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For a trader making a handfull of round-trips a week with an account size of $15,000, what broker and trading solution/tools would you recommend? Mostly focusing on S&P500, NDX and sometimes a couple of stocks. Also, if it matters, I am a European trading from Europe. Thanks!

Hi! I'm a trader who mostly trade US indexes and some US stocks on a swing term basis. I am a European and use Interactive Brokers. What are some things I should be aware of? (trading taxes, transaction costs) What are some instruments that are recommended or should be avoided? (I saw...

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I trade a few non-US stocks and also a few currency trades via Interactive Brokers. So my currency balances for a few different currencies will always be a net plus or minus. How do I re-balance these currencies so that I won't have a currency risk? Do I have to take currency trades to...

Thanks for the feedback! I have no programming experience at all, so I want it as intuitively as possible. Cannot really judge from the code which one is most intuitively. But I guess that from all the software out there, EasyLanguage is the most widely used and thus have to biggest user...

Thanks for the tip! Actually I have been looking at that. I heard that it is a bit harder to code than for instance EasyLanguage (TradeStation). In what ways, would you say, is Amibroker better than other solutions, besides price?

The very nice initial roundup of this thread is probably a bit dated 6 years later. Are there any new threads or other web sources where I can find a nice walk-through to see the differences between technical/quantitative analysis? I need a tool where I can back-test and use own suppliers...

Sorry for the long delay :) fickletrader, I do not know if I get banned now, but here's the link to my blog JohanLinden.com. Not that hard to figure out right? ;) Sentiment is obvioulsy hard to measure, anything that can make you millions or billions should be hard. Markets are not so easy...

Two questions regarding mortgage (home) loans. Why are most people having adjustable mortgage rates on their home loans? Is it better to have adjustable or fixed rate? There are mainly two reasons why people choose adjustable mortgage rate: 1. Because, an adjustable rate is mainly...

A look into the arguments against our current monetary system, and the criticism surrounding fractional banking with fiat money. There are thousands of opinions and experts that claims that our monetary system, a fractional banking system backed by fiat money, is doomed to fail. The idea got...