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I have been getting funky quotes and NYSE executions that are much slower and a little less favorable than usual. Other stocks don't seem to be affected by this phenomenon. Any ideas?

I'm not sure I would have made this decision if I were one of the crooks running ISLD. In my opinion they think they are more important than they actually are. Who is going to add liquidity now? I just can't imagine lots of people going: Hmmm, PEP is quoted 38.25 x 38.26 I think I'll send my...

AFAIK, if you are short the stock, you must pay the dividend, i.e. you get a "negative dividend" for your negative position. But I don't think they can do that with voting rights. Maybe they let you vote yes or no and if you vote yes it counts as negative yes, which is no. But then again...

I think I read in my margin account agreement that the broker will try to borrow the stock from another account, and that will usually be possible, but in the unlikely event that he cannot find stock to borrow on your behalf, your short can be covered (I think they call it "called back from...

While I think I understand what kind of play you are referring to, I must say certain option premiums are definitely worth losing quite a bit of the principal. There are a few tech stocks that have been trading around 10 or 12.5 for months now, if not years, and each month (well, almost) I can...

98.99% if you don't mind.

What about baseball cards?

I think we all (except for one person) agree that excellent executions and low commissions are way more important than display of the entry price on the main page or TWS playing you a song when you start it up on your birthday. But have any of you ever looked at it this way: A successful...

I only followed US data, so I cannot say anything about other data. The problem with reliability as an indicator is the following: If the data is really bad, you virtually always get a rising Euro a few minutes beforehand, but sometimes the Euro also rises before a release which then turns out...

Ok. If bad economic data comes out like today at 10 am, the dollar will probably weaken against the Euro. I have been observing the EUR/USD for months now around the release of ISM data or jobless claims or stuff like that. And whenever such a number is a surprise to the downside, the Euro...

Is that on a 24" monitor?

At least they are trying.

What if I don't trade for the adrenaline rush, but still am a scalper? Would that be acceptable?

What are your worried about Re security? Terrorists hacking into your computer and disrupting the trading process? Unauthorized people getting access to files on your computer? Who has confidential files on any machine running Windows and connected to the internet in any way? As long as you...

There are many factors which contribute to how much the index wiggles in different time frames: Market makers and scalpers need to gross the most because they have the highest expenses. Therefore one will always be able to achieve the highest gross profits by trading the shortest time frame...

So the financial markets are really just a pyramid scheme?

Don't you mean a pade sight?

Am I missing something here? Do the Spoos trade on Saturdays?

My sentiment exactly. Maybe the time has come again where the best will have to move west (to Asia).