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With FFT in place it is easier to manipulate price levels with lower volumes ant the market collapse will not materialize. On top of that exempt banks will be well funded by regulators/fed to keep market steady. With FFT there are 2 questions - when it will be implemented and what is plan B...

above is another idiotic .... zdreg - that is nice but unnecessary. Of course trading bonds involve trading lots in hundred thousand dollars and is largely institutional now. However, that what this taxing scheme wants to achieve - take money away from the economy and channel it into...

Where there is tax there are exemptions and loopholes - to give advantage to some and extort others. I have read somewhere that EU government bonds will be exempt(unconfirmed). So we will channel our money into government bond and become bond traders or as proxy we may use currency markets...

Tax is coming because there is more interest in it from major political and economic players. Recent letter to UK government from 50 financiers including Wall Street firms calls for the tax to stem short term speculation and enhance market stability. The underlying lie is that this money...

Try to have some work done using Windows 8 and you may be less enthusiastic.

HFT is being used to keep free market hostage to bureaucratic control. Most people do not understand the microstructure of the market and how the trading is being done. They confuse investing with trading and entitlement with risk. Free markets are under siege. If you look at the list you should...

They probably found out that there is no money in analyzing past data (even I they are 1 second old or less) because markets are randomized these days and lots of money is spent to hide tracks.

IB data is free if you have account with them an have sufficient funds (inactivity fee) and is for 100 RT symbols or more if you trade more. There is also newly introduced paid market data service. Sampling does matter because it cuts out some quotes and they are missing in the bar data or...

IB data are from US exchanges but this is not true tick feed. The data is throttled and sampled about 4 times a second to keep customer quote board updating even during spike in market activity. The difference should not be very big and should be even less for bar data than for tick data but it...

To buy a country you need corrupt politicians and they are cheap. China is interested in stronger presence in Europe and want access to markets and technologies from Europe since most of the US know-how has been already acquired by China. Greece could serve as back door to Europe and they might...

Greece is corrupt and communist minded. All handouts date back to cold war when they were trying to turn communist (nobody remembers that old story). To keep them in NATO and keep Russians from getting foothold in strategic area Greeks got free money for decades to keep them happy and keep the...

For best performance tick data access and search has to be custom designed with pre-programmed fields matching specific requirements and computer memory based with no or minimal I/O operations. It has to be very simple and rudimentary approach suited for live market action. Commercial products...

GB and US - if they fail to derail euro because they are the really ones who are bankrupt - economies that have been exported abroad and huge deficits. In fact euro model is the future model for reserve currency when no country can print money as they please. The euro crisis means that...

interactivebrokers is one of the choices for .net / java / c++

The core of western economy success was free flow of capital. Capital gains are already taxed and for active traders it is taxed as income. FFT is double tax and it taxes FLOW of capital. FFT restricts free economy and changes capital into government budget. Most importantly where there is tax...

Hard to admit but .NET is becoming real challenge for all others on IDE side and available resources and most importantly program performance. It looks like C# will finally succeed as main programming language for Windows platform. The only problem is that many programmers were burnt in...