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QUESTION IS people.............we all know its going to make its way back up, but will it ONLY quickly get back up there if the S+P makes a 25% gain or will it lead the market and get back above say 650 in the next three weeks regardless of what the market and other 3 horsemen are doing?

Thanks Landis: So does the 3 or 5 megabits speed only pertain to getting our stock orders to our ISP's "local network" and the speed at which the data will come to our screen once the data has come from the broker to the "local network" of whatever ISP we select?

RL8093: Do you think that your location relative to the "central office" rather than 3 versus 5 megabits is what makes it work acceptably?? in other words does the speed we pay for just get us to the DSL central office and then the transmission to and from the broker or NYSE etc. is the same...

I have some problems with Comcast disconnects during the trading day and once every two months I might be without service for 3 hours during the trading day. However, my problem is that in the beginning my data came through like lightening and the transaction prints flew by on my level II on...

Does anyone using IB have difficulty with the data stream to their computer because of Comcast?? My present broker(not IB) has had much difficulty with Comcast's "packet-forgery" mainpulation and has had to write different patches for the trading platform to get it to work for those customers...

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PPT will re-inact the uptick shorting rule which will instantly be good for 500-750 points up. What else do they have left?

"colo/data" ???? Anyone know if its fast and reliable if we found a broker using it?

www.spryware.com

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The company has offices in NY and Chicago and their web-site is www.spryware.com. I think Terranova might use them as a data feed. Wondering if an individual trader can subscribe or afford to subscribe to their data feed?

Is IB's data for equities also "sampled" ??

what does "RTH" stand for?

When is the new futuretrade platform going to be available and will it be all inclusive?? in other words will there be charts and a reliable fast datafeed all through IB??

Would someone explain what frontednd and backend mean when applied to a broker. I'm thinking that in a broker like IB that doesn't have a stellar platform, that the frontend is a platform you purchase or get for free that functions with the brokers software??

Please someone define "direct access broker"

probably since it was only a couple of dollars higher than where it had traded right before the prior report on 12/20/2007

wouldn't you all have expected it to trade somewhat higher than it did post earnings??? or was the report and guidance not that stellar? ..........or its just too tough a market and everyone learned their lessons in the first quarter? .........or it will suddenly break out here when no one...

Dee: If your not talking about buying puts on any long position then I'm assuming your talking about shorting another security in the same sector that is weaker and likely to go down as the rest of the sectors goes higher. But if your long stock suddenly became an enron, I don't see how that...

Thanks maverick for your explanation........I've learned much about stocks but obviously know NOTHIN!(just like the FED) about options. I was thinking that one contract of puts covered 100 shares of stock and cost $8 or $9 or whatever the last price of the option was when I bought...