Replies to post #127866 on ajtj99's Market Pulse

[ItsAllCyclical]

I looked into IB and didn't find their commissions that cheap - especially for bigger trades. If you have a bigger account most of the discount brokers will give you breaks. IB wasn't willing, but I got a very good break w/Ameritrade. Fidelity is by far the worst w/customer service and website. They fared the worst this morn as well. FWIW.

I like Ameritrade as they have no banking exposure. E*Trade still has home equity exposure so I only have 2 small accounts there, but dispite the gripping found them reasonable to work with and the website was decent on heavy volume days.

[skier31]

What can be done about a trade not going through? I put in a sell order last night, it traded $2.42 higher than my ask today. It never went through. The ticker is USD, which is a semiconductor ETF. I use TDAmeritrade... Is that the problem?

[See Shasta]

Thanks, aj, I'll do some investigating this coming week.

It seems that Tradestation is more for the seriously enlightened trader then?

[libbyt]

Does anyone have the "Cliff notes version" of what are the new rules to the market today? (a URL link to the exact new rules?)

Am I correct that there are 799 stocks that can't be shorted, but shorting on other stocks is allowed?

Also...on Monday, hedge funds need to report their short positions? Wouldn't this cause short squeezes like were seen during the dot.com period of the market?

I realize that there is short covering in the financial stocks today but won't disclosure of hedge fund short positions also cause a short covering squeeze in various stocks once these positions are disclosed?