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"As part of this revamped experience, we’re retiring a few features of the original Google Finance, including the portfolio, the ability to download your portfolio, and historical tables"

A backdoor way to play GBTC is via the ARKW ETF. GBTC represents 7% of ARKW. ARKW is up 85% this year vs 35% for its closest competitor, the FDN ETF. If you want to really play games and juice the returns, buy ARKW on margin, and short or buy puts on an identical amount of FDN. That will...

I also noticed this morning that main Google Finance web page at www.google.com/finance has radically changed. For individual stocks, the detailed information such as recent News and Earnings info is gone, and in its place is a lot more images and links to news stories. Now it is as useless...

Before you start writing and programs, first write down, on paper, the steps that your automated trading will do. Statements such as "risk control system because it's my weakness and a bot probably could do it better" leads me to believe that you have not fully thought out exactly what steps...

Forget sales. Every quarter for the past 10 years, Apple has earned between 75% and 100% of all profits in the entire cellphone industry. http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profits/

How is Apple not a government sanctioned monopoly? No other firms can get access to iTunes; No company can sell any Apple device connectors without paying a royalty to Apple. Apple even bans any developers from using and software tools that would allow developing an app that could run on both...

Good analysis of why Yahoo stopped the free quotes service, and why Google will probably stop doing it also: http://blog.intrinio.com/yahoo-finance-api-replacement/#more-5442

That is exactly the same law that they have in China.

My box is located in Milford, CT. I once read that the IB data center is located in Stamford, CT which if true, is about 20 miles from my box.

I fully realize that it takes years to write code or trade proficiently. Not only do I have degrees in Computer Science and Economics, but I wrote part of Nasdaq's trading platform. I gave up my software career 8 years ago, when I started making much more money trading. My niche is that I...

I don't know where you can get the daily percent changes, but the End Of Day Historical Close Prices are available from many sites, some of them free. Check Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, or search this website. Once you have the closing EOD prices, then calculating the daily percent change is...

My mistake. You can deduct up to $3,000 in losses even if you have no gains.

More bad news for you. You won't get to write off $1000 in capital losses. Instead on your taxes you will note that you had the $1000 loss, but the write off will be in future years, against capital gains (assuming you ever get any). My advice is to stop trading, and instead of using many...

One statistical calculation that has really helped my trading is the Pearson Correlation, which measures how closely related two series of numbers are. Result is a single number ranging from 1.0 (perfectly correlated), to 0.0 (perfectly uncorrelated), down to -1.0 (inversely correlated). For...

A year ago, I looked into writing Alexa programs to warn me about market events, or problems with my system. It turned out that Alexa cannot push information, it can only pull; i.e. Alexa could initiate communications. Not sure if that has changed since then. It's far easier to write programs...

Definitions of Gambling: 1. Play games of chance for money; bet. 2. Take risky action in the hope of a desired result. There is nothing wrong with gambling per se. What is wrong is risking money when the odds are not in your favor. Many years ago when I was in college, I had a hallmate who...

In 2004 California implemented a program called ReadyReturn where they calculated your state taxes for you, and if you liked their calculation, you simply had to sign the form and pay the tax. If you didn't like their calculations, you could go back to using the old state forms. They did a...

What in history has ever led you to believe that the Republicans are interested in helping the middle class? The Republican strategy has always been to help businesses and rich donors, and then since they need voters, try to convince the middle class that they will be better off because the...

Because no trading strategy is infinitely scalable; or in layman's terms, there is no strategy that will continue to work as more and more money/traders use the strategy. If that were true, ever trader on this forum would stop day trading, start a hedge fund and make billions using the strategy.

I am not sure how yoga or meditation will help you to think or react faster. I suggest you take up an activity like table tennis that requires quick decisions and movements, plus you will get some exercise. I am not talking about the table tennis that people play in their basements. Check the...