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Here are some: The project examples (on their Web site): http://sterlingtechnologiesinc.com/Support.aspx and this thread: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=125715 Enjoy -- it's a complex API -- plenty to learn :D

ROFL...very good observation. One thing that kills me about ET is that there are so many posters who seem to think that all they need is more discipline, when they have no edge. If you believe in something hard enough, that means that you can make it true if you've got the proper discipline...

I don't even really know myself how I feel about trading as a career -- my outlook changes from day to day. But I think that a lot of the traditional professions are better, overall. Take, e.g., medicine and higher-end law -- these professions are far more consistent and respected, I think...

crgarcia is one of the most prolific ET trolls of all time -- you must have set a record for tolerance to have just lost your respect for crgarcia only on his/her 2532n'd, trolling post. :D

Thanks for your informative comments, Eight. I've often wondered about this. It also seems that non-agency retail brokerages love to internalize OTC orders as it's massively profitable. Occasionally, I've seen comments leak out from such brokerages' internalization groups, and it's pretty...

Could these be internalization ("internal crosses")? This is a way for brokers to trade against their clients without the "annoyance" of other market participants outbidding them, resulting in increased bid/ask spreads, of course (not sure why the SEC allows it still). Internalization now...

Rentec's best algos only run Medallion -- essentially, Simons' own money and that of some other Rentec employees -- and can't run anywhere near $100 billion.

If I had a choice, I would use FIX, which is a standard (or at least approximately standard) interface that many brokers support (I think they almost all would use it on the back end, even if they don't offer it to clients). QuickFIX is one implementation, and it's free and a lot of people...

Very true. To take an extreme example, if someone starts a Ponzi tomorrow, tells the investors they have made 10,000,000 times their initial investment every year, then is exposed several years later, is it really true that "wealth was destroyed"? Hardly -- it never existed. Similarly...

For really large data sets in bulk, these may be better, depending on your needs etc.: NYSE has their TAQ data. http://www.nyxdata.com/nysedata/default.aspx?tabid=730 NxCore has historical, if you're interested in learning their API. Their main business is providing real-time quotes, of...

Sending orders too quickly may crash your app, especially if you've coded it the way in the examples (as if we're supposed to know any other way :D). But in my experience, this never crashes Sterling itself -- not that Sterling never crashes at all. You may just need to slow down your order...

This reads as a refreshingly honest confession :D

Also, this article quoted by someone in another forum has some commentary from Wedbush: http://www.tradersmagazine.com/news/103465-1.html

This has a discussion of this topic that isn't too detailed but might be of interest: Investor Relations and High Frequency Trading - What’s Lurking in the (Wed)bushes? http://www.buzzle.com/articles/investor-relations-and-high-frequency-trading-whats-lurking-in-the-wedbushes.html

That really depends on what you want and what you're trading, but here are some: Goldman Sachs, primes of other former I-Bank's (in whatever form they exist now), ITG, Newedge, Neonet, Instinet (the agency brokerage, not the ECN that Nasdaq bought), Miletus, Lava, EdgeTrade. Also, brokerages...

It's not guaranteed that the economy will get worse without the stimulus package; the only thing that's certain is that many stimulus packages have been passed using the same argument, yet the economy has gotten worse. I am not saying I know the packages are wrong, but one thing seems beyond...

It's also about liquidity and transaction costs.

Unlike Madoff, he's not doing anything illegal, AFIK. The thing that amazes me is that people repeatedly give money to those who go bust over and over again by taking too much risk. Consider the funds run by Meriwether, Merton, and Keynes. Classic "heads we win, tails you lose", whether...

Some people on Snopes seem to think this is fake. I can't seem to find anything to verify it. Does anyone have a link to this quote that proves it's legit?