I use Safecopy and am very satisfied. It's inexpensive and has some nice features like saving a version history and backup all your PC's to one...
A lot of the money is to "fill in" the holes from the deflation and after-effects of the 2008 debt crisis. Make balance sheets technically sound...
It's not the API throwing an exception, but if your own code in the event handler throws an exception, it's on the API call stack and the API...
Make sure you do your own error handling (nothing is outside a try/catch) in the orderstatus function. If any error is not caught and percolates...
It's a hard question, and in real life it will also depend a lot on the liquidity of the stocks, the size of your order, and so on. You can take a...
Oh I see. In my mind it's better to put your effort into having a backup alarm (i.e. directly to your cell phone over the internet), or even two...
Why do you care about losing RDP when you are sleeping? You wake up and do what? Wouldn't you only want to wake up if your trading platform loses...
I don't know about with IB, but with dark pool routes you can often trade at midpoint. Also break your orders up into 100 share increments will...
You can use level II to see where the liquidity is, how many shares you are likely able to get, and route directly. Do you even trade?
I was in the same boat, a former Genesis client, I also talked to lightspeed but ended up with remotedaytrader.com. The website looks tacky until...
- do you have an edge, such that you believe you can be successful? - a risk adverse approach isn't an edge, it will just help you stay in the...
I'd like to know, does IEX route out, and if so, do they "thor" it?
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+1 .... this is what the "I'll start making money when they ban the HFT's and stop losing a penny on every trade!" crowd needs to understand. If...
"Ban market exchanges from giving High Frequency Traders faster market access and front running orders." Wow, with such a well thought out...
Are your orders inside/outside/at the spread? But generally with 100 share orders, you don't have anything to worry about.
That's a good plan, but don't overload yourself and lose the ability to think about each strategy individually. If two or more strategies go south...
Yes, during the good times just remember that bad times WILL come, during the bad times remember that good times WILL come again (as long as you...
So how did it go, any glitches on your first day? I'm guessing it made money, and no big problems, so you're feeling altruistic and a little bored :)
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