Recent content by Fermion

Yes. I've thought about this and may end up going this route. My suspicion is that there will be (a) lack of synchronicity between quote sources and a possible consequent slippage and (b) having to reconstruct a trade that I have designed on my own software in the broker's trading app opening up...

I checked your link. They say they clear through Goldman Sachs. GS do not offer portfolio margining to accounts less than $5m. And they kill it if your liquidation value drops below $5m. This pretty much rules them out until I have considerably more funds to trade.

A Private Equity company. They will hopefully have the capability to scale things up.

My system is not automated. It requires me to make a decision and click a button to trigger a trade. What I want to avoid, if I can, is build the trade in my software and, when I am satisfied, re-enter the whole thing in the trading platform. Alternatively, I could build the trade in the trading...

I have an innovative stochastic process that I have been testing (paper-trading) with US equity options that is showing good gains. My VC backers are about to commit approx $1m for real-time testing. The strategy I have been employing is delta-neutral and relies on calibrating the model to the...