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Which begs the (possibly rhetorical) question - if this is your smallest of many accounts, why are you are hard-ass with everybody? What's the point of being aggressively negative in all your posts on ET?

from dictionary.reference.com piker   pik·er [pahy-ker] Show IPA noun Informal. 1. a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way. 2. a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad. 3. a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way. Origin...

from http://www.word-detective.com/112700.html#piker Dear Word Detective: Having returned from a fishing trip where pike were not our sought-after fish, I wondered where the phrase "He is a real piker" came from. Any clues? -- Robert Levine, Old Greenwich, CT. I'll give it a shot, but...

Pick any issue in politics, and you have your answer. One item can have tens of thousands of different interpretations, each with subtle differences due to age, race, education, income, religion, life experience, and other biases or judgments. The edge isn't from the price action directly...

Perl is the core scripting language. Similar to Ruby or Python or Lua, etc. Other people have written add-ons that enhance/simplify certain tasks, such as retrieving data from the web, parsing web pages, manipulating databases, creating charts, calculating statistics or option Greeks, etc...

The point is, companies like IB and the cell phone companies are in enviable positions - they have captive customers and possess pricing power. They can lower commissions and make it look like you're getting a great deal. But on the back-end, they can add small fees that individually are...

Maybe they charge the fees because they know most people will pay without complaining or leaving. Just look at the cell phone companies. One just added a new $.50/mo fee to every cell phone contract. The projection is that it'll add an additional $50MM a year in revenue. A whole lot of...

With most cable modems, you just need 1 NIC since the modems often have 4 ports on the box. Traffic is broadcast across all 4 ports, so you can plug in your system into any of the 4 ports to see all the traffic coming in from the outside. With 2 ports, you can configure the box as a router...

Probably an IRQ conflict between the 1-2 video card and the SIIG card. The BIOS probably recognizes the SIIG card before any of the video cards. Check your startup messages when the system boots. The simple solution might be to reorder the video cards by switching slots. Also, some...

My solution to building a database from Yahoo Finance is to just scrape the pages: 1. Go to the sectors page. Scrape the 10 or so Sectors, and obtain the links to each individual Sector page 2. Parse each Sector page, obtaining the name and URL of each Industry in that Sector. 3. Parse...

Here ya go, straight from my database via Yahoo Finance. Includes US Stocks and ETFs

I'm not offended. It's just my only experience with the word came from a broker using it to describe traders that didn't generate sufficient commission income for his brokerage. Traders who, in his opinion, were a waste of time. The guy only wanted large, active accounts as customers...

Because piker has a negative connotation, and your question is posited negatively with a heavy dose of judgment...

Does it matter? What's next? People posting penis pics to prove their alpha-ness?

Really? I guess Amazon should just fold their tent and go home...

No free data.... CSI Data offers the service via their Commercial plan for $10K PremiumData.net offers EOD data for active and delisted stocks dating to 1950 for about $1,200.

Premium Data has active and delisted US stocks from 1950. Dunno if they have the CUSIP numbers. http://www.premiumdata.net/

A goodly portion of the fake accounts are advertising-related. You have to create an account in order to advertise on the system. Scammers (aka bad affiliate marketers) use robots to create fake accounts and click on their/their partner's ads to generate bogus lead income. The number of...

Finviz is pretty slick. And fast, too.

Why split the feed? Why not establish a connection from each machine and see what happens? Who knows, it might just work. Try it and find out... If you're on a private network sitting behind a firewall that NATs your outbound traffic into a public address, then they'll think you have 1...