Recent content by ssternlight

I actually don't have an opinion as I haven't monitored what you (Anton) or the RE people have done in the last 3-4 months. I think the ability to easily run multiple strategies in real-time is going to be on every significant platform. That meets a major competitive and personal milestone in my...

I haven't been paying much attention to platforms for a few months but I just noticed that WL's latest version is written on Net 2.0. It will be interesting to compare the three head to head sometime early next year after OQ and WL have had initial feedback and debugged their new feature...

I'm not following this one that closely, but it may be a one way bet for them -- i.e. if they don't step up they take a major hit anyway.

You'd rather let the lenders fail periodically and pay out a couple of hundred billion to stabilize the system than regulate? Not conservative economics in my book...:D

Jeez, What's to stop them from delaying the feed for a half second to see where the market is heading and then filling you themselves and arbing the difference. I'm convinced some brokerages try this...

Here's another April Fools joke... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

That is indeed my understanding of the new law. If one thing had to be changed that would probably be the best one...although more conservative folks might rightly argue that they should take their lumps.

I think you'll be liable over time for the difference between what you owe and what the bank sells it for. But don't quote me on that one. ;)

One thing I haven't seen discussed is the impact of the new bankruptcy law on foreclosures. I'm not sure you can "walk away" any more....you still might be evicted for non-payment though.

Frankly, customer service doesn't matter to me if the product is decent -- I use IB after all and am quite happy with 0 customer service. So, I don't hold that against them at all. You might be right about OQ and former glory. There's now way to know right now as it is still evolving...

lol... I remember chatting with you about QD when it first came out. :) I know a few people that use QD successfully for their trading. I don't think it's that unusual. I do agree that retail customer service could be improved over there but I don't see that as a definitive comment on...

NT was a scalpers front end the last time I looked -- which was a few years back. That's a very different animal from an ATS that does sophisticated backtesting and analysis. Just taking a quick look right now version 5 is not at all the same animal. Like I said I have my doubts...

Not sure I agree with that as you can do the same in OQ for $30/month. It really has to be a hard feature to feature comparison. Nice to hear that another product "might" be competitive though. I actually have my doubts about NT being competitive. But... Is there a link to the NT feature list?

Polr, You bought a QD license from Quanthouse or you are using OpenQuant? QD is quite expensive for retail traders -- $000's/month.

Calculate the net tax value and equity built for own vs. rent. Calculate the potential equity downside over the next year or two. Compare the two numbers. Is it an obviously bad deal to buy now? Up here in No Cal, prices doubled over the last 5 years. The run rate for this area probably...