Recent content by zuijlen

Seems to be a perfect time to be a contrarian.

I built a Shuttle myself about three years ago, which I believe is the age of yours. I was disappointed with the result, but I have been able to resurrect it by replacing the power supply with a more recent version that can deliver more power and is therefore not so overtaxed and less prone to...

Perhaps a gifted (or not so gifted) playwright?

mjh: 4 posts since Nov 2004 puts you way up there according to the critera formulated by another poster... I feel like a chatter box!

I don't if you are familiar with the book "Modeling Financial Markets", which sort of aims to do the same what you are planning to do. Anyway, the book includes a CD-ROM with, among others, a version of an API for X_TRADER. More information about this API can be found at...

Here are a few links you can investigate: http://www.attaincapital.com/systemrank/index.htm http://www.collective2.com

Well that's what the brokers would like you to believe :D. I'm really amazed by the "spreads" some brokers can get away with.:eek:

I started reading the referenced article but had to give up due to an accute ROFL attack after the following amazing "discovery" revealed by the author: I wish I had some of that $1.3 trillion in my demo account! :D

It's a sad story about RefcoFX... I would think that if your account is frozen so that you eventually may not see anything back, you should at least be able to bring it up as a loss. I just hope for everyone involved that things gets resolved before tax time :( Edit: I have a question myself...

Most DDE interfaces do not support historical data requests, so I assume that is the case for IB's interface as well.

Which seems to indicate that further improvement may be achieved by looking at values beyond 60. In other words, we cannot be sure that we have reached the most optimal solution yet.

I can't reach their server either.

This is incorrect. There are US brokers who provide FDIC insurance through a bank, which amounts to $100k, still more than 30k Euro. However, the issue at hand is not whether the bank will go broke, but whether it engages in practices that are disadvantageous to the customer. In Saxo's case...