Recent content by ofthomas

the piece of info missing is if you bought that put at the same strike as what you entered the long future. Assuming that is the case, then like @Pekelo stated: sell a call to lock in the profit, or buy another put at the current strike to protect it if you still had the expectation of higher...

once more, one has to understand what transpired with PFG... simply stated, with the way IBKR is setup, your funds are insured as long as they are swept to the securities side... clearly, as with ANY FCM, the commodities/futures funds ARE NOT INSURED... also, please keep in mind that PFG was a...

they cant... you have to understand what happen to MFG.. which IBKR is not in a position to have taking place... if anything, IMO... they are rather cautious around their customer risk, not to mention their MM or principal business is all but gone for the most part..

in terms of financing, you wont find anyone cheaper than IB... specially when it comes to borrowing on margin and shorting interest... if there is someone else, I would be curious to know as well.

why not wrangle your data and switch it all to UTC and then work with those new files? might be simpler and faster to just script the conversion and remove that logic from the analysis phase.

there are platforms that have their own, like LVX which is the most affordable and the better one of the platforms out there... but the most versatile real time scanner is, IMO, trade-alert.com ... it really comes down to what is it that you are scanning for overall, but those are the two better...

http://stocktrading.com/index.php/bstepstrader http://www.t3trading.com/trading.php the 7K capital will be your issue... I believe Bright starts @ 10K last I checked. Long ago, WTS => T3, started @ $2500... no idea what they are doing after they got acquired by T3...

the simplest answers.. trading costs are always cumulative.. if you are doing size and not entering at market all the time, go with tiered and set your routes for what you care about... you will always trade on margin when day trading, even if you "have all the cash". Keep in mind stocks have...

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unless you spec everything out, and provide clear definitions around what you want done, outsourcing wouldn't work for you... how can any developer create something that you want, unless you tell them what is it that you are after and what the output should be, etc? little definition leads to...

why dont you ask the new HR for their policy manuals and review them? then determine with certainty what they are stating about it in terms of policy as to what is permitted or not... outside of that, its a matter of subjectivity...

the best thing I could suggest would be to Open an account with LTSP, get LVX with LVE, and download up to 2 years of historical options data along with some level of corporate data, and get WH Enchilada Pro and see if you can download the entire DB somehow via their API ... that would be as...

oh... sure... take a look at trade-alert.com if you want to recreate the trades, and at IvyDB if you just want EOD, neither is cheap btw, then once you have your training and test data sets for the issues you want to cover given a specific event (earnings, merger, announcements, etc.) you can...

legal, sure... timely, not likely... all of the data in EDGAR is delayed, people report when they have to, usually last minute on the requirement.. its good to see what they might be doing, but you are pretty much late to the party by then (IMO)...

Not quite... if you work for a bank, you are only allowed to trade at designated brokerages and there are approvals that have to take place before any trades ever take place, not to mention compliance gets a copy of all the transaction on your accounts which then get automatically examined and...