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http://www.itg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MOOandMOC_11_6_09.pdf

Not sure what you are looking for - but I working a firm that does this. Physical settlement is typically wire transfers sent via Barclays or Citi settled in semi real time. Anyway ping me andif you are looking for something specific.

a) a lot of bond trading is against the banks. ie they sell out of inventory... or go to the market buy it and flip it to you at a spread. Is that the case? b) aside from IB who has a decent interface? is there anything like a think or swim for options?

Check out R - nice plugins to St Louis FED

Each of the markets have MOO and MOC order types. But act differently. NYSE is a human calculated open while others are not http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/fact_sheet_nyse_open_close.pdf...

http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/courts/scc/ You can file yourself if its under $25K That should speed them up.

Everyone references the BIS reports

I am quite familiar with HND - it is a quite good proxy for the CME and ICE natgas contracts... Toronto is physically closer to Chicago than NY (kind in the middile)- it trades closer to the actual...

Evaluated them a while ago. Very strong backtesting platform Strong for development Grew out of the Eurex - german company Tango is fairly powerful - I think they also have some kind of C++ api as well. Run their own network and platform (similar to TTNET) Expensive

I use the 32 bit version with Oracle Java - no problems reported I've used both the downloaded java and from the 3rd party repo. Actually I think the repo just points to a shell script to download and install.... Also all the plugins work fine - links to python and R... Cheers Cheers

Its true that most is OTC - but all the big banks also have started to use CME to hedge their positions plus EBS, RD3K. I would stick to CME futures and Options for retail - they also have the eMini contract if you want to reduce postion and or risk.

Once you have tested it may be worth looking at colo at Equinix NY4 Cheers

A bunch of the traders use the matrox device(s) here. We tested the usb devices and didn't go there. Again - least problem will be using 2 huge displays and screen splitting software. Second is the Matrox

Disable the onboard one and use 2 nvidia's. Ubuntu works much nicer with nvidia drivers :-) I also use it - along with vmware for the odd windows app.

Something like the ASUS UL20FT has HDMI and VGA out. you could run 2 x 24" screens off it for a total of 3 screens. http://www.liliputing.com/2010/07/asus-ul20ft-thin-and-light-netbook-to-ship-in-august.html Only slightly more expensive than a netbook. Some of the AMD netbooks...