If you end up with a "boxed" position... Long 1000 and short 1000 same stock... Your broker or their clearing firm... CAN just "journal" the...
The fact that 50% of the voters actually believe 1%/day is possible... Just confirms my belief that most people here don't have a clue in terms...
Martin, You mostly know of what you speak... :) The 100,000 boxes may be running Unix... but Google OS is the valuable piece that controls...
I have never mentioned the subject of shorting in this thread (???). That said... shorting an irrationally priced high-flying stock that...
For a market order yes... but more locations. Limit orders are more complicated because they can stay alive for hours. As a generalization, for...
C++ is a language meant for professional programmers and has the steepest learning curve. The positive trade off is that it allows you to do...
I run a serious business... And my email is almost 100% GMail. I have ** decided ** that I can trust GOOG with my mail... And each email is...
As for the "paradigm shift" thing... If I had mentioned 3 years ago that Jobs and Apple were planning to seize control of the music download...
You misrepresented what I said... And also contradicted yourself. I said, "supercomputer" and emphasized the "custom OS". They can scale...
Create a separate list called: "Shortable Stocks Added in Prev 60 Minutes"... Or better yet... Build a small 2-3 person Stock Loan...
Just to follow up... Betting on GOOG means betting on a "paradigm shift" in the PC space... not on increased ad revenues. No more Windows,...
What a ludicrous statement. Just a blip and you claim that the sky is falling. This reminds me of all those "suicidal" slips Google management...
Routing specific to what you trade and how you trade it is all that matters. I trade 100% NYSE Limit Orders in low volume stocks... < 100,000...
Untrue. Electronic markets are relatively efficient and can be viewed as "close to random" systems. Market inefficiencies that can be...
12 years, 1.4 million shares/month, 90% NYSE, IB and IB API. Would love to meet someone else local working on ATS with IB API. Poker OK....
The Holy Grail of Automation... Is a long-term ** working hedging strategy **... Strict and sound hedging ** position by position **... Making...
An ATS trading futures on 2-5% margin... Should never be left unattended. An ATS trading low volatility "bond like" securities... On 50%...
Ever check IB financials? They have a stable 30% return on capital over 20 years... And have grown to $2 billion in assets from zero. They...
That's an open ended question. Depends what you trade. You will always pay for leverage... Anybody giving you leverage will try to take most...
The only bidding going on... Is for the "regulated" business... Where there are no "landmines". The prize is millions of account customers...
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