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I don't think that would happen. Usually the margin call process is: they recalculate the equity value once a day only: overnight. If you buy some stocks on margin and the equity falls below their maintenance threshold, that will trigger a margin call. Your broker will call you, e-mail...

Can you consider it a crash because Dow didn't close down 1000 points? The close was only -347 though for 10 minutes it was near -1000.

Some crazy thing (suspected program trading) drove the S&P futures to -100 to 1056 in a matter of 5 minutes. Then the market bounced back up.

Not sure. I didn't notice any but for my purpose such a lag would not be important or noticed.

This weekend I bought a couple of these: SIIG USB-to-VGA adapters $39.95 at Fry's. Seemed to work okay. SIIG works in Windows 7. Somehow I couldn't get the Diamond USB Display Adapter to work in Win 7, even after I downloaded their new driver from their website. Anyway... $40...

I apologize, Mark. Now I went back and re-read your earlier post. The edition of quote was for the intent of saving bandwidth. Not for cherry-picking to illustrate a point. I have seen many, many quotes of an entire earlier passage just to say "yes" or "I agree" or other one liner...

A simple definition of a trend is "higher high and higher low" (up) and "lower high and lower low" (down). Tick charts are highly co-related to time charts. Depending on the instrument you trade, for stocks you typically see 100, 200, 500 (shares) or so per tick even for order fills of...

These returns are extremely impressive. Even though you said you are "small", by being less than 1 million. Unless it is one thousand dollars or else one can live off very comfortably with your kind of performance.

>>> Do you like it? Yes. Very much. Distance to commute to work: 10 feets instead of 30 miles. >>> Do you interact with other people (ie...telephone, chat room, etc...) during trading hours? No. Except calling my brokers when things go wrong or to ask questions. Other people (that...

I don't know if you, Mark, cited the OP's statement by agreeing with him (presumed) "The Expert" or you just said it sarcastically. I find these kinds of blanket statements all bull craps. If you have read "Fooled By Randomness"... this is like saying without qualification, that "All swans...

I saw a similar article on the web. I don't have a "wandering mouse cursor" issue but my mouse cursor is too slow. I was hoping maybe I can improve the performance. But I can't find the "Advanced Settings" tab that you mentioned. Where does this tab show up?

SWAS: Sorry for the late reply. Just saw this. With my trading volume, I am paying $3.50 flat fee per trade regardless of size. And I typically hit 1k shares to 2k shares at a time. With the ECN fee of 0.3 cents a share (sorry for the earlier typo but I figured that you would notice)...

The card you showed is a PCIe X16 video card. The motherboard you showed has 1 PCIe X16 slot, and 1 PCIe X8 slot. If you buy another one of the same card from EVGA, it may not work on the PCIe X8 slot... that I am not sure. If that doesn't work, perhaps try getting an EVGA card for the PCI...

I don't think this device would work. CCapman said his TV has a yellow connector, which is a composite video connector not a RGB component video connector. ("RCA" is the name of the connector form not the signal type it carries.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video On the other...

SWAS it may not necessarily help to have as many routes as possible, depending on how you trade. I trade highly volatile stocks (such as AAPL and GS and FAS) intraday. My need is fast execution. I don't have time to hunt around different places for the "best deal". One or two cent, or even...

May be hard. It sounds like you have the RCA connector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector The yellow is the video and the red is audio (mono). Most video cards nowadays won't provide the RCA output. Unless you can find some older video cards. The other issue is resolution...

I use MasterTrader/RealTick for about 2 years now. Memory serves... outage experience had only been two times in the past 2 years. (Survived the chaotic market in Sep 2008 fairly well.) I consider their platform/linkage very robust. Commission rate is negotiable based on the actual trade...

You can also go through Google to search with the string: site:elitetrader.com keyword1 keyword2 "exact phrase number one" "exact phrase number two" This way you have the Google search features at your disposal.

Stocks can be shorted for many reasons. But saying something like: I think XXXXXXXX has come too far too fast. So... I short it. This is a newbie's game. A $15 overnight gap from the earning release. Get a hang of it yet? How about today's $6 to $7 run up. All in 2 hours...

I love CyberTrader. Until Schwab bought them out and turned their software into crap. I use RealTick for my trading now. It is non-java base. One needs to download the platform and run the app locally. Fast, robust. The drawback is the platform fee is expensive unless you have enough...