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Is there a way in Quotetracker to show tick-by-tick charts of bid, ask, and trades, as do the little pop-up charts in Streamer and Command Center?

I bought some March 42.5 calls on Thursday the 12th after the big end of day rally in the market. They didn't go anywhere on Friday (well, up .30 or so when the market dropped during the last few minutes of the day). I sold them early Tuesday for a modest ($1.60) gain. I couldn't help...

I think if Google were logging all of your web browsing, people would have noticed and it would have hit the mainstream media by now.

It's an issue if you can't get filled at your price because of the routing your broker chose. Maybe inter-exchange linkage has improved over the past couple years. But here's the problem I used to run into at one broker. Say CBOE was quoting $2.00x$2.20 and PHLX was quoting $2.10x$2.30. I...

Cisco would be a reasonable addition. AAPL and GOOG are too expensive and volatile for a price-weighted index like the Dow. Volatility would be crazy. GOOG's move from Jan 20 to Feb 9 would have moved the Dow by 700 points. GOOG's 90-point jump on April 18, 2008 would have raised the Dow by...

The market will sell the news. Actually, the market may hold steady on Tuesday because of the impending announcement on Wednesday about the mortgage bailout. Then the market will sell that news.

In marketwatch, when you're on the page with the summary and 5-day chart of the option, click on the option symbol, and it'll take you to another summary page where you can then get more extensive charts. But marketwatch charts only show the trades. Many options do not trade all that...

One day while I was staring at my platform, around 16:04, I saw in the messages window a fill, a buy of $40K worth of USNA. I'd never even looked at that stock. There was no message about the order having being placed, so I was pretty sure it was an error on the broker's end and not due to a...

Chrome has sandboxing technology. Firefox is a more mature product. I don't visit dodgy sites with either, especially because there are attack vectors that are independent of the browsers. A few months ago, some advertiser on huffingtonpost, which I didn't consider a dodgy site, was sending...

I guess where Gastropod and I agree is that it's OK to overwrite the first few tracks of your disk with zeroes or garbage, and that should be enough to get rid of any boot sector virus that is there. So just do that.

Sure, if the MBR were overwritten, the OS at some level will think it's a different disk. I've actually done this intentionally when I have a 300GB disk I need to clone and all I have is a 301GB disk. The OS doesn't really care if the geometry is different from what the target disk originally...

Sorry, this should be "and the replacement sectors for the bad sectors".

No. dd'ing an entire disk (or at least the beginning, if you don't want to wait for a long time) with zeroes is exactly what you want to do if you have an infected MBR. And we do this when we need to redeploy a disk to hold a different OS or to be in a different RAID box. You are still living in...

But you need to have a margin account (unless it's an IRA) to trade options.

That's good news. The main problem with the Ameritrade quote feed wasn't so much that it fell a few seconds behind but that it just froze, often regressing to a quote a couple hours old, especially with options. And the freeze could last for hours. My other main complaint is their execution...

Why would they do that? Unless there's some technical resistance in the way, an NFP report that's good for a 3% pop will still be good for a 3% pop no matter what the market did the day before.

I suspect the jobs numbers leaked out to the big boys yesterday and they're not as bad as people expected.

With the first wave of TARP money, some banks were forced by the govt to accept handouts even though they didn't want them. The govt's rationale was that if a bank had to ask for the money, that would be an indication that they were in trouble and there could be a run on the bank. So the govt...

Another thing I found out about option orders during the market open: Occasionally I go away on holiday for a few days where I'm incommunicado, so I place limit GTC orders to close out my options. Occasionally the underlying has gapped up and my limit price for selling my call option is now...

With your volume, E*Trade should be charging you the $7.99 commission.