Long, parentid As...
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    IB Advisor Friends & Family account

    make sure you are able to open 3 separate accounts under your name. the idea of a friends and family account is that you are the advisor and you manage your friends' and family's money, so each of the sub-accounts should belong to someone else. also, i don't think you will be able to freely...
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    Ocean Shores, Washington?

    Hey does anyone know anything about this place? I'm watching a real estate infomercial about buying land and building a house there. At first I thought it was a joke but after I checked it out I'm kind of intrigued. lol! www.oceanvisit.com www.osgov.com it's only around 120 miles...
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    Rebate trading.

    which broker(s) lets you trade with commissions and rebates like that?
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    Excel DDE + IB

    I think the sleep API will do the trick. First declare the Sleep API: Private Declare Function Sleep Lib "kernel32"(ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) Then just do this whenever you want your code to wait 1 second before executing: Call Sleep(1000) 'Sleeps for 1 second. Maybe put that in...
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    Recovering money from HF blowup

    Why can't they follow the money trail and find the money? In this case, it looks like it wasn't just trading losses. It looks like they stole money from investors, plain and simple. Why can't they just follow the money trail and see where it leads? Even if they transferred money to a Swiss...
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    IB API - Visual Basic

    whenever it connects, TWS shows a pop up box that says "allow incoming connection?" and then i have to click yes. is there any way to have them connect without having to deal with this step? here's the code for my connect button: Private Sub cmdConnect_Click() Dim host As String...
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    IB API - Visual Basic

    okay great. i got it to work, but i have a question about reqmktdata. GATrader: In your example, reqmktdata has 10 arguments. However, in the IB User Guide, it says that there are only 9. Below is what it says in the IB user's guide. void reqMktData(long id, String symbol, String...
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