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    Verizon will turn over your records even w/o a court order this new company won't.

    Why short them? Will these long-held policies reduce their income?
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    Why I think Java will take the lead over C++

    Oracle is suing Google for $6.1 billion over java. That will almost pay for the Sun acquisition. I don't see them dropping support for java while the lawsuit (and its appeals) are ongoing.
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    IB and option combo reporting

    I take a screen shot of the trade log window at the end of each day. From the trade log window, you can export your trade records to a CSV file. Trade records are also automatically saved to a file named executions.txt in your c:\IBJts\accountname directory Here is what a combo looks...
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    'Software on Android phones 'tracking every key stroke''

    Google has nothing to do with Carrier IQ (aside from providing the OS that it and tens of thousands of other pieces of third-party software run on). It's the carriers who put it on the phones. Phones like the Nexus don't have it.
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    TD Ameritrade starting to get it right

    Yes, although bids and asks are kept up-to-date during extended hours, the Last field for stocks is either zero during pre-market or the value it had at the 4PM close during the after-hours session. TOS support said that one can look at the "Mark" field, which is the midpoint between bid and...
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    Corzine expected to plead the fifth

    Gotta love the Post. Making a headline and lede about something that anonymous "sources" said, but when it actually quotes the sources, none of them say anything about Corzine taking the fifth. Which he didn't. Murdoch continues his witch hunt on liberals.
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    TD Ameritrade starting to get it right

    Did that video say anything about finally having watchlists show the "last trade" prices for stocks during extended hours?
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    FS: VM Hosts / Private Cloud - 3x Dell T7400 with 180+ VM's $27k obo

    Well, VMware ESXi 5.0 Enterprise Plus is worth a lot, too, if it's the licensed version and not an eval. Several thousand dollars per server.
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    Black Friday stock sales.

    At the mall yesterday, the ECB outlet store had some great deals on Greek and Italian government bonds.
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    US stock trading halted premarket?

    Not many people know this, but one of the provisions of BAC's purchase of ML was that if BAC ever fell to 52-week lows, US markets would be halted for 24 hours as sort of a circuit breaker. And after they resume, if BAC is again at 52-week lows, they will halt US markets after half a day and...
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    stock spam sent to your brokerage acct.

    For some background on why spam was sent to your izone email address a few years ago, google for "ameritrade spam".
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    IB Margin Changes

    Indeed, I do this with one of my accounts. However, if you want to trade options in a non-IRA account, it has to be a margin account, even if you never use more than the account's available cash.
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    Language of the future

    Natural language can be disambiguated if you build in enough knowledge of the context. See IBM's Watson, which could understand Jeopardy clues.
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    CNBC Guest alleges: NFLX Cooking the Books

    Shorts are never wrong; they're either right or early. He'll be back to congratulate himself if PCLN ever misses.
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    Why you want to short this market ?

    Really? FTSE100 is around 20% less than its 2008 highs. CAC 40 is down around 45% from 2007/2008 highs. Which markets are at all-time highs?
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    oct 28 or oct 27 experiation?

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=V+Options shows Oct 28 options. What URL on Yahoo are you looking at that says Oct 27?
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    How to manage this beast?

    I don't know whether you were auto-assigned, but holders of long options can exercise after hours, sometimes until 4:30 or 5:30PM. It depends on the broker. The OCC says the brokers have to request exercises by 8PM. SPY was above $116 at 4:30, so somebody holding $116 calls could have asked to...
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    1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

    If a $.25 fee on a contract with a notional value of, what, $60K is going to cause such dire consequences, maybe Mr. Duffy should lower his exchange's fees. Think how many hungry children in Africa could be fed.
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    Harrisburg PA files bankruptcy.

    Capitals aren't necessarily great cities... Harrisburg has a median household income of just $30K/yr. It's a poor city, like DC.
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    TDAmeritrade down again this morning. I am so upset

    How expensive is it to trade 10000 shares at a broker that, say, sends most of your orders to sit at NITE?
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