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Hi, one more question: in the post, you talked a lot about connection to the clearing firms, and the comparison of different clearing firms. Does that mean when you moves to institutional account, you become your own broker? Since IB offer institutional account, why not use IB instead...

Many thanks for your post. it is really helpful. when you say trading shanghai under institutional account, what instruments do you mean? shanghai equity index? is that available from IB or other brokers? besides, I have no idea what you mean when you say institutional trader has access...

what is the benefit than trading your own account?

trading equity curve is similar to trading synthetic stocks, not easier.

they transferred their broker business to wang investment. I do not know why they quit the broker business. I thought they were doing good job in broker business. any one knows the reason?

I think you should not put too much emphasis on op's English, because English is not his first language. On the other hand, English has nothing to do with the quality of the scientific research. if you write in Chinese, I believe you would make more errors. actually, I do not believe op's...

that only means you did not understand my post. the purpose of my post said PhD is nothing, thus, listing my phd from yale or Princeton has no meaning. On the other hand, I am not looking for a job, so i do not need to say where exactly I graduated from. I never feel proud I have a phd from...

I have a phd from an ivy league univ. i remember a few times at group meeting, my adivsor, who is a well known scientist, member of American science academy, said that even a homeless on the street over the corner, if persistent enough, could get a phd, which made our morale sad at that time for...

I have a phd, but I consider myself so far successful. james simons, de shaw,etc, they are even professors

good to know. many thanks.

Is redi available for retail trader to use? I am interested in its API.

in terms of system trading, Phd could have some advantage. for manual discretionary trading, i agree with you.

Could you post the statistics of your performance, such as on emini ES, the average winning ticks per round trade. holding time, the number of trades per day, limit or market order, etc, so that we can have an estimate. talking from my own background, I was a staff scientist from a national...

do you have idea what is the upload and download speed of the internet via phone company? it can be checked from http://www.speedtest.net

nice idea. but I doubt it is easier than timing the market itself.

Don, when you said "We still enter a couple of million shares each morning", how many shares of them will be filled on average? I heard the liquidity has dried up for open orders.

RENN is just shit. it is packaged as chinese facebook, in fact, renn has no much influence in china. renn has a market capital as sohu, but sohu is much more popular than renn. renn is attractive because of its low price. but it is market cap is still too high. it could be worth 1/10 of its...

when an apple iphone prototype lost in china manufacture company, the man who was in charge of the iphone was beaten by the security officer badly and under so great pressure that he killed himself.

which companies offer colocation to IB ?

As I said two years ago, OPG strategy is almost dead. it does not worth effort.