RE: RE: Level 2 still prettyNo, I have level-2 thru my trading account, it's free but you have to have a certain $$$ balance.
Without level-2, you miss any large bids in the queue on both sides, no way to know the support or the ceiling, so a lot of investors just sell "at market" esp. if they're paying alot for commissions, they'd want to make sure their order fills. That's the way I trading when I was a newbie, never again though.