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The securities business is very secretive. That is... Successful players NEVER talk specifics. In contrast... Amateurs, losers, and wannabees are always blabbing about their worthless "systems"... And clogging up places like this. Also... Legions of people just want to sell you...

The best FREE anti-virus is Avast... A commercial product widely used in Europe and available in 12 languages... But FREE for home use... and updated almost DAILY automatically. www.avast.com Norton/Macfee/Symantec view an installation as a LICENSE TO TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER... They...

Every era has it's wild-eyed futurists. In 1970 it was Alvin Toffler... today it's Kurzweil. Has anybody bothered to check Alvin's 1970 "Future Shock" predictions? In addition... very importantly... We are in an era where Talk Radio is dominated by completely ridiculous UFO and...

Yes. Good point. You need someone with significant experience... Designing and coding real-time, event-driven, asynchronous, fault tolerant systems. This can be in various fields... such as communications, etc In general... I would not recommend hiring a wannabe trader... Beause that...

Major issue: Software development is such as esoteric field... That I do not see how a non-engineer... Could even evaluate programming talent. One is very likely to have mediocre people bullsh*t you about what they can do... And waste your time/money.

This is nonsense. Talented people are in ultra-high demand... and do not work cheap.

This is a good answer. As a 13 year pro trader and 23 year software engineer... And about 1000 hours into... and halfway through building a sophisticated IB API ATS platform... (1) On the difficulty scale ATS is 8 to 9. (2) I would never even consider hiring anyone with less than...

Thank you everyone for your amateur hysterics. Just doing the standard CEO process... Of learning everything I can about the Cyberspace Security quagmire... Regardless of whose delicate little toes I may step on... Before I get professional advice from my Law Firm and/or Auditor... And...

This does not make much sense to me. The Specialists feed off the most liquid stocks... Exactly the ones where there is only ONE reason on earth to "create liquidity"... And that is to SKIM MONEY via their elaborate Rackets. If the field is really level... And the NYSE cannot find a way...

This sounds very retrictive and strange... Maybe something you might see for small cash accounts. With a margin account at IB... I cannot think of anything where settlement date has any significant effect. The only time I even think about it... Is for dividend plays to get the ex-date...

I appreciate this general response... But when I called the Institutional Service Desk today... They were unable to tell me if IB has "anti-fraud" insurance of any kind. I need to know the exact specifics of your insurance coverage... THAT IS MY JOB.

You obviously do not have a significant amount of money to worry about... And do not seem to understand the concept of anti-fraud insurance. "Freedom is another word... for nothing left to lose". Kris Kristofferson

After "15 years"... They do not have significant web traffic. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.fmlabs.com This is should always be a cause for caution.

ETrade provides what looks like comprehensive anti-fraud insurance: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,107865,00.html If IB does not have similar coverage... You really have to wonder what they are smoking.

ONE bank account that funds can be wired to... or a short list... ** IS 100% SECURE **... If authorization has to be done by a signed paper document... Examined by a clerk... And can be verified by a phone call. Total cost to IB... 10 minutes of a clerk's time... They can bill me...

You misunderstood my post. Perhaps finding your glasses might help. I am a software engineer by profession... I had a security token for years with a New York clearing firm... And in no way did I imply that "it doesn't work"... or whatever you are talking about. I have a 7 figure...

This week I received an IB "Security Alert"... Which reels of 6-7 total horror stories of ** only competitors ** accounts being hijacked... And then tries to pressure you to sign up for... A "security token"... often called a "key fob"... which is primitive 90s technology. This "security...

Every Canadian resident trading a US account must supply one of 2 things: (1) US Tax ID or (2) One of 3 W8 forms. This is so that US residents cannot evade taxes by opening Canadian broker accounts. If you do so... There will be 15% withholding on dividends... If not... 30%...

The last 3 have near zero traffic... You really should get an Alexa toolbar. Good looking sites with zero traffic are very common... But a waste of time. Also... an "ECN" with no liquidity is like Track is Deadsville.

As a practical matter... Guys like this are incredibly secretive... The information they feed the media is usually an artful head fake... And most of their great plays were done decades ago. As a general rule... Anyone who is not secretive... Is not telling or selling you anything of...