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Background: I've been working at hedge funds (HF) as quant strategist / trader for last 12 years. I don't have enough saved to start my own HF, but over the 12 years I have saved decent enough to consider the option of quitting my job and "trading for a living". Questions: I was...

Regarding (1) above, does ISE also have a similar thing where one can see all the spreads for any particular ticker etc.? Also, does any other exchange have a similar complex order book or system?

Thanks. 1. I didn't quite understand the "electronically see" part properly. On the ISE & the CBOE Complex Order Books, for spreads / complex orders, am I trading (a) against say a market-makers' algorithm or (b) am I trading against a person who is hired by a market-maker firm and this...

Can anyone tell me which option exchanges can handle spreads or complex option orders natively? On IB, I find that whenever IB smart routing some of my spread / complex option traders to AMEX - I get a pretty bad fill no matter what I do. For some strange reason, IB never picks ISE for...

That's not true. The problem is that most of India is earthquake prone.

i wish i could. sadly, when i first learnt coding, it was in an era of fortran, pascal, c and cobol . since, then i have moved on to other things in life and wasn't able to keep pace with newer stuff like java or .net. on weekends, kids occupy my time and on weekdays, management level work...

Another question: does Quant2IB run on Windows 64-bit? Thanks.

I have a two questions about trading IB using Matlab and if there is anyone on these forums who uses Quant2IB that would be really helpful. So far, I haven't used Quant2IB, but thinking to use it 1. On their product overview page http://www.exchangeapi.com/ProductOverview.htm it states that...

are you referring to CitiFXPro or DBFX?

Three questions: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Question # 1: Which is better in terms of bid-ask spread? (a) buy the SSF directly incurring the full bid-ask spread? or (b) first buy the ETFs on the spot market and then sell an EFP? I want to...

hardcore IT stuff = something that a person with a math or stat background may not be able to do. for instance, a person with a math or stat background is highly likely to have worked on matlab but not in c++/java etc.

I have some requirements for automated trading. I am a bit too lazy to learn C++ or Java - would rather spend time on the logic of the algo, than on the hardcore IT codes. My preference is to use something like Matlab for automated trading. There seems to be two alternatives from the net...

For a couple of reasons: (i) I have a strategy that works with desired characteristics when I hold a large number of stocks - close to 100, but with less than 10 stocks, the portfolio has too much of individual stock specific risks and the strategy is not that good. So it is basically, more...

Basically, I would like to do something like this on some platform: (a) At the beginning of the 1st month or week etc, do the following (i) rank all the US stocks by some indicator such as RSI (ii) select the top 10 best stocks (iii) buy the top stocks in some proportion like...

Thanks for the post on Wikipedia. I figured out IB very aggresively deletes negative comment posts from its forums. I AM ALSO BIT TOO CONCERNED ABOUT TAX BLOTCHES ... CAN ANYONE SHED A BIT MORE LIGHT ON THIS ASPECT?

Thanks for the replies... So let me get it straight - suppose I have a margin account where I have say $1000 - and I make purchases of $900, I will still get accrued interest payments ? How is that possible ? The cash balance covers all the purchases ?

I used to trade futures with Refco till early 2004 when my firm put in a personal trading policy and I had to stop trading. Recently, my firm allowed Index based products with a 30 day holding periods and I was reconsidering to start personal trading. I plan to trade (i) ETFs (ii) Index...