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Unfortunately, your understanding of what it means to be a zero sum game is semantically incorrect. For some reason you are assuming that everyone has to win or lose the same $ amount each. This holds only if there are equal numbers of winners and losers. However, fewer winners and more...

Given you said you have experience with e-mini futures trading, let me rephrase question 1 in those terms: If you buy 5 futures contracts and 5 other people take the other side with one contract each, does that mean it is no longer a zero sum game?

I'm not sure you carefully read the explanation given by the other poster. The premise you are alluding to as some kind of advantage has been debunked authoritatively many times before. It only requires simple arithmetic to understand why it is false yet it is perpetuated successfully for...

You mean, if they are attacked, Iran will attack back? Unbelievable. Sounds a little old-fashioned to me what with all of these pre-emptive strikes going on nowadays. I don't think they got the memo: if they are attacked they should just sit there and take it.

Sending signals from Ensign to IB: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=27940

Make no mistake: learning to program properly takes a bit of time. Add to that the domain specific challenges you will have to deal with and it starts to become quite a steep learning curve. If you want to be a programmer in the long-term then pursuing this course of action is fine...

I can see exchange representatives lining up to be "bitched at" right now...

People do. Problem is, the chat software employed is getting a little dated.

You obviously need to have some kind of hole into your network to get access to your trading system from your cell. There's not much way around it. As long as you configure your firewall as tightly as possible it should be fine. You could tunnel your command protocol over HTTP and use SSL...

Incidentally, although a34567 has already answered, because he is connecting to different instances of TWS he can use the same client ID for all connections without interference.

If you aren't a new incarnation of the previous troll then I suggest you start a new thread with your specific question outlining the details you have just done. Otherwise, your query remains off-topic for this thread.

Unfortunately, your analogy is fundamentally flawed. You seem to be mistakenly equating ESP/CEP product vendors with trading system vendors. Perhaps you are not aware that ESP/CEP products are just software components - not trading systems. ESP/CEP products are just tools - one of many...

You can ask the same question of almost any profession. Why do other people work for other people rather than starting their own business based on their skill-set? Pick any profession and ask the same question. Some people just don't have the business acumen, initiative, entreprenurial spirit...

The writing style and superiority complex evident in your posts was the give away. Porgie 11-22-05: i have said so many times that if u r in the same box of majority and same are not making it, why join them........ that is how I developed 4 systems all over 90 percent accuracy even...

Many of them do.

Just curious, what is "Open" about OpenQuant?

I think you'll find that those other 2 monkeys have been around here a long while and are well known to the community. Their credibility is well established. The date a member has joined is not necessarily representative of how long they have been on ET. As you have demonstrated, aliases are...

Unfortunately, no she has not. See my earlier post for evidence of this fact if the rest of the thread was not already enough.

Selling calls at the lower strike price would have halved your transaction costs.

I have a couple of questions: - If he was from the UK would you be asking if technically he was a foreign terrorist? - If he was and American would you be asking if technically he was a domestic terrorist? Essentially, I'm curious about the criteria you are using to categorize someone...