I had a coach in high school that used to say anger is one letter short of danger...
Yep, last share I traded was June 30th 2012. I used to be one of those big bad HFT guys... now all I do is enable HFT guys to steal. Take it...
it's been a while but last I checked it was 100ms snapshot data so it isn't a pure whole-market data feed and it could be as fast as current all...
Why ask online? Why not just give your broker a 5minute phone call and ask them what the rules are - or call the CME?? Your thread title says...
Typical zerohedge BS. The "Guest Poster"... Who was his broker/platform? Is he/she retail, prop or institutional? How was his/her order...
+1 Just turn it on and let it run. You need to budget a few thousand to draw down initially while you test/tweak but that's the cost of...
Here is a crash course in Intel - Xeon = multiple processors, non Xeon (like i7, i5, etc.) will only work by itself. If you are buying that...
As an FYI, The E8500 CPU is selling for over $50 on eBay and the E8300 CPU is selling for just under $50. These machines are probably worth...
How large (dollar value) is your account? If you are up over $100k that's one thing. If you will be under $100k after you consolidate all of your...
This is what I do.
Never.
You don't need to make a dime to be a trader - as a matter of fact you could lose a lot of money and still be a trader.
I should probably send you this via PM vs. here but: There is no difference between the two. Either you get it and can build a compuer/server...
Either pay up to go virtual (higher monthly cost but lower up-front cost) or just build a decent desktop (cheap desktop) and go from there....
Is that a sales pitch???
But even still a market order will give you much more slippage and you'll get dinged a penny or two on every entry and exit... :confused:
RAMDISK can be much faster than SSD but again, it seems that your weak link is software not hardware. That Matlab + Excel combo is really slow...
Look at all open orders as the portfolio vs. all open positions. When you make markets across multiple securities you can also assign risk...
Jack, No idea what securities you are trading but in the equity world market orders are allowed to be held up for a period of time prior to...
Correct, Ergotron does make a setup that's a 4-wide contraption and essentially it's just two base stands, two upright poles and a giant set of...
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