Although Windows XP is only "soft" on the realtime front, the multi-tasking or context switching can be significantly improved by the following...
Well, yes, this is "soft" realtime trading. Using an operating like Windows XP Pro is a "soft" realtime OS anyway, and "internet" network delays...
Guys, come on, just admit it - for real-time equities/options trading systems nothing can beat C++. Use Java or Python is great for pilot systems,...
EXTREME PERFORMANCE Ran across some extreme performance flags for the "server vm" in case you want to go to the trouble of installing it....
I am a very big fan of IB. But they have over-reacted to the sub-prime crisis and made equities related intraday futures margins the same as...
Well, I know ButtonTrader users have had problems. My own front-end client hasn't seen them yet. My understanding is they segregated out...
My understanding is that IB has changed their backend server assignments. This has resulted in order acknowledgement disruptions. A...
I've stated my case. You've stated yours. I will refrain from saying anything more about the intraday margin situation. Thanks. :) FS
Interesting. When I made my post about the "countertrend bias", I was simply illustrating how one single bias can result in strings of losses,...
Huh? :)
I think it is to be expected that they don't know what we do, because they may lack the tools or desire to work on the timeframes we use. And...
Trading is a business for me, not a hobby. Double intraday margin cost is doubling my cost of doing business at a given level of profitability or...
You have no evidence that my trading practices constitute gambling, nor anything remotely near it. I exercise far greater continuous control over...
I guarantee you wouldn't be so smug if IB just doubled *your* cost of doing business. Must make you feel good to cheerlead for IB, sir.
When I first started scalping I had to break the "countertrend" habit, which is a form of mass psychology that says "it can't go any higher, so...
If Risk has increased, then Overnight margins should be affected in direct proportion to the punitive changes in intraday margins. But that would...
Learning to trade is accumulating a working "toolbox" of skills, and knowledge, or "savvy". There is no single method, just an ever-increasing...
Improving the wheel without reinventing it from scratch, is a legitimate activity. But without knowing what you're trying to improve, you'd be...
IBj, please don't PM me with this: (Did you actually remove some of your public posts?) "You may want more leverage than we are currently...
So all these years you were in terrible Danger but you didn't realize it, I suppose? ha! FS
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