From a data prospective, I'd pick Thompson-Reuters over Bloomberg any day of the week. From a trading platform prospective, I have no experience.
I'm going to build an ago that tweets/posts all my long positions to help drive some upward pressure into them.
Maybe a short here and there tomorrow morning.
I certainly don't consider myself a pro, but I have to be honest that considering the zero sum game that is most trading, anyone being truthful...
One more. A lot of platforms will let you set alerts quite easily. If you're tempted to make a trade but aren't totally sure, just set an alert....
Plenty of people doing plenty of things, but I would make these observations. This is just me personally, I'm sure others will disagree or offer...
Sounds like some hedge fun.
Nevermind, I think I see the differences.
I'm in process of switching to IB, so I'm trying to understand a few things. On the fixed pricing, I see that the minimum per-order is $1 (so a...
It can do zero commission trades? I want to see an HFT firm with a hundred iPhones nestled behind a server somewhere running this thing.
I'm not trying to be chicken little about it, it's just above my personal risk tolerance. I've seen ratios that ~20% of the FX market is retail...
Don't forget: it looks cool.
Volatility in the short term for sure, but honestly the whole fx "market" seems like a house of cards. 200:1 to 1000:1 leverage, poorly...
Every time someone rebalances their 401k they'll pay 10 basis points on the balance? This includes target date funds and even index funds that...
This was pretty good. "Check out this trend line, we're fine...."
I liked that one a lot too. I think if anyone's looking for a book that they set down on the desk and flip through the pages while writing some...
Microsoft's Azure platform has pretty good monitoring built in.
I've been poking around more in multiple exchanges and ECNs, and am seeing the fairly large spread that can exist between them. I'll see roughly...
Ditto for the "discretionary" trading community (ie: people using their hands to click and type trades), in that for every trader there are two...
It's interesting coming from computer science and software development land, where everything is fairly open source. Looking at something like...
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