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if we were to take the scattered accounts of the ppt's interventions at face value, using futures to support the market when short interest is highest... is it technically legal to artificially target and disadvantage the short side of the market to maximize the effect of the intervention...

lol fox news. weren't they also outright lying in their Foley headlines? starting to look like a pattern

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700789

i see the semantic issue with the word firm. the fact is, the 100 share NYSE quotes advertised on my screen portray themselves as legitimate bids and offers at which i can trade, but they're not it's a shameless and devious way to run a business, but they do it. they're only a few blocks...

very good to know guys, thanks for the excellent details jim are there any instances where 100 share quotes on the NYSE or AMEX are firm? i don't think i've ever gotten the shares when 100 are bid or offered. maybe once or twice after calling it in mrmoose in this particular case the...

towards the end of the day i smart routed an opening order to add 100 shares to an existing short as limit at the current inside bid which was showing 100 shares (i believe at the nyse). the stock was an etf that doesn't require downtick and the order went immediately green. the quote was not...

i IB smart routed an etf marketable limit order that sat marketable for 20 secs without getting filled before the mkt ran away, and the trade desk couldn't explain why the anomalous route to inet instead of to the nbbo robbed of 100 bucks on a day when there was too much going on to chase it...

wow that's nasty. i used to live right around the corner and eat there occasionally too. always jumping over rats to get around the neighborhood at night there's obviously an adequate supply of exposed and discarded food. ...a city like rome with a cat infestation... do they have rats?

i didn't realize public education was a socialist handout

anyone know where IB's 1099 div and 1099 misc are? I see this special dividends report but I'm not seeing comms anywhere

imo iran's token gesture against the dollar probably has almost no impact. wouldn't you agree that bush's unprecedented spending acceleration and helicopter liquidity policy have broken the camel's back if anything has

i'd really also like access to a record of all bulletins time and date stamped to study the effects of these outages. sometimes i've been away from the machine and see the amex or cbot is back online, and want to know when exactly it went down, but can't find out. how do we access past bulletins

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the tax arguments against the 16th ammendment seem questionable to me, but the creation of the fed was clearly against the best interests of the american ppl the good news is we'll probably see the end of the federal reserve in our lifetimes, maybe much sooner than later

good time for a nyse/amex/cbot outage

lol thx

ok, we have a btrade outage as ER is at 814.50. can we get a NYSE, AMEX or CBOT next...

i've been holding steady on doing the same, very close to playing there again also. interesting to see GS downgraded NMX today, somewhat coincident with the turn in the commods this morning

seems just about time for an exchange outage. maybe a few points down from here, perhaps 815ish on the russell

not sure why i'm understating it, probably because there are a littany of reasons this market 'should' be down, but hasn't been