Recent content by ssrrkk

No need to point to passages. His whole philosophy is based on the fact that the human condition consists of suffering. I was countering nitro's assertion that there are no absolutes, only relatives. If the latter were true, then one does not need to solve the problem of suffering because it is...

This is fascinating. I get your thought process, and I understand the philosophy of extreme relativism where there is no true reference point other than your own which will always be biased. However, after many years of thought, I tend to agree with the Buddha that there is an absolute scale of...

I agree with most of what you said, except that I don't think being Mexican is the cause. These people were poor to begin with in Mexico before they came here across the border. I think in general regardless of race, poor people are poor because they never learned to better themselves which may...

My theories on social labor economics: (1) your equilibrium income is equal to the value you provide to society (2) your services become more valuable if they are in short supply (3) you may transiently receive more than what you provide, but over the long haul, that always corrects itself...

Notice I said career job, not any job. I would define a career job as those that are pursued by people who were lucky enough to have identified what they are good at back in high school or earlier, worked hard, got into a decent school, majored in what they were driven to do, and landed a job in...

200K USD seems to be a reasonable general cutoff for anyone in US, Europe, or Japan. Seems like 200K/yr is the upper limit of a "normal" non-finance career salary in advanced economies not including bonus, benefits, stock options, etc. Anything beyond that, you are a superstar or a high level...

if you were a quant before and know your stuff, then why are you doing discretionary trading? do you not believe in quantitative methods? or were you just doing as you were told, writing code / doing analysis without actually trading or thinking about the bigger picture?

Okay thanks guys I will call them up for more info.

Any IB automated traders out there that could chime in? Thanks.

thanks for all your input. braincell's suggestion sounds like a good long term solution: having a completely independent monitoring program on a different network and power grid. also stevegees reminder about IBs mobile TWS is a good one. thanks.

Okay let's say that I have a reasonably good automated strategy that I am ready to go live with. However, I have several other strategies, and also would like to continue tweaking with my original strategy. So I would like to start trading live, while simultaneously keep testing different...

sure, or maybe I should start over and just remove the word guarantee from my question which seems to be something you are completely focused on. All I care for is that they give their "best effort" to close out my positions and hey, if once in 20 years, they have a system failure and could not...

I see what you are saying, but the network failure rate between the broker and the exchange is far far smaller than the failure rate of my network or power, may be by several orders of magnitude. So I am not too concerned with the broker failure rate (probably a once in 20 year concern). However...

lol, the difference here is that during my paper trading tests over the last year, I have seen more than 5 disconnect events. there were also 2 power outages in my neighborhood over the year as well. so no, this is not about being paranoid. It's something that could prevent thousands of dollars...