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That's great because the bottleneck for my software has always been drawing text and bar/line charts! Awesome!

Great stories. Appreciate it. Biggest loss in a day: just under 30k on an ETF play which had a basically unannounced > $10 dividend overnight and I didn't realize it (I got long in pre-market trading). By the time I understood what was going on and tried to bust my trades, the exchanges said...

A few years ago I tried out the Nxcore trial and found that reading the quote stream from C# (using the Nxcore supplied code) was almost an order of magnitude slower than doing the same in C/C++.

But it is not a technical problem. It is a policy decision made by IB so that in certain stituations you can't put in orders at the price you want to unless they deem it to be "acceptable." It is as if IB deems you too stupid to understand what your limit price means and is attempting to save...

I've run into this problem and I agree with you. It's complete BS and IB refused to do anything about it no matter how much I complained. Fortunately, it only happens once in a blue moon for me, otherwise I would be forced to leave IB. But when it happens it is probably one of the most f**cking...

SEC has done nothing good for the retail investor for the last decade plus (ever since I've been trading). They always screw the little guy with their stupid ass rules and regulations. I'm sure glad part of my trading fees goes to keep this incompetent organization alive so that they can do more...

After being charged a fee without notice by a regional bank, and after exhausting the complaint process at the bank, I contacted the BBB about it. Got the fee back but didn't want to close the case until the bank changed its notification policies. BBB closed the complaint without my approval and...

Why did you need four of them?

Wow! The SEC really on the ball! Missed the Madoff thing but man they sure nailed this big-time player! Missed the entire financial meltdown too but I'm sure they'll nail Martha Stewart again shortly! Way to go!

What's wrong with deflation? I don't know about you, but I like lower prices.

This quote pretty much says everything you need to know about Icahn:

Wait, you mean we can't just print money ad infinitum and expect no consequences? SHOCKING.

And what does SAC have to do with this?

Maybe if you presented your arguments in a non-pretentious way, you would get more credence. But no, you insist on glamorizing everything and talking about taking advantage of grandmothers. So, wait a second, you are taking credit for SAC now? I just want to make sure how far you will go to...

And what does this have to do with SAC?

Now wait a second. Sure SAC is coming under SEC scrutiny. But nowhere does it ever mention *anything* about naked short selling being an issue. The issue has always been insider trading. And that is not the same thing at all. Flytiger has ranted on this topic for many many years now, talking...

My "password life" changed as soon as I started using KeePass. Now I don't care how long my passwords are because forms are auto-filled from the KeePass database. You just have to make sure your master database password is long enough/secure enough to be uncrackable.

This probably won't help at all but I'll throw it out there anyway. Sometimes if you pull up quotes for a security for all possible destinations (choose Direct and not Smart when you pull up a quote line and then select all destinations), you will see a stale quote coming from one of the...

Just a gut feeling, but allowing directed orders at the same commission as SMART orders would probably force IB to raise commissions for all orders.

I believe the SMART routing reduces costs to IB because if it has a choice of where to route, it will route to the least expensive center. If you choose to use SMART routing, then they choose to pass some of those savings to you. Or at least I think that is the general idea.