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FWIW, both the initial page with the jscript hack and the exe that you eventually download will alert on various antivirus programs (using virustotal.com), but not ZoneAlarm, which uses CA's AV platform.

WARNING: Sites mentioned in this post are potentially dangerous. Do not go to them if you're not prepared to handle the consequences Cleaning up some old bookmarks, I attempted to go to "www . scmagic . com", which used to have stuff related to converting to/from Sierra Charts files. This...

Of course it can matter where the orders are routed. PACX used to be the worst for these odd-lot fills, while CBOE never did. At the time, there were better incentives for some brokers to route to PACX as I recall. Also, it seemed to be when I improved the market to the NBBO on PACX, since there...

Quote from Option Trader: As an alternative, maybe it's not the broker, but MM's or specialists selling options who can identify you as a retail client of whatever brokerage, and want you to "give up" your place in line. MMs rarely will hit/take a retail order that is resting on the...

I would buy that argument if there were such a thing as a single-site browser, which disallowed people from going to (the thousands of) other sites for their chitchat needs. AFAIK, nobody has a browser that is restricted in this way. I would also buy it if we were dealing with raising...

Quote from Moreagr: I would like to auto calculate over 400 tickers with at least 20 data cells for each ticker real time.. which language or software plug -ins could be suitable for this? could VB6 with excel handle this or would i need a more powerful language like C++... to handle all...

It's really not huge in the current environment of bloated libraries and the nature of Windows' memory model. This isn't the place for, and I'm not qualified to explain, the nature of this model. Sun and ORA do a decent job of explaining the Java memory model, and many publishers, including...

Wow - lots of "Others". Guess I missed someone important. Perhaps those that voted Other could post with the names of their brokers. Just the names please - I don't want to get banned for encouraging advertising :(

In trading, a "confirmed cancel" is generally considered to be stronger than any other type of order status, even a fill. If they gave you an out, and refuse to honor it, don't let them get away with it. File a complaint with CFTC if you have to.

Glad you got something fixed. Do you ever actually get a fill on the ECNs pre-market? If so, is it favorable (i.e. do you wish you had waited for the AMEX open)? If not, why not skip SMART altogether and route to AMEX directly?

Quote from Steelhead: tell me how you like ... ARCA 24 ISLD 22 BRUT 18 NYS 20 all day long? What does this mean?

Haven't had one of these in a while, so... With which retail broker do you do the bulk of your trading? Retail (i.e. non-proprietary) traders only please. Sorry - not enough room for futures-focused/-only firms.

Do you want Chit Chat, Politics/Religion, and similar forums on ET?

There are other things besides heap that use memory. Heap is just the largest of them in this case. Probably leave yourself another 30Mb (+/- 20 Mb) headroom in addition to heap for total memory usage. It also gets more complicated since some of that VM space is not actually "dirty" and can be...

That's a good reason to stick with single-contract-minimum brokers. Historically, option brokers only charged you one minimum ticket fee per instrument per day, no matter how many modify/partial/CxR/etc. you did. Waterhouse was like this even through the mid 90s.

I'm sure they'll fix it now that it's been verified to be wrong. If the page is not dynamically generated, it may disappear altogether, or a note may be put on it to indicate the date as of which it is accurate. If the page is dynamically generated, it will probably disappear until someone...

Quote from frostengine: Is the code in say medved quote tracker open source? No, its hidden.... Jerry Medved, however, is a well-known and respected guy, and the product is so widely used, there's some "safety in numbers" feeling. what about the free charting program I was using the other...

Also www.interactivebrokers.com and www.mytrack.com support many worldwide markets. At the higher end, there are things like Bloomberg, Reuters, Thompson/ILX (?), etc.

Quote from dcraig: There are actually two garbage collectors. It seems that the one that releases memory back to the OS (ie calls free () or sbrk ()) is called MarkSweepCompact. It defragments the heap. It is 'expensive' to run, so is rarely called. But if the memory requirements of the...

It looks like the same problem exists in the logic to bring in the regulatory fees. Should be the lesser value. I'd suggest you ignore the comparison table until it gets fixed, and simply put together the unbundled fees on your own if it really matters. The unbundled fee to day-trade (i.e. no...