"Then I found the possibility to create a whole spreadsheet for all the stocks I owned and see quotes in realtime. I hijacked their beta test pages, they must have been scratching their heads wondering how all the penny stocks showed up.... "
Geez, you were busy back in the day :-D
"...this was 1998 when people spent their time on freerealtime.com hitting refresh every 2 seconds..."
Man- you bringing back all kinds of memories. You're right tho- THAT was a big deal- otherwise it was 20 minute delay for quotes. Scottrade had a deal where for every trade you made, you got like 10 "free" real-time quotes which you had to call their automated line with a touchtone phone (which took forever) to use...
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