Lets see first hand how many people here have actually been to China. The media and news articles do not always get things accurate or they...
TickData is good for futures. But I think it's to expenisve for equities. I have spotted differences between TickData and Bloomberg. I then...
What are you on about, JFK is still alive. I saw him last week hanging with Elvis and Michael Jackson. :)
If you are an exchange member and hold the security for less than 28 days. There are different types of membership and I believe LSE has recently...
This is not correct. You can get around the stamp duty by trading CFDs or by holding a security for less than a month.
Can you post a picture of your wife? :)
You didn't say what city you were in? Why don't you setup on your own? It seems that you have a pretty good deal and you are just being...
Bloomberg, Reuters and TickData all provide a way to roll futures so that you can look at them over a long time horizion. For example you can...
I few years ago I had a job which took me to China a few times a year. I read somewhere that alot of fraud was happening in China. So typically...
I don't know about this ... I think eventually you might be right but nobody knows when it's going to turn. You could be like LTCM just a year to...
It could have been luck ... and your luck might be ready to run out. Can you make money in this environment? What is your Sharpe over the last...
This is something I have been thinking about for a long time. There are guys who trade MR in the option world via volatility. It's not exactly...
It all depends on the software you are using. From what you say you are doing; it's nothing special, so a normal PC should be fine. It's always...
The cheapest way is to do it yourself. Learn a programming language and implement what you want. Since you are using IB they usually limit the...
I use a proprietary BT platform which I built myself. It follows a distributed architecture which consists of Matlab, Excel, Bloomberg, SQL Server...
I love to backtest as well. Mainly futures and equities but someday I would like to add options to it if I ever get the time. It takes too much...
You admit that it's a gamble. So unwind it and take a profit and move on to the next trade. If you what to play with it (since you have...
Apples and oranges ... the ideology is completely different. Maybe in a hundred years but not now. Does anyone know what the rules are? Can a...
Dude you are crazy to think that the UK is more tax friendly than the US. I am an American living in London and I pay a hell of alot more taxes in...
You left out many links containing several (policies and laws) which take into consideration exceptions and are applied on a case by case basis....
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