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Congrats on your superb performance, lescor. Watching you recover steadily from the misstep four weeks ago is truly an eye-opener. Could you possibly elaborate on your spy hedge yesterday? (1) When did you put it on? (2) Did it match your total stock exposure? (3) Was the main purpose of...

Thanks all the same, atticus. Some of your posts like the following 1987-related one really inspire us to think more deeply about risk. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2036993#post2036993 If you've any anecdotes about May 6, esp. with numbers, please share them with...

Fascinating stuff, atticus. Can you possibly elaborate on: (1) The equity-and-EUR/JPY correlation. Is this approach essentially mean-reversion based? (2) The nature and content of the price-weighted basket. Thanks in advance!

Will Jim O’Neill have to eat his words or be shown as prescient? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1fXeQHg8Y_s&pos=4 The overwhelming bias against the euro currently in financial markets may be a sign that the currency is about to rally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief...

Very good points, Cutten. Can you possibly compare IB's policy to another large broker, say, MF Global?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azkwzCzFj0hQ&pos=2 With a Treasury Secretary like Geithner, who needs terrorists...

kiwi, do you prefer 20 for security or performance reasons? Thanks.

Would high jitter in this context be a consequence of high packet loss, gov? Thanks.

Based on 122.00 SPY?

Excellent article. Thanks for the link, tradecalm.

Scataphagos Would you mind taking a look to see what temperatures the three NVS 295 GPUs run at after the PC has been running for some time? Can you also mention the ambient temperature by way of reference? I assume you use an X58 motherboard driving two x16 and one x1 NVS 295 cards...

The most recent NVIDIA driver supporting the NVS 400. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24_2.html This driver doesn't work with the NVS 450 (or 290/295, for that matter).

What sort of latency and packet loss do you get on a Sprint 4G connection - best and worst case scenarios? Thanks.

moarla Can you possibly be more specific about the conditions under which IB TWS disconnects and the consequences? Presumably, when this happens, price data transmission will be very briefly interrupted but TWS will attempt to re-connect automatically. In particular, if the TWS...

Does the Radeon 5450 have a version which supports three displays in digital mode (say, 2 DVI and 1 DisplayPort), or is it limited to 1 DVI, 1 VGA and 1 DVI (with HDMI-to-DVI adaptor)?

Nice. The Dell 2007FP is a true 1600x1200 classic. How do you plan to mount/position the top two horizontally above the others? With an Ergotron stand or the like?

Interesting. Which charting program would that be? Is it multi-threaded?

Thanks for the clear, helpful pointers, PocketChange.

Again, thanks for your feedback, guys. Nothing remotely like HFT here. :) Just another run-of-the-mill discretionary trader. Reading between the lines (of your comments), it seems that any latency not exceeding 500ms may be acceptable in practical terms. Fair comment?

Thanks for your reply. My query concerns what level of latency would be acceptable in a real-world environment from a trader's perspective. Just want to get some practical feedback from fellow ETers.