Recent content by traderbravesfan

I thought that if you gave up your citizenship, the federal government may not allow you to return, depending on your "new citizenship" country. How does this work?

Got it, thanks vita.

Hi everyone, I've searched the net and a lot of the forums here, but have not been able to find *decent* documentation about Redi Plus - specifically how to setup and configure it. Can someone please post any helpful documentation and / or links? Thanks

might want to put in a "low water mark" clause as well, lol... 10%? of what? 10% of returns, over what period of time, over what capital base? trading on what frequency, which markets, what level of leverage, etc.?

It depends - in a % of profits scenario - will you give a written commitment to trade a certain amount of capital for a prolonged period of time to allow the strategies to work? Will you provide account statements to confirm results? In the end, the programmer has to be able to estimate a...

DDE is "Dynamic Data Exchange", an older intra-application communications protocol. Excel supports communication with other applications via DDE. DDE is for sending variables and instructions between applications (in this case, application 1 is your instance of Excel, and application 2 is the...

GGSAE and Don, thanks for your replies. GGSAE - wasn't trying to offend or anything - just at 20 or 30:1, a big move in the wrong direction can wipe out an account. My first rule is to not do that. I'm not ready for that level of risk yet, so I won't take it. When I'm better / more...

OK everyone - I have questions on interest fees and haircut fees - Earlier in this thread, Don Bright mentioned haircut fees. Can we assume that a haircut fee is calculated as "extra interest" with the same general logic as described below for interest fees, except using the appropriate...

ekwtrading and Cocaine (now there's a username w/ a story I bet) - a very delayed thank you to you both. I thought this thread would go a bit farther, and have been away from the site with my head stuck in CFA books for a few months. Thanks for your replies. They were both helpful.

I have a decent history of retail equity trading and some basic commodity futures experience, to go with excellent software and database skills (15+ years / engineering background). I'm thinking of going Prop. What does it take to be very successful ($10k / day +)? How hard did you have to...