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Check out the video below for a few laughs as Wall Street's suits are interviewed by a young charming girl. http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/07/todays_love_fearless_kid_takes_on_wall_streets_suits.html

Feel free to call them and ask for your own arrangement, but here is what I have been told. First off, they clear through separate entities like Goldman and Penson. Due to these relationships a minimum account of $500,000 is usually needed. However, the key number is how many shares you trade...

LMAO I was just thinking the same thing. Except how I would be a billionaire. Starting with predicting the energy rally/bubble from Jan 08 to Jul 08 (I owned CHK during this time). Maybe I could have increased my money to 3x (using options and other plays, obviously more if I wanted)...

How do you suggest I route the orders then?

On one particular order: It shows 1,200 shares were sold at the exact same time (and price) I placed a SMART hidden sell order of 5,000 shares through Interactive Brokers (IB) right at the bid price. Of the 1,200 sold only 400 were mine. 200@ARCA 100@DirectEdge 100@ISE Kind of weird...

I also have problems with displayed limit orders disappearing on me when I try to execute large trades at the displayed limit price. For example, say a stock has a best bid of 10.20 with 3000 shares shown at that price. When I try to sell let's say 3000 shares at that price many times none of my...

Hey Guys, I would like to start a friendly thread specifically aimed at reducing a trader’s bid-ask spread costs along with price impact costs. I am focused on reducing spread and impact costs when exiting a position for no reason other than to free money for other trades (In other words I...

Ghost of Cutten, To think we did that independently at approximately the same time. Further evidence our idea may have some validity. Smart minds think alike. Best, jjs235

You got screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would be unbelievably pissed off as well, you have my sympathy. The 60% cutoff was BS, unless this is a specific rule NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX stocks have. Which it is not, from my knowledge. I believe both sides should have been canceled as well. Here is what...

VBA is probably the easiest language to start out with for automating trading strategies. Their is a yahoo group devoted to helping out individuals on the cusp of learning vba trading strategies (google it). Interactive brokers provides an API platform for VBA within Excel. You can find the...

Read this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181368&highlight=talon+trading Thank talontrading for showing you how to become profitable. It's teaching a man to fish instead of just giving him enough to survive for the short term.

Going to a local community college or teaching yourself are the best bang for your buck. I personally took a JAVA class at a community college to fill a prereq for grad school and it was more than enough to code trading applications years later.

Soon I will be starting my own trading journal and post weekly results like neke. I can't post trades however, only $ gains or losses. What else could I add to make it more interesting in your opinion? I need to keep what I do esoteric, since I mainly trade small caps. My trading style is like...

In the time series return the orange line is me, and the purple line is the S&P 500 market weighted.

Verification.

I want other people to post their results, for amusement and obviously to see what opportunities I may have ahead of me, and thus I will post mine. I started trading at the end of August 2008 and made many mistakes like overleveraging right before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Also, I didn't...

Good thread talontrading, I would also like to say ignore the jackasses. I have seen the same type of response when I try to provide help, and it pisses me the $%#@!!!!! off. Market conditions are random once accounting for the data that puts these market conditions in a certain bucket of...

Or you could have the law of averages aka the law of large numbers on your side. Along with geometric averages of course! Index piker I totally see where you are coming from. I have a financial engineering degree from one of the Ivies and most of my professors would agree with you. I also am...

I am looking for a data source to supply me with the last price for 5000 ticker symbols to feed to my automated trading systems. Preferably it would be in real time, but can be delayed as much as one minute. Eventually this data needs to be turned into a text file, if it isn't already in one, so...

I'm very interested in learning the answers to these questions as well. Can anyone out there help? Thanks.