Fair enough, given the shops he's looking at. But I suspect even at those firms some of their top traders are now automated and not in the office...
So my point didn't apply if my analogy is bad?
Dear CEO of Coca Cola, I really want to become successful in the soft drink industry. I'd like your secret recipe, I'd be willing to give you a...
Don't your 2 paragraphs contradict themselves? You ended up making the case that it was a matter of leverage and reserves and more strict...
People seem to have a hard time understanding that it was the leverage not the bad loans that put us in the situation we are in. Make enough bad...
When you generate an order and a Client order ID for it you need to save that ID somewhere for use later. This somewhere is called a variable....
Apology accepted. WarEagle was spot on. You've taken your latency issues as far as you need to if you are manual trading. As long as your...
I gave a serious reply. But your response lost you any chance for elaboration.
Have you run a ping test between your brain and your keyboard?
I agree with your assessment that Eric's "sample" is biased because he hangs out with people who have similar personalities. However, I know...
Excel DDE is slow, you may not be happy with its performance. I do not run completely automated in Excel, though I use it at time for lots of...
When you stop being humble you stop looking for the next landmine you might step on. When you stop being thrifty you might not survive the next...
Sandybestdog, You might find this helpful, a step by step guide to writing programs in VB.net 2008....
I just moved to a new house and redid my office setup from scratch. A friend turned me on to this and I am happy with it. A bit on the spendy side...
That wasn't me offering you the code sample with those things, but they are things you would benefit from learning about. So now it's sinking in...
All I'm doing is offering you advice to get you where you want to go more quickly and without blowing yourself up. Sorry if I offended you.
No, just doing it isn't always the best way to learn something. Would you learn how to defuse bombs by just doing it? How about surgery? Our...
So if a guy standing next to an open can of gasoline asks YOU for help learning to light matches would you just help him or warn him he's standing...
I have no idea, it might be something specific to the basket trader itself, which I've never used. I haven't seen the example you are referring to...
Look dude, there's a big difference between being skeptical and SH*TTING all over an otherwise civil discussion. Hopefully some day you'll...
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