The reason R is handy is because when you model relationships and want to know what's tradeable, R gives you the summaries and visualizations of...
TradeStation is a fantastic broker. I asked for help with a sort of exotic problem I encountered and they called me on the phone to help me out...
"THAT" really isn't a system. SEC regulations change, rules change, and where your liquidity will come from also changes. You really aren't...
I built a bridge from TradeStation to R via a DLL written in C++ today. The DLL gets loaded by TradeStation, and builds a singleton around a...
I love this site, even with the trash. Mostly because it keeps me motivated. I wish I had friends that liked trading as much as I do and who...
I thought I would have a day of productive work here, but it looks like I have to relearn some DCOM fundamentals to talk to R in Windows. The...
This is because, if you're a sikh, you (probably) have a turban on. To most of America, terrorists are associated with turbans. Not saying it's...
I wasn't much of a racist before moving to NY. Now, sometimes my patience is tested. Tancredo was right when he talked about assimilation....
NVM. I'm a tard. If anyone ever Googles to answer this question, here is a document with good answers:...
I'm looking at RInside and RCpp. Someone in one of my grad school classes mentioned something about a COM object interface to R. Really, I don't...
I really don't know where this "backtested over 20 years" stuff comes from. There are short term phenomenon that, if you understand, you can...
I wouldn't hire you if you bothered to waste money learning FIX, or even FAST FIX. Just read the docs and find some broker/exchange that lets you...
Agree with other poster -- are you a direct customer, or do you have some other means of getting onto EBS?
Nobody who is an institutional trader is afraid of retail flow, because retail flow is where the HF traders make their money. They need fools who...
I buy stocks for swing trades now and then. It won't be so bad. I'll get rid of the training wheels at some point, but their platform gets me...
I found an edge in R and I know how to trade it now. It took a bit of the weekend, and the code is only partially complete for testing. I think...
The only opinion you need to have is that the default network stack is not good enough if you want to respond fast enough to play with the big...
I am intimately familiar with this stuff, which is the reason I am in the HF space. :-)
What makes you think a wino will bother going to the hospital? In college, all the girls who got alcohol poisoning just passed out and, unless...
If the guy dies of his alcoholism, society wins though. Perhaps we should come up with an inverse tax where people who are poor get taxed MORE on...
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