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Thanks, Def. I should have thought to come to you first. :)

My experience was similar. There were big lags--sometimes as long as 30-60 seconds--in updating the inside bids and asks today. My basis for comparison was watching Level II within eSignal.

Dear Ms. Carey, Two years in Japan, eh? I was two years in China. I miss it. You asked for suggestions for weightings. I'd like to offer a slightly different approach. How about rethinking the research design, moving from a composite index approach (various point totals in various...

Dear Ms. Carey, Thanks for your elaboration. I'm glad Barron's respects writing as much as you've described, and I understand that despite their unusual support you still face space constraints. Since it sounds like you have a lock on the Barron's online broker gig, I look forward to...

Dear Ms. Carey, I subscribe to Barron's, derive value from it, and read several of the columns in your series. For me your narrative was illuminating. But one underlying question here seems to be this: are Barron's readers really quite as homogeneous as a single ranking seems to assume...

The latter situation is exactly where I would find this most valuable.

I think fast fills in that case can be explained more simply: panicked sellers are nailing your bid or greedy buyers are nailing your offer as they see prices moving away from them (and toward you).

Thanks, Def. I hope you're right. That would make the process of getting fills on shorts much, much easier.

I just signed up for IB. Might anyone know if IB allows you to "press the bid" when shorting? By that I mean the software will automatically refresh your short offer to be the best inside bid all the way down to a prespecified limit until either (1) your short order is filled or (2) the best...