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What ever happened to that s&p death cross that was all over the news? Pattern got reinterpreted to something else?

My statements are not intended to critique your analysis and assumes you are correct, so just trying to provide another perspective. Is your time horizon actually 2 years or could it be 2.5 or 3? It wouldn't be so pleasant to put your entire $10k in to options that will expire in 2 years only...

If they wanted to attack HFT without also impacting retail, they could add cancellation fees when cancellations exceeded a certain limit, increase fees on their raw data feeds, or exempt non-professionals. Any of these would negatively impact HFT without impacting retail. That they've not...

Translating the OP: ohai guys. I'm not looking to get rich quick, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me a high probability way to make 200% return in a year (ignoring compounding or using leverage).

If you're looking for daily data, that's not so bad in terms of cost and size. You can actually scrape a lot of it for free. For example, yahoo finance has free daily historical data and there are some open source scrapers for their data (I've not used any of them, so can't recommend any). For...

You effectively said you want all market data. I think you substantially underestimate how much data that is and how many different assets are out there. You also didn't provide a time frame just a generic "past up to the present". Can you start with what sort of resolution you're looking for...

If you're doing a lot of contracts per trade that's not awful, but if you're trading say 5 at a time, you could do a lot better with IB or lightspeed. IB starts at $0.7/contract with $1 minimum and lightspeed is at $0.6/contract, but depending on the platform there can be different minimums. I...

You also need to consider that good coders who work remotely know that they can compete with US talent and they're going to demand similar wages. If they don't, it's most likely that they either don't have the experience to back up their wage demands or they just flat out know they're not worth...

Is it the same options strategy the prince of nigeria used to amass his fortune? I hear that's a good one.

I heard traders at all US exchanges were told to stay home today. The elites must know something we don't. WW3 and VIX to the moon! Good luck in Wyoming, I'm headed to my secret underground lair in an undisclosed location. ;)

I'm a developer myself (degree in comp eng, minor in math, taught myself software while in high school, did my share of reverse engineering, buffer overflow exploits, and related, so I know software and hardware at a deep level). I've worked with a number of developers over the years (all...

Does ebay still charge $20 when you file a dispute? If so, a lot of people would probably decide to cut their losses and not bother. Seller keeps the $.

And to follow up on tommcginnis' 3% reward / infinite risk. You would have the same risk / reward by simply doing the short straddle and not messing about with the underlying. Ultimately your total profit/loss is the combination of your accounts. Simple algebra should tell you your total...

The brokers who are going to allow you to open an account with $500 commission are probably also going to be around $5/trade commission. This is $10/trade round-trip (meaning buy + sell commissions). With $10 commissions, assuming you trade your entire account ($500), then the commissions alone...

Sounds like a bull put spread. Ignoring the premium received/paid, what you're doing is betting the price stays above 114 (by way of selling the 114 put), but if it goes below 114, you are capping your max loss to $2/share (by way of buying the 112 put). More important than the name is to...

I don't think IB supports what you're wanting. I suspect you're going to require a method of executing an offsetting trade right before expiration -- sell the call or short the stock, but you probably can't short the stock since you have a cash account. Alternatively, sell the call. Look in to...

I had a similar experience. I basically lost a lot of respect for academic researchers when I worked on my 2nd research project. Sure it got accepted by some conference and published in the proceedings, but my work was intentionally simplified before publication. Why intentionally take an idea...

Wasn't it the bankers behind JFK's assassination? ;)

Any trading has risk with any account level, amateur or not. In any case, you need $25k minimum in your account to day trade because of US regulations. For the details of the regulations, read about pattern day trading/trader (PDT) rules.

I forgot to address the footprint bit. While I can't speak to the specifics of chef/puppet/ansible (I'm pretty sure they support this mode as well). Anyway saltstack supports what is called "masterless" mode. In this case, you do not require a separate management server. On their websites...