Very good. Outstanding. The first category... You are exactly correct. Any program related to economics or business... Or any courses...
The beautiful thing about trading... Is that one can chose the level of variance... In contrast to poker... Where high variance (luck factor)...
"Stupid Quants" is the theme of this thread... If you had bothered to read it. Sorry that you took a big hit this summer... And that it's all...
If you actually trade stock in volume... Say millions of shares/month... Then your annual IB fees might run into 6 figures... And a $5/day...
Great textbook analysis... But world class traders operate well beyond the textbooks. All the events I mentioned were different... But each...
A serious trading firm doing 1000s of trades/day... With capital into 7 figures and up... Would use FIX to completely replace the very limited...
Actually... That's not the way it would work. There are 2 main things that keep operations "secret": (1) Iron-clad non-disclosure...
If you are really that paranoid... And your trading business has real value... Then you would just get a dedicated line... ISDN or other...
The market is not rigged... It's just a random system... (Except for RAMPANT insider trading)... And no one can predict anything. The...
If you trade millions of shares/month... It's all about fees and maybe Stock Loan. Nothing else matters. Most serious trading firms that...
IB has a long-standing policy... Of constantly releasing software... that is not properly beta tested. They also have a policy... Of LYING to...
The idea that last summer's credit crunch... Was a 25 SD event... is idiotic. These panics happen every 2-3 years... Russian crisis in...
I see this a lot with obscure startups... These guys have near ZERO traffic:...
"Quant" is now officially a meaningless term... Just like "hedge fund". The fact is... That any market-neutral fund... That quantitatively...
My understanding is that "unbundled commissions" = Flat IB Fee + 3rd Party Charges. The Flat IB Fee goes down with volume... 3rd Party Charges...
(1) IB paper trading is meant to learn basics... not back-test strategies. (2) I wouldn't use even IB's live data for anything... They won't...
NO. There is a popular misconception... That a trader becomes successful when he "finds a strategy". Why is this FALSE? Because... Any...
It's becoming clear that you do this... But it's more than "marking"... You are constantly cancel/replacing orders... According to the OP....
Yes... DDE is 20 year old technology... And it was crap the day it was released... But an amazing number of, even high end, quote...
You are misinformed... They actually handed out cyanide capsules.
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