What is the fastest stock trading platform that I can?

E.g., I will be trading penny stocks (- stocks), so I need to be able to if not instantly, very quickly buy and sell shares of a company.

Suggestions?
I realize the risk, and I also realize that cost per trade isn’t a big issue when you deal with 1000+ shares at a time, so don’t feed me that. Anyways, I hear Lightspeed is pretty good. Anybody know of it/use it?

I am a shareholder for a company going through an acquisition and am unsure how the sale of my shares should be accounted for to the IRS and my personal tax consequences.

I originally bought the shares for five years ago. I am selling the shares and will be paid cash amounting to /share upon purchase. However, as part of the purchase agreement for the next two years I will be given a /share at the end of each successive calendar year – for a total of /share.

My understanding is I would have a capital gains of /share ( minus ) this year. Each of the following years I would have a capital gain of /share ( minus {content}). Is my logic correct here? Can you have a basis of {content} or is that going to start setting off (audit) flags. I would sincerely hope to not have to show a capital gain for the full amount as I perceive a non-trivial amount of risk to the future payments as it is predicated on company’s positive cash flow. Any help would be appreciated.

May be a dumb investment, but most of us cannot afford to buy stocks, seemed like a good time to take a risk with only 0 invested.
They are making a ‘for sale’ list to sell off divisions, repay loan ASAP. Will this help or hurt them on Wall Street? Should I buy more stock? My bills are current, $$ only collecting 3% interest in savings.
All the fallout right now is actually good for us rookies, even Microsoft is in our price range now. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.