Wow - that's a charming way to ask for help or advice.
I bought 4 small step-stool, each about 18 inches tall. I think it's close to this:...
I have had a treadmill in stead of a chair for over a year now. It's fantastic. I just raised my desk, and didn't buy a special treadmill desk.
I think it's worth studying the material tradingmarkets puts out. Especially, material by Larry Conners. While it appears simplistic, Conners has...
I've used Eclipse for the last several years. Works very well.
The Expos are great fun and a good excuse to meet up with friends. I haven't had the opportunity to go the last two years, but I'm working on it...
Possible "yes"; Likely "no". Everyone I know that's successful in trading works extremely hard, questions everything every day, are comfortable...
The nook is a great Android device. Just install Cyanogen on it, add the nook reader if you're using it, and run the Android web of TWS. I...
Somewhat to my surprise McAfee and Norton have come off clean on two Windows 7 systems. For my core trading systems, I now use Microsoft...
I've been wanting to take some time to study possible uses of map reduce, but have never gotten around to it. Sounds like a powerful setup.
Mem mapped files are also a good choice. One just has to factor in the cost of the I/O interfaces and the mmaping. Performance is better with...
I suggest one file by symbol on disk and in RT you simply keep as much as needed in memory (I think of it as a in-memory cache). Even low-end...
Great idea with a programming Forum.
I just updated mine on Friday - here is what I did 1. change the time server from time.microsoft.com to one of the nist time servers 2....
How about you start with the Java sample code they give out? hint: it actually works!
The HFT crow is faster than "you and I" for several reasons: 1. They have sponsored access, whereby they often avoid having account checks done...
In my experience systematic trend trading is very good for stocks on the longer term (weeks to months), while RTM is the best in the shorter term...
In some ways IB can be competitive: if you host close to their servers you can get round-trip transaction time down in the 10s of milli seconds or...
One little trick I've used is to encode the system in the name of the OCA group. I would be nice if the API had a string for use by the...
I still just unzip the Unix archive and copy it in c:\JTS manually. This has worked well for the last several years. See my opening post. It's...
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