Good points. I am certainly not talking about something that happens every day. There are quite a few hypothetical scenarios that can trigger MFA,...
Got notification from IB, that 2-factor is now required for trading. In the past, I could opt out just for trading while still keeping it for...
If listing trades on your tax return is your primary concern - you don't have to. LLC makes sense if puts you in a very different tax bracket....
Looking forward to your updates! Keep up the good work.
Did a little retrospect recently on my automation. Flat this year but capital was preserved and still managed have no 2 negative months in a row....
LUNA loss is much bigger. 81.35% of Madoff's investors losses were recovered. Prosecution was brutal in his case because he lost money for the...
You should. 10mil$ on 250k account is very decent for an experiment assuming executions were live. There is an educator/trader here with something...
I have a lot of respect for that sort of experimentation. Stuff published by someone else can take us only so far. Real traders have to glue...
If that's the outcome after years of running it then indeed not worth it. Unless that was seen a possibility during strategy development process...
As of yesterday: ~0% MTD, slightly negative for the year. My strategies did poorly in terms of taking advantage of this volatility but well...
I use Norgate for backtesting. So to match live executions with backtest as close as possible I have to stick with it. Eg. if exit should be...
Yes, IB for intraday, Norgate for EOD. My execution software knows how to work with both and combines them into continuous series in memory. IB is...
Yes I am generally a happy IB customer and recommend them to all my friends who wish to do more than just a passive investment. My ceiling is...
IQFeed opens a local TCP/IP port you can pull the data thru if you crack the protocol. It's really not a rocket science. You just send a string...
Pick a more liquid instrument or/and non-POF broker/offering. Don't over complicate things for yourself. There is no magic algorithm to solve...
Profitable trader here. Shorted >1000 names over last few years thru borrowing shares. Including GME and most of meme stocks. Recommendation:...
As I was getting into 6 figures account I made up a coins routine. I’d place 9 1$ ones and 10 10 cents on my desk and move them around to...
Canada declared Emergency act (previously called War Measures Act). Lots of things that normally can’t happen will happen now. It will be very...
While many NDX stock being destroyed I looked at a pretty vanilla NDX rotational system for any resemblances with the previous tech bubble....
Re Java vs Kotlin - when I did automatic code conversion of my original Java version the lines of code were cut by ~30%. I'd say if you actually...
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