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Anybody know of any DAT (or even non DAT) brokers that offer unlimited, free Island? I know Cybertrader does, but I don't like some of the other fees they impose, such as their bogus two minute "benefit" fee of "only" .005 per share! Ameritrade offers free Island routing as well, but not for...

For the past few months, I've been noticing that trades that Knight Trading Group (MMID: NITE) executes are showing up on the T&S as CSE, short for the Cincinnati Stock Exchange. Since when did NITE become part of the CSE? Also, it seems like the Brut ECN is now somehow a part of the BSE...

Does anyone know of any software that breaks down Archipelago's order depth in greater detail? For example, there are 200,000 share being bid on @ $2.50 for symbol ABC; however, those shares represent 8 different orders. The current ARCA book just shows one listing for the 200,000 shares instead...

Display real time bid/ask quotes for thousands of symbols, alerting me of any stocks that have either crossed or locked bid/asks. I want to be able to setup ONE such alert for ALL stocks on my list. Medved's Quotetracker can only do alerts for individual stocks that you specify. Thanks for...

It's to my understanding that market makers such as Knight or Schwab are not obligated to reflect orders in excess of 9,999 shares on Level II for Nasdaq stocks. Does this mean that orders of 9,999 shares or less get fill priority over orders of 10,000 shares or more, even if the larger order...

Besides RML Trading, what other retail brokers pass on the ECN rebates to the trader? Thanks in advance for any leads! Marc

Besides contacting each ECN and MM individually, is there a way to find out how many decimal points each one accepts for incoming orders? Example: I want to buy or sell SUNW, but instead of placing an order for $5.50, I want to make it $5.505 (three decimals) or $5.5075 (four decimals). Now...

How come ntrd can't get hit through ArcaEX? Anyone notice there's sometimes a lowercase ntrd and uppercase NTRD on the same stock at the same price? What's up with that? Thanks for any info, Marc

Anyone else notice that eSignal doesn't show pre-market trades from 7am to 8am? Or afterhours trades from 6:30pm to 8:00pm? This seems to only apply to Nasdaq securities. Thanks for any info, Marc

I'm a bit disappointed that eSignal rounds the bids and offers for the ARCA book to only two decimal places. I know ARCA makes their book's bids and offers viewable in up to four decimal places, because I've seen it personally through brokers... Thanks, Marc

Anyone notice there's a new exchange code being posted under time and sales for some Nasdaq trades? The new one is "NASD." I think this is a new exchange which includes non-participants (INCA)? Anyone have any ideas? The other exchange codes I see are NMS, CSE (Island) and sometimes AMEX...

On Level II for NYSE and AMEX stocks, there's the MMID "THRD" which I believe stands for third market. I know Knight is included, but who else? Thanks for any info, Marc

Since I only live an hour away from NYC, I was thinking of attending all day on Saturday and Sunday. My question is: How can this whole expo, as well as a lot of the courses, be free? I'm a bit skeptical here, having never gone to one of these before. A lot of the classes look really good too...

I've done a bit of searching, but can't seem to find a site that shows total daily volume leaders (let's say the top 50 or so for each exchange: Nasdaq, NYSE, Amex) in real time. I've found a bunch, but for some stupid reason they all seem to filter out stocks that are under $5. I don't care...

Subject says it all... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marc

I use eSignal strictly for Level II and nothing else. It's disappointing that the Time and Sales data doesn't show the exchange codes for Nasdaq stocks. For example, "Q" or "C" for Cincinnati. Also, the T&S time is rounded off to the minute. For example, a trade made at 12:05:01 and a...

We all know "Q" means everything except "C" which is the Cincinnati Exchange or the Island ECN. But today there's a new one: "M" Any ideas on what this new one is? Thanks, Marc

Is there a reason why ADFN and INCA have to mirror one another? Pretty damn annoying if you ask me. Marc

I searched the archives for shits and giggles and saw that last winter there was a get together at a NYC area bar. I think it would be pretty cool to get together with other traders and shoot the shit over a few drinks. I trade privately so I never really get to exchange war stories with other...

Every now and then I'll be scalping a stock and before my trade ever gets executed, I see a few prints ahead of my order by a hundredth of a cent. For example, I'll bid .4605 and immediately after, before I even get a single fill, I'll see .4606 on the tape. SOMEBODY KNOWS WHERE MY ORDER IS...