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You mean Investment Banks or Interactive Brokers? If interactive, where is it that they calculate a price with it?

False. Yahoo does not get the auction print (for NYSE, I dont know for anything else). Most of the time it is ok. It is sometimes off by 20-30 cents on a 30-50$ stock.

Walk through the middle office.

They had a crisis 10 years ago, is it still there?

The forex, more than anything else, can stay irrational than you can stay solvent. But with the proper betting size and risk management, there are things to be done.

I do something around that but it requires no hedging as the OP asked about. From what I have read somehwere, they use hedging because they get in both sides and when the account goes up or down a certain amount they close one leg and ride the other. A good way to pay more in spreads, lol. It...

Trade station acts as a broker. If you dont trade a minimum per month you are charged a platform fee. It's all on their website. http://www.tradestation.com/brokerage/platform_fees.shtm

Dont forget that over the last 3 months we have been under the same market conditions. Also, the advantage in pairs trading come from diversification. Spread the risk over many pairs and your overall risk decreasses (assuming trades are uncorrelated).

You could even automate the orders.

Walt, you can use the IB Excel API. I made a sample for you. 1- Install the API component from IB website. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=programInterface&ib_entity=llc 2- Enable API in TWS: DDE for Excel/Configure the Application to Support API Components...

If I get this right, thoses are index. So you would want to backtest or analyse with tradable assets like SPY:IWM. Understand the fundamentals. One is large cap, the other small cap. So there can be a drift from time to time because of fondamental changes in the supply/demand for those sectors...

No thoughts. I dont really care who's over and who's under. (lol). Minus the numerical approximations, I think it should be very close. One thing I do is that I have a filter where I dont trade ratios over 5 or lower than 0.2 so it cancels out the possibility of numerical imprecisions.

I like it beause often there are some overnight reversal gaps. I think some do it because the PTF backtest feature is based on close prices so to follow the logic they trade on the close. But I also trade at different time of the day. If you could scan in the first 5 minutes (I dont) I think...

Out IWS:IJR on small profit.

As per the SEC rules for retail the maximum leverage is 4. Now you can join a prop firm or trade CFDs or "spread betting". CFDs and spreads bets are legal in London, look for CMC Markets as an example. For prop firms there are many that offer remote trading with leverage; Bright as an example...

No, people forget the past and as soon as the market goes up the circus can come back. As for the CDOs, the number of issues went from hundreds of billion (2004) to about nothing (2008) but I dont know what is going on right now. I was a real gimick.

Passing: APC:SWN EXC:CNP (div)

Out IYR:IWN at a profit. Smaller profit than targeted, as usual.

I may be done trading OPGs. I will trade this month expiration day and may or may not come back on september.

Business scalled up quite fast. TraderZones where are you?