It's one of the following:

1. Your bid is hidden and is thus not displayed in the NBBO information.

2. You didn't submit your order for some reason or your order was rejected.

3. The site displaying the NBBO information is delayed and/or incorrect.

4. You've already been completely or partially filled.

There is thread on this. Too lazy to find it for you but if you search you should be able to locate it. I think it is a year or so old.

This makes me laugh because I found this thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...ng-atm-488281/

Third reply?

Well im fairly sure its not 2 3 or 4. What does hidden mean precisely? Why would a bid be hidden?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/30...estors-778869/

I think that might be the topic I was thinking of. My concept of time is a little off.

i think i speak for everyone when i say that i would like to hear more stories involving your crazy friend.

what businesses does he own? what's his wife like? does he have children? what are some of his hobbies?

that should point you in the right direction.

I want to hear about businesses started and sold by Crazy Friend.

+1

He can help us get rich quick! It's so easy even a moron can do it!

I doubt I'll post enough info to keep his business stories interesting. In recent history (last 15 years)

Sold a medium sized PI agency. Started and ran a fairly large collection agency, later selling it for 7-figs (that actually lasted him a while). When he was broke again, he started into .com, largely revolving around premium domain sales. More recently he's been developing and selling turn-key .coms that are well ranked on Google but with little to no revenue. You would likely not have heard of a single website/domain he has sold, and I am not going to post any URLs for privacy reason.

His collection agency was large enough to be featured in a few different collection related magazines of the time.

hard to beleiev but shawn hannity is doing commercials on his show for work at home xchemes..............lol.

kinda lessens his credibility a bit!

Am I the only one who think this forum has deteriorated into a big trollfest and that Arturius is feeding this by being one of the biggest trolls?

Was going to post this in ATF but would like some opinions from some regulars first. Sucks that you can't post any questions here now w/out 80% of the replies being trolling nonsense...

can you please link some examples?

i always try to give reasonable feedback and i think there are others that do too.

You just responded to two flagrant examples in the Pandora thread.

In my 'where to park cash' thread I got 90% trolling.

I did a search of art's recent posting history and most of his posts seems to be one liner insults/troll posts in this forum.

People who post more here are in a better position to comment on this but seems like the quality of posts is going down leaning toward trolling and trolling is being accepted when it really shouldn't be. This forum is obv going to attract a lot of young people who just came into money and trolling the **** out of their possibly dumbish question seems counter to the spirit of this forums purpose.

The biggest trolling I see on this forum are people attacking other with substantiating anything.

In your case, if you'd like to show me some posts that you disagree with so I can see what you're talking about, feel free.

ps: There is absolutely no way this board has more trolls now than 2008.

yeah, i don't disagree with what you are saying.

only thing we can do is lead by example. just try to conduct yourself in a way that's consistent with what you'd like to see from others. hopefully some other people will read this and do the same. i think this is a very good forum as it is but it could certainly be better.

edit: was responding to HC's posts. art, go through and look at your recent posts. there's nothing blatantly horrible but your overall tone leaves a bit to be desired AS A MOD imo. just my opinion, i would never have opined had someone else not said something.

Are my posts too brief or too apathetic in tone?

I don't know, I'm not the most enthusiastic poster, but I looked through 5 pages of my posts and don't really see anything outline. I have a different posting style, but I'm always willing to discuss and put as much time in to it as the other guy discussing it.

fwiw the sample size of posts I'm referring to is small. I'm not a reg here and I could be wrong, thats why I posted here instead of ATF.

I recently made TA a 15% stake in my portfolio. Just want it on the record. I think they are undervalued, have good momentum and will report a good Q4 in a few weeks. I think it's roughly worth 6x 2011 EBITDA of 60-80mm resulting in a $20 share price+.

fwiw i tend to feel like the general vibe in this forum isn't really to be supportive/helpful but moreso to try to pick holes in peoples ideas/plans or jump through lots of hoops trying to discredit people or shoot someone down. for example the boards really got active/motivated when trying to ferret out WallstreetPro. nothing wrong with busting a fraud but it just feels to me like people really get off on shooting down ideas.

really sorta just feels like BFI is a contest in who has mastered the rhetoric of posting about business/finance rather than people going out and actually doing stuff, like keyboard jockeying.

1) It's much easier to be critical than supportive
2) Looking at reasons why you will fail is more helpful than looking at reasons why you will succeed. If you do not address points of failure it doesn't matter how good your success potential is.

Sounds like he's growing something.

Haha excellent read

Can someone give me a referral to an Adwords expert? I thought I had someone, but he flaked.

I'm a tax accountant, so I don't have the time to research how to improve my campaign performance.

Thanks.

lol that would actually be more believable than some of the .coms he's been able to sell.