How To Change the Email Address in Your Squarespace Contact Form

Added on by C. Maoxian.

First navigate to /config/pages then find your contact page in the left sidebar and click on it. When the page appears in the main window (to the right of the sidebar), hover over the contact form until EDIT appears at the top, then click on EDIT:

Next hover over the top left of the contact form itself until the word FORM appears, then click on the word FORM and a Pen and Trash can appear. Click on the Pen (Edit) and a pop-up will appear to the right of the form.

On the pop-up, there are three tabs: Content, Design, and Storage. Click on the the storage tab to find and change your email notification address:

Hope that helps!

Coding Jesus Explains Order Entry Exploit

Added on by C. Maoxian.

All about gaming the queue, as usual…

Message processing protocol which mitigates optimistic messaging behavior (from 2018)

Adding a one millisecond speed bump foils the cheaters…

Professor David Lariviere

David Lariviere Google Scholar

Pre-matching orders at wire rate in a central limit order book — creating a central limit order book ain’t rocket science. Too bad the US has a spaghetti bowl stock market like some banana republic…

Stock du Jour -- MIRA

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Closed at $0.69 on Friday which means 10 cent halt band hell today… woe to those who shorted the RTH (regular trading hours) ding, double trouble if you shorted the PM (pre-market) ding. 600% mover means no one spared. Hard not to get ZAPPed. Nasty loss.

Patty Boyle Says Pump And Dump Schemes Are Now Legal

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Patty Boyle is a funny guy: “The influencers had ripped jeans, tattoos, McLaren cars, those watches that online scammers always wear, and contrasting facial hair.”

Fraud on the Social Media Market, by Sue S. Guan

By ruling that the victim must have directly surrendered property to the fraudster, any investor who purchased stock in the stock markets on the basis of a fraudster’s misinformation cannot recover. This ignores longstanding tenets of economic theory and contradicts established securities law doctrine. Further, because the structural reality of today’s markets means that nearly every pump and dump using social media will involve investors purchasing stock on the stock market, the ruling would effectively immunize nearly all fraud perpetrated on social media.

SEC Charges Eight Social Media Influencers in $100 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme Promoted on Discord and Twitter, Washington D.C., Dec. 14, 2022

United States of America versus Edward Constantinescu, et al.

Thus, the scheme did not deprive investors of their money or property through any misrepresentation; the misrepresentations deprived them only of accurate information necessary to make discretionary economic decisions.

[Laughable ruling, Texas of course, geez….]

Edward Constantinescu, a.k.a., Eddie Cantaloupe

Extended Hours Trading Hours for the Top 25 Retail Stock Brokers

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Extended hours trading is available at Ally Invest. You may enter pre-market orders between 8:00 am – 9:30 am ET or post-market orders (also called after-hours orders) between 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET. On days when the market closes early, the extended hours trading session runs from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET. You may enter limit orders only. An order placed during an extended hours trading session is only good for that session. If your order is not executed during a specific extended hours session, the order expires at the end of the session and does not roll into the next traditional or extended hours session. You may cancel an order that has not been executed before the close of an extended hours session. For settlement and clearing purposes, orders executed during an extended hours session are considered to have been executed during the day's traditional session. Please refer to the additional disclaimer for extended hours trading.

Currently, we support full extended hours:

Pre-market: 4:00am - 9:30am ET

After-hours: 4:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Pre-Market: Orders can be placed between 8:05 p.m. (previous trading day) and 9:25 a.m. ET and will be eligible for execution between 7:00 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. ET.

After Hours: Orders can be placed and are eligible for execution between 4:05 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET.

eToro offers some US assets for pre-market trading from 06:30 to 09:30 ET and after-market trading from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET via a separate symbol ending in ‘.EXT’.  

Trading during Extended Hours Trading Sessions (including the Pre-Market Session (Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET), the After-Market Session (Monday through Friday 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET), and the Extended Hours Overnight Session (Sunday through Thursday 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. for certain ETFs),

Orders for the premarket session can be placed from 7:00 a.m. to 9:28 a.m. ET. Short sale orders for the premarket are only permitted between 8:00 a.m. and 9:28 a.m. ET. Orders in the after-hours session can be placed from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET. In the event that a market center becomes unavailable during an extended-hours session, Fidelity may submit orders to another eligible and available market center to maintain order flow. Thus, your order may be presented in any one of several market centers.

8 AM - 9:25 AM, 4:05 PM to 8 PM

Outside Regular Trading Hours -- IBKR LITE: 07:00 - 20:00, IBKR PRO 04:00 - 20:00

Not mentioned on website

Lightspeed’s trading hours of operation are 4 AM to 8 PM EST on weekdays only.

Pre-market and after-hours trading is available Monday through Friday on days when the market is open. Pre-market trading is available from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET. After-hours trading is from 4:01 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.

On any day, extended-hours trading may be unavailable, delayed, interrupted or terminated early without prior notice. Extended-hours trading is not available on days the market is closed, preceding a market holiday or if the market is closed due to an emergency. This service is not available for clients using a 10-digit User ID.

Outside of the regular trading hours of 9:30 am to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, investors have the option of making trades in the pre-market hours and the after-hours. The pre-market trades can be made between 4:00 am and 9:30 am Eastern Time, while the after-hours trading session runs from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Eastern Time

  • Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley bought E*TRADE, so see above….

Extended Hours Trading is available from 8:00 a.m. – 9:29:59 a.m. EST and 4:00:01 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST Monday through Friday, excluding market holidays.

Extended hours are 7 AM – 9:30 AM ET and 4–8 PM ET

Extended hours are from 9 AM – 9:30 AM and 4 PM – 8 PM ET Monday to Friday. Only limit orders can be placed during extended hours. Orders placed after 4 PM ET that and not filled by 8 PM ET will be canceled. Trading during extended hours involves greater risk including lower liquidity and greater volatility.

Not mentioned on website.

Currently, the tastytrade pre-market session opens at 8:00am ET and runs until 9:30am ET, while the post-market session (aka “after-hours session”) runs from 4:00pm ET to 8:00pm ET.

Charles Schwab bought TD Ameritrade, so see above…

The following sessions are available:

Regular Session Hours - 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Eastern

Pre Market Hours - 8:00 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. Eastern

Post Market Hours - 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Eastern

Equities trading on all exchanges, between 4:00 AM ET to 7:00 AM ET; $0.005 per share.

Equities trading less than $1.00, between 7:00 AM ET to 8:00 PM ET; $0.005 per share; minimum $0.99, maximum $7.95 charge per trade.*

  • Vanguard

Not mentioned on website.

4 AM ET - 8 PM ET

In addition to regular trading hours, trade eligible stocks and ETFs from 4:01 p.m. ET to 6:30 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday in an active, real-time, after-hours trading session on the Wells Fargo Mobile® app. Extended Hours Trading has unique risks and may not be appropriate for all investors. Review the Online Extended Hours Trading Risk Disclosures prior to trading after-hours.

Not mentioned on website.

Honest Reviews of Martin Scorcese's Terrible Movie, "The Departed"

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From Rick Groen: “Rumour had it that the source material - a rejigging of the tense Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs - was ideal for [Scorcese], a return to the mean streets and mobsters of his glory days. Rumour had it that the cast, including Jack Nicholson in his first teaming with the director, was exceptional. Rumour had it that God was in His heaven and Martin Scorsese was back on track. Rumour was wrong … Scorsese has been doing some channelling too - of Tarantino on a really off-day … As so often before, the body count is high in a Martin Scorsese movie. But where once the bodies pulsated with life in all its vainglorious furor, here they drop like wooden ducks in an artificial pond.”

From Stanley Kauffmann: “William Monahan’s screenplay is so full of cryptic pronouncements and swift portentous scenes that neatness is blown away … But [Sorcese’s] film is so frantic with plot jabs and counter jabs that the gravity of the theme is blurred in cop-and-criminal sorties. Even Scorsese’s usually gleaming direction is dulled to the Law & Order level, except for a few of his famous traveling shots … Jack Nicholson… virtually repeats his Joker in Batman … Is Scorsese desperate? This screenplay has the scent of it, as if he is scraping for material to feed his basic filmic interests. But the risk in this case—not evaded—was that his need led him close to painful strain. I can’t remember another Scorsese moment as shockingly banal as the finishing touch here. We look out the window of the stooge’s luxe apartment, past his terrace. Then a rat comes out and plays on the terrace railing.” [Yeah, I laughed out loud then.]

From Christopher Orr: “A remake of the sleek, superb 2002 Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs, the movie has been Nicholsonized across the board, becoming fatter, coarser, and more self-indulgent than the original.”

From The Standard: “Being a Scorsese fan these days is like sitting at the bedside of someone on a life support machine. As each new offering appears we look, desperately, for signs of animation. Sad news, my friends. On the evidence of The Departed, it's time to pull the plug … scriptwriter Bill Monahan (fresh from the yawn-fest that was Kingdom of Heaven) fails to do anything interesting with the characters in the second half … As in his remake of Cape Fear, Scorsese has mucked up a B-movie he professes to love: producing something full of twists but devoid of that lovely, fluttery, rare thing: surprise.”