Recent content by byteme

I love ET conspiracy theories. Please enlighten me what is not kosher or what the angle is. There is a whole demographic that increasingly only use smartphone apps and don't want or need a desktop app equivalent. Perhaps you aren't the target demographic for these brokers. I suppose you would...

Your words about safe and strong encryption and strong security at the server side leaves no other interpretation. The same applies to browser and desktop applications - where there is a much higher prevalence of viruses, trojans, key loggers, potential for injection, xss, phishing etc...

Haven't pulled up the info but sounds like a classic short gamma high probability trade that works well until it doesn't because the gamma goes through the roof when approaching the barrier. Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller as they say. Not shitty luck, inevitable.

wait, do people still trade manually? :D

So the same as desktop and browser-based applications then?

Better in what way? Usability? Convenience? Security? These new fangled brokers are mobile-first and (at present) are mobile-only: https://www.robinhood.com https://www.freetrade.io They are also zero-commission businesses but that's probably tangential. The thing is, they are targeted at a...

Have you considered putting your system on https://www.collective2.com This and other platforms and methods have been around a long time to deal with your type of scenario.

Yes, it's mobile-first. Welcome to 2016...but they are also working on a web platform now.

Can you explain where you see the vulnerabilities, specifically as applied to a trading app and what the attack vectors might be?

Late to this thread but ustocktrade is a completely different animal to Robinhood - off exchange. With a lean operation and use of modern technology why shouldn't zero commissions be completely feasible? Over in Europe there are at least a couple of other start-ups (that I know of) following...

Wilmott et al. books are good but I would suggest to the OP to give them a pass, unless he wants to pivot to derivatives pricing or risk at some point in the future. Whilst the Wilmott books are more practical than other more theoretical tomes, I still don't recall reading about any trading...

It has probably been close to a decade since I read it but the Vidyamurthy book on Pairs Trading was pretty good I thought. If you already have a good grasp of the math then you might get some basic ideas from that book. There a probably a lot of old ET threads on this topic too. I recall...

EasyLanguage is as good a place to start as any albeit a bit dated but I would personally recommend learning some programming basics outside of the context of trading in the first instance. No shortage of online courses to achieve this. Try Coursera. Once you have the basics of procedural...

Finally, that late 90's early internet style logo has gone..... ...replaced by an ealy 90's arcade game style logo. The retro look is deliberate right? Seriously though, shouldn't the up arrow be a green color?

To the OP, what do you want to be? There's no substitute for just getting on a doing it if you want to develop your trading skills. Most of the books mentioned will likely NOT help you with that. If on the other hand you want to start developing your own theoretical models and/or code up...