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I only have windows 10 home running inside https://www.virtualbox.org/ on Ubuntu sometimes. Don't use it daily. Startup is pretty fast on SSDs (sub 10sec I would guess).

Eventually yes but from the manual: "In Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise, you can choose to pause updates from being downloaded and installed. This option isn’t available in other versions of Windows 10, however, including Window 10 Home: Select the Start button, then select Settings...

W10 Pro allows you to delay/schedule updates properly doesn't it?

It's not the speed of the market that undermined trend following it's the lack of economic volatility since the GFC. Historically very big drivers of trend following performance have been interest rates and currencies. If you believe economic volatility will return, bet on trend followers, if...

The point is that false breakouts and real breakouts occur in such a way as to not in themselves provide any edge. This is another way of saying that mean-reversion and range-expansion happen with near random/non-stable patterns. One suggestion: only take false-down-breakout entries when going...

If you right-click and do 'check margin' on that order, the initial margin is about 261k, 238k maintenance

If you have worse risk/reward than buy and hold but you are -100% correlated to buy and hold your overall portfolio performance would be better than buy and hold.

In other words, accept you are going to f*ck it up again. It will happen. When you see it happening, really embrace that pain and cut your loss. Over time with luck you will catch yourself earlier and earlier in the process. Own your emotions. Don't fight them.

Self-commandments like this are a way of ensuring you enter into a cycle of self-loathing. Like dieting, or abstaining from alcohol and falling off the wagon. Just accept the emotional sting of losing - it's fine it hurts, embrace the hurt! Allow yourself enough time to get back to an even keel...

I say this in general for bank level IT. I expect IB is exactly like this and given how <cough> paranoid Mr Petterfy is about margined accounts I expect they are pretty hot on IT security.

Right but where every query can easily be tracked. Anyway, people don't have permissions to prod databases per se. For example it's typical if you really need access to prod in an emergency to have to get higher up approval for a one time access that expires. Both you and your manager's...

Sort of but anyone who has worked in a bank or broker will tell you it's not that easy to do. Systems are locked down pretty tight these days. Ports are closed. You can't just tunnel out over ssh to do whatever you like either. Https won't help. People track what's happening on your PC. People...

No I don't. That's why I posted that webmd page partly as a troll... Seriously the market's randomness will find you out and test your mental stability. There's a reason why traders tend to have so many bonkers opinions. They've projected the randomness and apparent vindictiveness of the market...

There's a difference between reasonable caution and being paranoid that an organisation several thousand times your size would try to front run your trades on the basis that they thought you were profitable. Front running is and always has been about getting in front of large orders. Saves you...

Suggested reading: https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/features/why-feel-paranoid#1

What a ridiculous thread. I despair, really... :banghead:

If you go to the latest or offline download page there's a link at the bottom for "other operating systems".

IB TWS works on Linux/Ubuntu. As does Sierracharts under Wine.

Isn't interactive brokers something like $10 per month for all US futures? You want cheaper than that?

So open interest fell both short-covering day (Friday) and retrace day (Monday)...though open interest over all has been rising reasonably strongly since December. But net positions shows no strong bias. Hmmm...