Recent content by mbbcat

Looking for a copy of Rob Friesen's book "Art of the Arb" hard or digital copy pm me please with offers

plenty of fx dealers willing to market the next wiz-bang wiglet to their clients .... get a good lawyer tho..... ;)

Teach it to the computer, backtest, forward test - then license the technology.... ;)

Actually the victims of both MFG & Lehmans had their lives severely disrupted & only after many years of stress did some of them get even a partial repayment of their own money it is unlikely that any will ever be made whole let alone compensated. Apparently ( according to IB staff ) there...

Insurance costs money - the only real stop is a long put / call & that maybe about to get a whole lot more expensive What was not mentioned above is that BOTH Nasdaq & NYSE are ending GTC orders as well as stops. ? anyone smell something burning - like a meltdown about to happen?

IMHO Sounds like IB may be ring fencing its risk & getting ready for a possible meltdown. Shifting risk away from account protection & dumping it on clients & the incompetence of the hk authorities - who ALWAYS side with big business interests anyway. -) ( I may be wrong - come on IB come up...

Consider this The entire financial & business world relies ( foolishly?) on the borrower of 1st resort ie Treasury debt to back their operations & stow their cash IF the faith in the T debt is shaken or they do default, how do you see the banks, brokers, clearing houses, pension companies...

OK, Sure there is no easy answers, however here is the rub, markets are getting more & more computer traded, meanwhile access to facilities & meaningful computational power is increasing, so how does a manual trader learn the skills to evolve, compete & survive? btw its an old problem...

Has anyone here actually done an MFE ? If so did it help in the real world of trading? ie can you make real & consistent money in the markets from what you learnt (as opposed to salary & bonus etc) ? Be interested to hear your experiences

Yep I am 12 yrs old (several times over) no am naive , have lived in many countries around the world & in my experience if you mind your own business & do not offend people & try to fit in with the locals you will be fine wherever you go. however being an expat is not for the faint...

Taxes are such an important issue in profitability & flexibility so other places to consider would include Brunei, UAE, Qatar, Vanuatu, & anywhere else that has the basic good manners to keep their hands out of my pockets. ? Why kowtow to thieves? - there is a choice! :cool: btw There are...

Hong Kong - Asia's Word City 1) Zero tax for personal investments, 2) Great infrastructure & access to international news & markets, 3) Very central to most of East Asia making a lot of fantastic getaways just a few hours (air)bus ride away Of course there are lots of good...

Has anyone thought why do we still need brokers & why the exchanges have not simply cut the middle man out of the deal in this electronic world - the exchanges already self clear, it would only be another step to manage the increased numbers of customers & / merge with a large broker to create a...

has anyone managed to get tws working with an externally hosted java server - say on another machine on the lan?

has anyone got a genuine but unregistered copy of this for sale?