Recent content by Roscoe

Have you looked at Arthur's project? It seems to hit quite a few of your goals. Tell him I sent you. http://www.portaracqg.com/

I get power fluctuations here in Houston of generally short duration, usually over-voltage but sometimes total loss of power, and my 1500w UPS covers me very well for that. The Internet stays up so the issues seem to be only local. My UPS load ranges from 100w to 135w which gives me around an...

Just to wrap up the Fidelity part of this thread: I closed out all of my positions a couple of weeks back and then tried to move my money out and close the account. That seemingly-simple request took them over a full week to do and only happened after several phone calls from me, which I...

Thanks hajimow! The ETF project only has a few trades a year, so not really all that active. How are IB these days? I haven't looked at them in a decade or more so I am really out of touch with the state of play there.

What riled me up more than anything was the absolutist "we are right and you are wrong" attitude when confronted about their high-handed attitude in freezing my account without warning or notification. I did not enjoy being treated as an errant child. I have been a professional futures trader...

To anybody who still has an account with Fidelity, be warned: yesterday they froze my current account without any warning. No phone call, no email, nothing: they just froze it. Why? Because I asked, using their in-account chat service, if they could supply me with updated daily ASCII data for...

You are correct volpunter, sadly.

As Daniel Collins so eloquently points out in dealmakers post above, MFG did a lot of damage to a lot of people and yet Corzine remains free, and this is because he has contacts in government who continue to protect him. Compare this to the PFG mess in 2012 - Russell Wasendorf of PFG was...

This SOB should be in jail but he has enough connections to stay dry. Scum indeed.

Being a paranoiac* at heart I have my primary SSD backed up to a secondary SSD daily and to an old-style spinning HDD weekly by Casper. Additionally I have continuous backup of all data to the cloud (my offsite option) with BackBlaze. Nothing to do, nothing to forget. *I have had enough HDD's...

My public wifi rule is simple: no banking and if I really have to get off a trade when I am on the road, then only over a secure (hotel with password) wifi and don't hang about - log on, place the order and check it then log off.

My solution is this: my desktop has 3 physical drives, each with 2 partitions. Drive 0 contains partitions C: and D: where C: is the system drive and D: is the data drive. I use Casper (www.fssdev.com/) to do a daily backup of Drive 0 (SSD) to Drive 1 (SSD) and a weekly backup of Drive 0 (SSD)...

Guys, please knock off the personal attack BS already: this as a thread about "If you had to do it all over again". Nobody cares if you don't like some other poster and we certainly don't want to hear about it endlessly. Back on track please.

My pleasure, glad that it helped. College won't be of much use though: this is the real world. I learned my stats from a variety of sources, online and in books. You can educate yourself much more efficiently.