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naivete award contender here.

too funny. as I read your post, I began to see an obsessive shaping up in my mind's eye: Dell will lose money by **** with you. Yeah, right. That last line, however, was icing on the cake. Where do I <i>defend</i> price gouging? Please, it's a rhetorical question. You answer at the...

yeah. but without the specialist, or some dedicated, well capitalized market maker somewhere, the market suddenly becomes very prone to meltdown. you might as well have the guy next to you or in China doing your brain surgery as making your market.

well, I wonder what the condo's will go for when they convert the building.

some people are probably attracted to both due to an aversion to manual labor. same thing that makes people stroll the beach with metal detectors. *** Making decisions under uncertainty, reading the other participants, mathematical applications, and, oh, yes, money. A fascinating study...

how are you going to not do business with them, if you own 6 of their machines? Price gouging exists all over New York City, especially in the financial district. They get away with it because they can. They also seem to have a willing supply of rich kids who don't mind paying 3 bucks for a...

I thought an IPO couldn't be shorted. Used to be so. Or at least, that's what they had us believing when I was in retail.

trade bigger.

tt service is the pits.

when I was younger, and before the specialists had been chastened, my goodness....if my screens could talk (and I'm glad they couldn't).

if they had said this was coming in 2000, no one would have believed them.

indeed.

Congratulations, Dr. Niederhoffer.

you confuse what is done on the floor with what is done at most people's desks.

but they probably do listen to music, if not play it.

I used to keep a guitar by my desk. It's not allowed on the floor, so....

gosh I feel like a babe in the woods here. if I'm about coming up with efficient little apps to do analysis and possible customize the front end of an order entry platform, maybe even crunching some numbers then sending orders auto, is VB.NET the way to invest my time? Or C##? I bring up...

no, vonage was trying to get buyers for their IPO, and create demand in the aftermarket to take out the investment bankers who did the deal and their friends. but of course that's abundantly clear, now. and, apparently, they're about as good at that as they are at keeping customers happy.

so is it a done deal or not? I just read that the pesky Deutsche Bourse was "continuing their pursuit" of Euronext.

yeah, I think the ladder is pretty hokey. Maybe it grows on you. I was looking at Autotrader, which may do what I need. For now...but it would be better to be able to write my own thing. Time is the issue now.