If you're hiring traders to trade for you, the main thing you need to be able to do is manage their risk and cut them off before they lose too...
And yet online poker is still played for money. There will always be uncooperative offshore venues where a BC exchange could operate, although...
Just my $0.02 worth, but I think you're right it's not so hot. For those splits, they should be providing the capital. Also, what data center...
Who do you use now? All the major retail brokers "shuffle your order" off to market makers like Knight or Citadel before it goes to market, and...
I do a lot of trading in my main taxable IB account. Several of my intraday strategies are reliable and proven enough (and largely long only),...
Kickstarter. Make a good pitch and see if you get enough interest.
The short term is definitely more predicable than the long term. There are stocks where you can predict the next tick with near certainty (and of...
What are your thoughts on exchanges giving structural advantages to certain groups - DMMs, floor brokers, super high rebate tiers, naked short...
Hmm, just referrals I guess. Good enough I don't need to trade insults with people whose English and motivations are questionable. I was hoping...
I'm not sure what you're trying to sell with your negative attitude here, but I'm pretty sure I know when my PNL is positive, lol. But I do...
Breakfast? Depends on how you trade, but I could easily spend 30-45 minutes getting ready for the day, studying market sentiment or overnight...
Illegal for the little people. Congressmen could legally trade on their knowledge of upcoming legislation, Fed briefings, etc, as could those...
I disagree with your premise - if your costs are high, you trade less and only when you have enough edge. The commissions aren't a surprise - if...
I take it you aren't storing times in your files? If your file format was <time> <signal value> Then you could plot multiple signals like...
Thanks for the tip. Those caps are pretty annoying sometimes, and there are other unspecificied rules IB has regarding an "orderly" market where...
Lol, true enough. The problem is that for long short trading, your ROE scales directly with your leverage ratio, so if they take me down from 6:1...
Thanking them for increasing the margin requirements on my shorts?
I agree - did they get burned in small cap names? If not, why are they doing this when it will cause customers to trade less and earn low ROCs,...
And now that the Feds are paying, they care even less than you would how much things cost. Pricing is going to get worse, not better. More...
1. Get a better broker, not HFTs fault he's selling your flow to disreputable sources 2. I think that's called "liquidity" and you'd like it if...
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