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It is not web based at all. (Although they are beta testing a limited web access version for those who want that). In my experience, TradeStation is one of the most reputable companies in the business. They are now owned by the Japanese Monex brokerage giant, which also owns brokers in...

I would separate the two. They do not overlap that much. Local accountants who can provide a full range of services and advice on an ongoing basis on general business issues are relatively cheap. Traders tax advice is expensive. I would just use Robert Green phone consultations for the...

If someone is accessing your computer remotely, it is likely to be a hacker.

Be careful. Many reviews say it is underpowered, sluggish and slow. Trading software needs a more powerful CPU than the Surface has.

Post this on TradeStation's Forum.

Personally I would doubt that a system designed to trade off futures or stocks could work trading directly off a derivative (options) that is less liquid than the underlying, if that is what is being looked at. All the real action would appear to be in the underlying, with the options just...

Well, you do not have the USD margin required then, do you? You are going to have to borrow it as far as I can see. Now, the CME itself allows margin to be posted in multiple currencies, but I do not think that IB is going to do so. I could be wrong.

It is true that you can split your cash into many currencies. However, only USD cash can be used to buy US stocks and futures (except by borrowing and paying interest). Only Euro cash can be used to buy European stocks (except by borrowing and paying interest). etc. So if you want to...

Yes they are there. See http://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Options+Strategies Not all brokers quote them.

Very nice! I did notice at the time that the volatility in the deferred months died quickly......

Just in case you or anyone comes back to R, there is a new fread in data.table 1.8.7 on rforge (not yet in the default distribution but you can get it from rforge) that figures almost everything by itself and is lightening fast. Date format transformations can be done too in the other readers...

Another route is to hire a local accountant and consult with Robert Green on strategy only.........

Thanks - those are outstanding charts and they show the differences between the two years very clearly. I guess this also shows that things are never the same the second time. If one had traded 2012 expecting that the initial implied volatility peak would be the maximum, as in 1988, one...

As you say, this past summer, grains implied volatility never got much above 40%. But purchasing calls, even well into the move, would have made huge amounts of money, because the move continued. So it seems those options remained underpriced for a long time. I am not sure why. Would...

Re the interface, I would suggest StatET with Eclipse. Or RStudio if you do not know Eclipse. StatET for example has a visual debugger, object inspector, table viewer, graphics management etc...... Fitting a curve to a set of points should be doable in R....

If that is the total table size I would just read it all into memory. I have never had it crash and have much larger in-memory data. I am not using SQL Server though, or any database except flat files.

I use it and it runs fine. (Mainly I use Chrome though).

I have never looked at what (if anything) Wikipedia says on the subject. All of what I said was based solely on many years of personal experience. I was only responding in the first place to someone who asked if there was anything that could match Visual Studio. My answer is yes, but...

I would not say that at all. Visual Studio has some fine and unique features. Both are fine IDE's.

Why do you continually attempt to insult and discredit other posters and trivialize their comments? It is very disappointing. Stop it. Let's try to have a civilized conversation. I mentioned several things. I do not have the time to explain in detail what Perspectives are in detail...