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LOL - This is no doubt THE best route to take if you can't hack it trading, provided you're a decent writer, or know one who can help you. Besides making a living, you'll enjoy the benefit of most people thinking that you are a successful trader, when in reality, you're not! Bonus!!!

That's the biggest problem with trading; if you can't do it, you haven't learned anything else but how (not) to trade. It just ends up being wasted time; when I started doing this, a friend recommended a set a limit to how much time I was going to spend at this, and if I couldn't make money, cut...

No; actually liquidity has absolutely NOTHING to do with posted markets not being honored. Thanks for playing. And thanks for clarifying the fact that derivatives = options. I always wondered about that one.

That other thread just begged this one. :D Who are the most irritating members?

My thought is that it is just bad luck; either it gets delayed because it is a short, and a closing order then comes in and autoexecutes against the bid; or maybe the quote was stale, and so on. I really doubt anyone gives a shit about my 100 share lots, so I'm not paranoid that "the man" is out...

I'm fairly new at NYSE, so bear with me. Quite often, I'll have a nice short lined up, and I'll send an order to sell to the bid following a nice, clean uptick. Quite often, my order will sit unexecuted (although it was sent directly to NYSE) for over 1min, and then I'll see a trade at the...

I've got a better story for you, friend - how about something on how the options markets screw retail investors by not honoring posted markets? Seems to be that something like that may be a tad juicier.

I see your point, Rigel, but the thing that's always amazed me about the SEC is how they constantly badger the little guy (you can check the options threads - someone posted a clipping about the SEC nailing some clown for getting 8 grand for spoofing the options MM's) but let the exchanges and...

LOL :D Very strange indeed!

Oh come on! The problem was not IB's fault, and they DID re-route within 30min. I'd say that's pretty good. You try and run a broker with IB's client base and see how quickly YOU can re-route. I still love you, IB. :)

Where are you located, Macal? Seems like most of the people having trouble are west of the mississippi.

Yes, I am getting logged out CONSTANTLY. Definitely not my ISP this time.

Those are some interesting points. The uptick rule will slowly start to be phased out, beginning with the big caps. It will be interesting to see what will happen with smaller caps. Maybe since the PDT rule has been so effective in limiting the number of day trades, an alternative might be to...

:) No tears here either! Maybe they'll go broke and have to work for BOX to feed their fat asses.

Fuck 'em - I'm dreaming they shut down.

Why don't you try one of those little laptop USB keypads? They're less than $100 and are very small, typically just the size of the keypad on regular keyboards. I think IBM makes the more popular ones. Generics would be cheaper, though. I assume you don't need too many keys, if all you are...

LOL :D

Yes, I do have firewall software - zonealarm to be precise. Can't be too careful. I also want to try "Norton Internet Security" - supposedly it prevents banner ads and popups from appearing, but it kinda sounds too good to be true. I really hate those friggin' animated ads they have on yahoo...

I have DSL, had been rock-solid for 6mos, now has been flaking out CONSTANTLY. I'll call tech support and bitch 'em out a little bit. Glad to hear it's not IB! (Sorry IB). :D Thanks for your help, -dude

HMMM...that could be it! My ISP has been pretty shitty lately, but usually when I lose my IB connection, it attempts to login many many times, while everything else (data feed, e mail, internet explorer) are all still connected. Is it possible that sometimes my ISP could only screw up my...