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TriPack, I respectfully disagree. If we are required to pay for these quotes, then they should be worth their salt. We should not make excuses and contort ourselves or our strategies to fit the shortcomings of IB´s quote system. Catoosa, have you e-mailed management? In the past, a...

Thanks for the replies. It reminds me of another question that I´ve always had, which is what do clearing firms do exactly?

This may be a really dumb question (but that has never stopped me before): When a professional firm such as Bright, Echo, etc. give 20X margin intra-day and 5X overnight, where does the credit/money come from? Thanks

Its either a trader in a pit gesturing to make a trade..... or someone who just before being run over by a steam roller, gestured to the driver. :D :D

I don´t trade commodities, but after that caveat, I believe that only extremes of COT are useful as signals.

I read on thestreet.com that by showing records from the hedge fund´s trading activity they proved that certain trades which are alleged in the book never occured. Based on this and probably some heavy litigation pressure from Cramer, they decided to call it a day.

Just came across this article from HD Brous´s site: http://www.cross-currents.net/outlook.htm Also from thestreet.com, I got a neat idea attempting to explain the subdued VIX readings. The theory is based on the long convertible bond, short call strategy that a lot of people are using...

Tony, this was before he lowered his portfolio by a factor of 5 (from $500,000 to $100,000) so the interest was 1.92% for the 8 months. My point though is the amount of his return represented by his interest earned (doing nothing) and how much represents his trading.

There is a free edition of Alan Farley´s swing trading newsletter on thestreet.com and I thought those starting out would find it interesting: http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/common/images/pdf/20020318daily_swing.pdf (note: I have no connection with Alan or thestreet.com just thought this...

Tony, I was away and didn´t have access to the net before. I think this is another way that shortboy.com manipulates his returns: In 1999 his interest income: 30205 his total income 114105 So 26% of his profit was not from trading In 2000 his interest income: 36136.5 his total income...

Nitro, personally I´m not interested in fundemental crap but the French company is Carrefour and they are the Walmart of Europe, so to speak. They are focusing in expansion in their home turf for now. Last year they bought Pryca in Spain and have finished converting all their stores. Their...

He also launched a hedge fund which proceeded to lose around half of the put up capital. Unfortunately his clients couldn´t get out due to a time clause in the contract which stipulated a one year holding time. Rather painful being forced to watch your money dying a slow agonizing death.

Check out: http://www.wilshire.com/Indexes/Broad/Wilshire5000/ http://www.wilshire.com/Indexes/MarketData.html

Tony, since you may not know Sam Contari as well as the rest of us here on the board let me fill you in....he is here with a simple agenda, to promote shortboy.com Heck! he may even be Bill Ginsberg (owner of same site). Almost all of his 50 some odd posts are regarding, defending, promoting...

Just wanted to give a heads up to whoever attempts to do a REGEDIT that they better know exactly what they are doing and what consequences their modifications will have! (speaking from experience here!:D ) I would side with rtharp and say just go for a clean re-install. The time spent...

seanote, just wondering what the resolution of the long calls $SOX was? I believe you had 10 and exited one before leaving. Thanks

...didn´t Livermore also say that it was his "sitting" that made him money?

A simple option would be to make it a spreadsheet (Excel) exportable file so that you could manipulate it as you wanted.

CNBC and Barron´s have been sparring for longer than I care remember. Usually it goes like this....Barron´s points out a small/stupid mistake by CNBC the week before...followed by Mark Haines or Joe Kernan taking jibes at Alan Abelson´s column or some other part of Barron´s, the next Monday...

I am not even close to an expert but I think the basic concept is that the majority of market participants suddenly want to buy, or to sell one stock....causing an 'imbalance'. The specialist doesn´t want to take the other side, atleast not so many shares because of the risk, so s/he advertises...