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Would anyone like to suggest some stocks (to add to my watch list) where a recent change in the company (i.e. merger, balance sheet or prospectus, etc.) now puts ongoing pressure on the shorts? Thank you in advance.

Do you have a link(s)?

No, for me it's 1 day old! :)

Ok, found the best evidence regarding ATD: ATD ranks the best in frequency & in amount of price improvement! http://www.swampfox.ws/atd-ranked-best-overall-execution-venue-for-nasdaq-national-market-by-celent

It seems in September, Fidelity has added ATD: https://www.actionsxchange.com/Details/FAX_ATD.pdf

EDIT: It seems though that Citigroup has acquired ATD! http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=43&itemID=145

Found Thinkorswim. It's quote amazing how albeit 1/2 of the orders for stocks are going to Citigroup, still, with the other 1/2 going to ATD (automated trading desk), how much ATD has made a difference! http://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=orderRoutingReports

This is all that I've found on IB so far: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/legalDocuments/timberHill.php?ib_entity=llc

Here is Fidelity, which is about industry average. http://www.clearing.fidelity.com/legal/price.html

With some research, here is TD Ameritrade Institutional's price improvement information (which is excellent). http://www.tdainstitutional.com/bro...yexecution.html I get the feeling that one should be happy about price improvement to market centers, and have mixed feelings if you get it from...

TD Ameritrade Institutional shows excellent price improvement! http://www.tdainstitutional.com/brokerage/qualityexecution.html

http://www.scotttradeelite.com/online_trading_documents/trading_execution/index.asp Scottrade shows execution speed is .74 seconds instead of the industry average of .6 seconds, but their price improvement is substantially better. See also...

See this link about price improvement. http://www1.cchwallstreet.com/ws-portal/content/c360/07-11-2006/container.jsp?fn=c360_analysis See also this link, especially the last paragraph "New Rules..." http://thetaxspecialist.com/is-brokertrades.php

Some ET members laugh at the idea of using TD Ameritrade for stocks. I believe, in part, it's because the jumping from screen to screen to place & monitor your orders, & because of the fixed cost but the reality is, why not using for larger size orders like 1k-2k shares plus? They no longer...

When you say "exchange self-help", do you mean market centers? See what TD Ameritrade says about themsleves: "Where your order is executed can impact the price you pay for a stock because your broker generally has a choice in where to route your order. We pursue the highest quality order...

If what is being offered by a particular market center is better than NBBO, then I would want to call that "price improvement"--unless you've got another name for it.

I would like to review a list of stocks that were diluted in value due to private equity group deals--if you have any ideas. A classical one was with DRL, where the private equity group acquired 80% of the company at a greatly diluted price. [I recently saw this syndrom by TMA (where under...

Interesting. In another thread, where I was mentioning I was getting price improvement for the same trades with TOS & not with IB, IB traced the source of the issue to being ATD (automated trading desk), and that IB would look to enable this by them as well. This involved DRL, a NYSE listed...

No contradiction. I was speculating that if you are selling & getting price imrovement the stock is likely to go higher, & you brought a case where you are getting price improvement buying & then the stock tanks. B) Interesting how you note the specialist as the party who offers price...

...would you say "be thankful" and keep selling, or "hold off" because this stock is going higher?