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From a data prospective, I'd pick Thompson-Reuters over Bloomberg any day of the week. From a trading platform prospective, I have no experience.

I'm going to build an ago that tweets/posts all my long positions to help drive some upward pressure into them.

Maybe a short here and there tomorrow morning.

I certainly don't consider myself a pro, but I have to be honest that considering the zero sum game that is most trading, anyone being truthful would have to desire new entrants to the business. If you want to earn dividends and stock gains through buybacks, by all means act like a good person...

One more. A lot of platforms will let you set alerts quite easily. If you're tempted to make a trade but aren't totally sure, just set an alert. If it dings with whatever hit, you'll know you were right. If it doesn't hit the alert, then you can study what you did wrong. This is mainly for...

Plenty of people doing plenty of things, but I would make these observations. This is just me personally, I'm sure others will disagree or offer their own advice. - Avoid forex until you have a reliable and consistent 6 month paper trading track record. After that, you'll probably ditch forex...

Sounds like some hedge fun.

Nevermind, I think I see the differences.

I'm in process of switching to IB, so I'm trying to understand a few things. On the fixed pricing, I see that the minimum per-order is $1 (so a buy/sell is $2). On the tiered structure though, there isn't a specified minimum spelled out too clearly, it's tucked as a footnote (#3): So is it...

It can do zero commission trades? I want to see an HFT firm with a hundred iPhones nestled behind a server somewhere running this thing.

I'm not trying to be chicken little about it, it's just above my personal risk tolerance. I've seen ratios that ~20% of the FX market is retail speculators; I'm not sure whether that's volume or trades, or both. But the idea that 20% of a market is actually 0.1% (removing the leverage), means...

Don't forget: it looks cool.

Volatility in the short term for sure, but honestly the whole fx "market" seems like a house of cards. 200:1 to 1000:1 leverage, poorly capitalized brokers. Seems more like digital bucket shops. That a publicly traded and transparent broker should get impacted like this really shocking...

Every time someone rebalances their 401k they'll pay 10 basis points on the balance? This includes target date funds and even index funds that rebalance. Genius.

This was pretty good. "Check out this trend line, we're fine...."

I liked that one a lot too. I think if anyone's looking for a book that they set down on the desk and flip through the pages while writing some code, close the book, run the program and make money, they're out of their minds. But the author did a terrific job, as you said, of laying out the...

Microsoft's Azure platform has pretty good monitoring built in.

I've been poking around more in multiple exchanges and ECNs, and am seeing the fairly large spread that can exist between them. I'll see roughly 12 exchanges or ECNs issuing quotes from the IQFeed. Does ThinkOrSwim source from the public exchanges and ECNs, and then just report in the last...

Ditto for the "discretionary" trading community (ie: people using their hands to click and type trades), in that for every trader there are two websites promoting some awesome formula for success, half of which are fairly well spelled out in detail. But like you said, if you ask a quant/algo...

It's interesting coming from computer science and software development land, where everything is fairly open source. Looking at something like facebook, the actual source code used to build it is largely irrelevant: the implementation is what matters so much. I think you could probably get three...