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So I updated to the latest version of Echopro this week and all week long I've had nothing but problems. Stuck quotes, system crashes, etc... According to echo I'm the only one experiencing these problems, anyone else having issues with this latest version?

Hey has anyone ever heard of a PIPE portfolio, particularly as it pertains to hedge funds? Came across this other day and had no idea what a PIPE portolio would be.

haven't heard from some of the old standbys in a while like Lescor or mschey..how are you guys doing this month?

Is anyone else experiencing open book problems? My provider is saying it's a NYSE issue, just wanted to check with others.

I was away this afternoon, looking at today's action I'm curious as to what prompted that huge rally. I see the GM CEO announced they're not considering bankruptcy, and the Refco story continues to unfold. Beyond that I don't see any other major news story. I'm guessing it was a combo of the...

"Even in this case I wouldn't just enter a trade against momentum" Agreed trading against the trend is dangerous, and agreed the presence of a large print may not be a good enough signal for a reversal, however I think the poster is using this strategy to capture quick, minor pullbacks. As...

"Last year the most money I made in one day was while I was golfing and that was the most fun I had trading :-)" Like Livermore said, "it's not the trading that makes me money, it's the sitting."

Bundlemaker, are there any texts you would reccomend on the topic of altered states?

Sammy, Your numbers in the last month look great, it seems you keep your lot size pretty small, is there a reason you don't step up in size?

"Before Livermore shot himself, he said he's life as speculator was a failure" I could be wrong here, not a Livermore historian, but I believe at the time of his suicide he, and the estate he left, was obscenely loaded. His comment about hie failure was not about $$$ gain or loss. Rather...

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy...

This one caught my attention as well. I can see how an underlying stock with a fair amount of open interest would be affected by vigorous option trading, but it's not like IBM is the only stock out there that guys put on large option positions and hedge with the stock, what makes, or could make...

for most retailers the first thurs of the month in the morning

"It could be your trading software doing this, it could be the ECN, I don't know" Pretty sure it's ARCA which is controlling the price adjustment. From their site: "On a Listed Short Sales if the order is marketable and would not create a downtick the order is executed at the bid. If the...

Asked this to my own firm with no answer, waiting for replies from ARCA and Island, thought I'd check here. 90% of the time whenever I place a short order on an ECN for a listed equity I will be represented at either the inside offer or the last print (or 1 penny above) so for instance if the...

Curious if any equity traders look to option prints/movement as an indicator for short term equity movement (ie within the next couple secs-minutes)? I mean beyond keeping track of oi or being aware of the nearest strike price near expiration. More like if you were a scalper watching an...

while I agree with many of you, in all due respect , you need to learn how to trade. If you want to short 10,000 shares of WYE, you can't do it on a downtick. And in the end if your're not tradring that kind of size, then why bother???

what was the comment?

well now I have an excuse for today's losses, guess I better start working on tomorrow. One excuse at a time.

I have software which allows me to link my quote platform streaming data and excel via a dde link so I have streaming quotes in a spreadsheet. Does anyone know if excel has the ability to dump all this streaming data into another program?