It's pretty silly to define "Middle-class" based on income. The difference between being middle-class and being rich is more about how much money...
Sux to be him, but great for most of the rest of us, who don't get to be paid 65k a year for doing unskilled labor, because now we get to buy...
wow...I don't know anything about prop trading, but if what you say is true, there is no doubt in my mind that you'll be successful no matter what...
Back-testing equity options strategies using the closing B/A spread, just doesn't work as well as you'd tend to think. Some of the reasons are...
I've purchased several times through Blue Nile. Never had a bad experience. Most of what I've bought through them have been small diamonds and...
What would you consider to be a "large account" in this context?
Doesn't IB charge a fee for cancellations and modifications to options orders? I think that would be a problem for any automated system.
I think that one of the things that might be underlying the fundamental changes in the markets this past year is the quants themselves. The...
I LOL'd. :D
It seems to me that viscosity would be more analogous to some sort of liquidity measure rather than a volatility measure such as ATR. What is the...
OK, I just updated TWS on my Vista 64 machine. The "annoyance" with the install, is that the shortcut points to the wrong place. You can change...
there are some annoyances with getting it to install correctly. Unfortunately I don't remember what they are.
Just a guess, as I have no experience with pairs-trading, but the obvious thing to try is to trade the pair towards mean reversion on days your...
It might be your GUI updates. GDI+ is kind of slow. Your output looks like you are only updating the GUI once a second....but you should fish...
Ask him if there are any books he recommends.
You can make it very fast to query the time series data with proper indexing, but my experience is that this can make updates extremely slow once...
I experimented with some simple neural network models a few years back, using data series ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand...
The problem with IT is that much of it is basically relatively low-skilled labor, little different than assembling a widget in a factory. We've...
Who says a fly has to be neutral? It can be a directional strategy.
I'll add my vote for "heat related". Every time I've had this problem with a computer it had to do with over-heating.
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