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Yes it's been talked about alot! For example http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3854363 Latency to your broker is also a consideration. Having a reliable VPS, you wonder how you ever survived without it.

I thought the new Puerto Rico law includes short term capital gains.... really the best option for US citizens if you are willing to have a home base in Puerto Rico. http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/law-22-attracting-millionaire-investors-to-puerto-rico-8300.html

Attractiveness is affected by physical health, intelligence is affected by mental health .... so even if it's not politically correct ... there is a your common denominator

Yes it's a big issue. Does your backtester correctly simulate the spreads? Also, for many stocks, the spread could be like $1 in the first few minutes of trading, before settling to $0.25 during the day. So be careful in the morning. Also don't think you can figure out something fancy with limit...

A market bounce here seems "too obvious" ... I think LULU will get down to your entry zone.

That's way too high ... as a guideline look at Interactive Brokers pricing https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590 Prop firms are generally competitive with the IB rate, even if you are a newbie. And if they are keeping 10% of your profits, it can be significantly lower (of...

$7 per thousand?

It says one way they will make money is by having a paid API. Available now to some beta testers, apparently. I inquired about it, maybe a month ago, but didn't hear back.

You can only compare times from the same source. If you difference your time and exchange time, you have no way of knowing what combination of clock difference (maybe you, or they, are 100 micros off), network latency, and processing latency. I think he's saying you can only measure - your...

Good job, but also keep in mind that this analysis is largely a result of the current bull market. Don't let those gains evaporate away.

No, you need "earned income" You need a regular job, or trade through an entity and pay yourself a salary.

What kind of internet connection do you have, and where?

That's just HFT, it happens to everyone Sounds like a bad bug ....

It takes all of 1 trade where you get an unexpected fill or unexpected loss to see something is wrong ... not 1 month and 120k in losses. Just another sore loser (not saying that TDA doesn't have serious problems ...)

How does a 10 year veteran trade an account for 1 month and not notice his quotes are a few minutes behind?

No ... you have to look at it on a percentage basis. Back in the day, if 20% of the market was computer driven, it's a lot easier to retain an edge. Now, if 60-80% are these types of algorithms, it's not so easy. I think dealmaker is right, too many squirrels going after the same nut.

Maybe http://www.tradingview.com/

You can get much lower commissions with a proft split. It's not a scam, just figure out what's best for you ... some places still give 100% payout, too.

soon, we'll see who swallows stuff stuff hook line and sinker.

I'm just excited there's a girl on the forum, I don't even know what she's saying. The market reaction to news can be perverse at every level, we imagine it as guaranteed profits, but even if the move happened over 1 hour time instead of a few seconds or minutes, I bet half of all traders...