Here is an interesting article on trading psychology in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44595-2003Oct18.html
Here is a snippet from this weeks Barron's article: "Surf's Up" ranking of best web sites by category. The categories were bonds, chat/message...
Its not about professional or amateur, its about stealing. Its like an accountant who works for a large company with a lot of employees who...
You have done a lot for this industry, Don. But you are a NYSE member, no? Don't members have a vested interest in keeping things the way...
You have got to be kidding me. You assume that everyone who buys a listed stock is a professional? NYSE is self-regulating in order to avoid...
The thing is Don, the NYSE imposed their rules on themselves and used them to justify their antiquated open outcry system, time delay and wider...
I can't help but thinking that if a blue collar butcher were caught resting his thumb on the scale when he weighed someones meat - he would get...
Excerpt from a NY Times article. Read the last part how they gamed their system in order to screw customers:...
The Bright Bros. probably have pictures of SEC Donaldson in some Las Vegas area cat house. They will single handedly preserve the specialist...
Looks like even mightly Fidelity is scared of these guys. (hey, there are no new icons on this page. I was going to select the "red face" at...
The pit can't compete, but it can obstruct. (think I'll try one of these new icons) Here is part of an article by the Financial Times...
Lot of buzz on the specialist system on CNBC and WSJ today. They even had a little poll on it...
The market is at an inflection point that it is trying to break through, switching from a bearish market that turns down at cyclic resistance to a...
Hank Greenberg is the eminent "Dean" of wall street. If he says that the specialist system gots to go - then it gots to go! Regardless of...
a milk crate or an old tree stump
You could sell ad space to the ecns in a specialist rating section
How about a section on the home page for rating NYSE specialists? Like your brokerage, book and software ratings.
On the Elite main web page there are sections for: "Latest Broker Ratings" "Newest Software Reviews" "Most Recent Book Review"...
Part of an interesting article from Barron's on how pension funds are allocating more money to commodities....
Thats a start, but to carry any weight it would be better for a rating to be done by an association or magazine.
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