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lol excel is great. say cells A1 to A10 are filled. formula in B1 is "=A1" and you want to copy this down to B10. do the following: 1) select B1 2) ctrl-c to copy 3) shift + left arrow (cells A1 and B1 are selected) 5) don't release shift, press "end" key and then press the down...

bravo. face it people. the world uses Windows, so use stuff that's going to work well with Windows.

sure it's possible. if it's posssible for this to happen via a wired connection then why wouldn't it be possible for it to happen via wireless connection? in general, wireless is less secure than wired.

the quickest and most direct way to learn programming as it relates to trading is to find online tutorials. if you buy financial engineering programming books you will find that they don't teach what you want to learn. most of those types of books teach you how to write a program that price...

you are not wasting time. don't let anyone tell you visual basic can only do "basic" things or isn't powerful enough. that's all baloney.

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are you talking about pro-rata order matching where a larger order will get a bigger share of fills? or is there more to it than that?

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Norton Internet Security already has a firewall in it. you don't need 2 firewalls, so either use Norton or Zonealarm, but not both. they will just conflict with each other. also, make sure you disable the Windows firewall after you install your own. the programs may automatically disable it...

lol pardon my ignorance, why wouldn't anyone want to do this?

are there any brokers that allow vwap orders for futures?

pretty soon google will go the way of Yahoo and HP. sales & marketing will rule the company and the technology people will be considered backoffice IT. the founders won't care that much anymore because they are already so rich from the IPO. their ownership % has also been diluted so they are...

what does that equate to in terms of $s. for futures and stocks?

then perhaps the premium commission more than covers the variance X. what is the typical commission for VWAP orders?

as far as i know it is not possible for the algorithm to capture the exact VWAP price. there is always a variance of X on top of VWAP. oops in my first post i meant to say VWAP + X. Edit: to clarify further, one broker's algorithm may have a higher X than the other. i am asking what is...

How can one measure whether a particular VWAP algorithm is good or bad? I am assuming that all algorithms give a VWAP - X price. What is a good/average/bad X?

thanks. i guess this is why it's all about presentation and marketing. the person who can do the best job convincing the allocator verbally is going to get the money.

jessie, how do you know if you correlate with others? how do you find data to do the analysis?

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