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No. You're confusing equity buying power with futures performance bonds. If you have $3940 in your account, you can trade 1 ES contract overnight or 2 contracts during the day or buy $7880 of stock (ignoring commissions). Note that you need at least $25K to get 4x buying power for stocks -...

How's this for extinct?

Awkward: What do you mean by margin rates? Debit interest on loans against stock positions? Credit interest on credit balances? IB charges LIBOR+1.5 for debit balances under $100K ( http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/interest.php?ib_entity=llc#interest for complete info )...

Quote from RedManPlus: OK, I apologize to alanm if I confused the issue. But you seem to just knee-jerk defend market makers with completely hypothetical excuses. I don't see where I've done that. I was taking about ECNs, and some reasons why one would not get filled. Nothing hypothetical...

I didn't move it - someone else did, and then the original poster went with it (I think - the language is too imprecise to be sure :) ). In any case, if we're talking about NYSE quotes, you're better off always assuming they cannot be hit because they are, by their nature, somewhat to...

Doesn't likely have anything to do with backing away. Depending on the exact situation, various ECNs will display quotes that cannot be executed against because of trade-through and tick test rules. You may be able to find the details on their sites. Could also be stale quotes, though I don't...

How many of these threads do we really need?

No. :)

Do you mean the "exchange/source" (i.e. normally N for NYSE, P for ARCA, etc.) or the "condition"? If you're talking about the "condition", T is the indicator for "Form-T", which is basically any trade that occurs outside regular market hours (09:30-16:00 ET). I've never seen a T in the...

Anybody else getting anything out of NewsStrike? Seems to be dead for the last couple days.

My browser settings are intentionally more restrictive than "normal" for security reasons. What's changed is that you now seem to be using an ActiveX control for something, where before you did not. Saying no to the question doesn't change my experience with the site, so whatever it is does...

And again this morning for ROH: 07:55:08 official PR on PRN, repeated on DJ at 55:09 - Bidder for size showed up at +3% at 07:49:07. Can someone confirm these timestamps on Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.?

What's with the ActiveX scripting warning I have to say "no" to on every page now? It doesn't seem to be necessary to proper use of the board, and I'd rather not put ET in the "trusted" list (to eliminate the warning). Any way we can get a preferences flag to eliminate whatever the control is?

Yes, I know. I'm hoping some other HTML jockey has saved me from re-inventing the wheel.

I, too, would not generally be served by this timeframe, as I would get rejects early in the pre-market, and not be interested in those names once the market opens (and certainly not as late as 1100 ET). On rare occasions, the same stock may continue to be in play after-hours, where I might make...

OT: Did you save settings after starting up and rolling the symbols (which I believe is necessary)? I suppose it would be nice if this were automatic, but I don't think it is. plugger: Orders for what instrument, exactly when? For futures contracts, at least, I believe DAY orders expire when...

Does anyone have a stand-alone application that watches the Naz halt list for changes and makes a noise and displays them? It's a pain to have to always keep my eye on it and notice when it changes.

Can someone comment on whether they see significantly earlier times in their newsfeeds (and where it was) for these stocks tonight? MU @ 17:12:17 ET (first DJ headline) - Started running at 17:09:24. Someone got a head start (and did the wrong thing with it, as it turns out)? BOL @...

Why would one want to help out other people in a contest?

I guess I stand corrected. What a nightmare that's going to be! I only do a couple million shares a year, and it'll be a small book when printed. I can only imagine what it looks like for the guys that do real volume. :( (Sorry for the OT hijacking)