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Exactly. My point is, 200 is a "test bid". Because I know what to look for, this small amount of risk will tell me what someone is capable of. I would never commit to a project without first seeing some work get done. No one would given the amount of money that might be involved and the future...

Lol... You obviously haven't checked odesk or other programmer sites. I can get a guy for 12/ hour from Hungary or elsewhere. 100/ hour is a lot for something this small.That's being generous.

Well, depends on the skills of the programmer. I do have an engineering back and understand S/W enough to be dangerous as can be seen by my questions on this thread :) . The key here would be integrating this functionality into the current VBA that has some decent functionality already built...

Thanks, I incorrectly said that its a demo account, it is a paper trading account. Sending orders is not an issue, I've been able to do that reliably for some time. What has been occuring over the last several years has been "timing" problems with the portfolio update. Let me explain...

Thanks for this - very useful information. I am still having trouble synching on events, is there any difference in the TWS demo versus the real thing? It seems that no matter what I do, the portfolio update either takes a very long time, or, the request updates call doesn't return. Not sure...

LOL... Maybe we can start with something simple. Take this snippet of code from IB's reference: If Not (objTWSControl Is Nothing) Then If objTWSControl.m_isConnected Then Call objTWSControl.m_TWSControl.reqAccountUpdates(True, "XXXXXXX") End If...

Hello, I'm sure this has been requested before (and likely posted elsewhere); my question is about getting flat by end of day given a variety of circumstances. 1. Is anyone willing to share some code (VBA possibly) that will close all positions when run (a starting point for this...

I have an approach that has grown organically over the last decade. My current setup is about 18 systems that trade all liquid equities and futures. The goal is to have fundamentally opposing strategies that aren't correlated and I've done that to some extent, but, of course there are times...

LOL... My guess is the downside is even worse than these guys are willing to admit. Assuming a high water mark, the investor will get paid over that water mark while not sharing in losses below it. The investor keeps that PnL no matter what; they don't share in any of the drawdown!

Quite a few if you come in with >100k of your own cash as is being discussed here. Some even have separate groups that will fully back traders with no contribution (I think the split is 60/40 in that case). Hold Brothers Echo Schonfield (Opus) Just to name a few. Make the calls and...

So the manager takes all the risk and gets a fraction of the reward. Your business is not sustainable given this skewed arrangement for several reasons: 1. While this is a fit for some individuals, the problem is that by creating such an arrangement you will be attracting a certain type...

You're right. Exclusion is too strong a word. How about "discouraging"? Think about this: if cfa made a public statement that pilots should burn in hell for disobeying the law of gravity, would you still eat there?

Why the hell would any business exclude a potential customer gay, straight, tall, short, black etc etc? What a stupid stupid way to "grow" sales... Am I missing something here? Do the execs at cfa not speak the language of money?

I agree. So what do we do?

Wow... I always thought you were kinda ignorant but this post takes the cake. Pakistan vs. Norway (and throw in Nuclear capability)? Are you really using this example to further some kind of pro-religious argument? FYI, I'm quoting it so you don't edit it out later. You are in dire...

Ok, I think we can discuss this qualitatively. For the sake of discussion, let's assume some things about the act of playing golf; as Ricter menitoned, there are plenty of statistics, but lets just go with some common sense assessments. 1. Golf is an expensive sport. Clubs, green fees, travel...

Please expand on this. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Well, relatively poor is one thing. Being born in a ghetto is another. I would place Tiger's upbringing as stable (his dad was together and *there* to guide him), secure and middle class. There are probably quite a few potential "Tigers" out there.... but, we'll never get to see them reach...

So if Tiger was born 15 years earlier in history; he would've made it into pro-golf? Not picking a fight here, just asking you what you think about this given pro-golf's history.

Would Tiger have made it to the level he's at if he were born to a poor family in a poor neighborhood without unlimited access to a golf course? Tiger got lucky in many many ways. The right father (and family income level) at the right time in history. He got scholarships and advantages as a...