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    ML(merrill lynch) pro tradespeed plateform how good?

    Yes you can take as many symbols as you like from excel just highlight all of them and copy and paste into the Personal stock sorter window with one motion - all your symbols will populate - then highlight the symbols once they are in the stock sorter and right click - this will open a basket...
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    ML(merrill lynch) pro tradespeed plateform how good?

    Not sure what you mean by firing orders using VB/Excel - all the execution and trade history windows are easily exportable to excel. There is a window called personal stock sorter that acts as a stock ticker window that you could trade from - either in baskets or indivdual stocks. The personal...
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    ML(merrill lynch) pro tradespeed plateform how good?

    prehistoric disaster??- Thats a gross exaggeration. Obviously this is someone posting who does not use TradeSpeed. TradeSpeed is a sophisticated software that is a Merril Lynch Product with alot of resources pumped into it - If anyone has doubts they should demo the software. I have been...
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    Shorting on downticks (3/16/05)

    The purpose of buying a PUT is to be in a position where you are short the stock as close as possible to the trading price of the underlying stock. A regular PUT will not get your price close enough to the actuall trading price of the stock as a deep in the money PUT will. If you buy a regular...
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    Funniest thing ever seen at a prop firm

    We would have a contest in the office who can hit the delivery guy the most times with a nerf ball. Rule was you can only hit someone elses delivery guy--not your own. We would tally up points and the winner would have the lossers tip his delivery guy all the following week. Everyone pretty...
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    Shorting on downticks (3/16/05)

    LOL..I think its you who is smoking the "nice weed" you misunderstood ...NOT Out of the money Put's (ootm) ----DEEP in the money PUTS. You buy a deep in the money PUT that is so deep in the money that there is no bid for the call. Then you subtract the PUT premuim from the strike price...
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    Shorting on downticks (3/16/05)

    IF a trader has access to options he can buy a PUT and get filled instantenously on it. The best PUT to buy to get your short price as close as possible to the last trade price is a deep in the money put with the strike price as close to where the stock is trading as possible. So by going to...
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    NYSE Traders

    I think Nxing should be illegal. Selling short on a downtick on the NYSE has not been a problem at my firm ---in fact it has only gotten easier because so few firms allow their traders to do it. The way I do it is simply by buying a deep in the money PUT-this gets me short and i cover by...
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