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    Real Americans ONLY

    I bet there is someone out there who has something crazy like 10 legal citizenships. I would guess 5 or 6 is probably possible pretty easily depending on your family history etc... 1 - Father's citizenship 1 - Mother's citizenship 1 - Country born in 1 - Country grown up in assuming...
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    Real Americans ONLY

    Actually this is not 100% correct. If you obtain it through birth or legally through naturalization (i.e. meet all requirements) then you can never truly relinquish your citizenship. The US Supreme Court has ruled on this specific issue so there is case law supporting it. Now if you obtained it...
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    how to get around the pattern day trading rule

    If you trade CFDs in London you get around the stamp duty tax.
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    ES fill price anomaly question

    Do you execute through a broker or have DMA? If you go through a broker then check with them because they might have some type of smart routing algo.
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    46.3 million Americans without health insurance

    You should read my initial post before commenting numpty! I stated in my initial post I have been exposed to private, military and no insurance in the US. Plus I have been exposed to private insurance and the NHS in England. I fall in to a very small percentage of the world's population...
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    46.3 million Americans without health insurance

    You are a moron and part of what is wrong with the US! My kid was sick for 3 days before we took him to the doctor. When we took him he had 105 temperature. We were using OTC medicine and the pharmacist said that we should bring the child to a doctor. He past whatever he had onto my wife as...
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    Copyright law on historical data

    Can you provide a link please? I believe CME charges for this information.
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    46.3 million Americans without health insurance

    I spent 4 years in the USMC and the medical coverage provided by the miltary was pretty good. I was never seriously sick either. When I got out I didn't have any medical coverage but I was covered by the VA. I did use the VA service at West-Side and thought it was okay. I have also visited...
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    Stat Arb: Pair Trading (US Equity)

    Interesting idea but probably unlikely. I would try to find a way to arb it. Another approach is to try to MM those securities. If you can find away to incorporate that into your model that would help significantly. Plus increase the amount of times a security appears in a pair. Then...
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    Let's discuss academic research on mean-reverting trading strategies...

    I keep seeing intradaybill mention that if co-integration exists then so does correllation. Nothing could be further from the truth. People who pairs trade trade co-integration! They do not trade correllation! In general if you find a pair that is co-integrated, then most likely it will be...
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    Morons Become Victims in $50 Million Scam to Sell Gold Bullion

    Anyone want to make 10x their investment in a month. I invest in banks. Just send me a check. :)
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    Automated trading for those without a programming background?

    From a pure programming POV you would rather work with an integer instead of a double. It's much faster and then convert it back when you need to display it etc...
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    Mean Reversion Survey

    I was wondering on average how many pairs you guys trade concurrently at any given point in time. Currently we (2 guys) trade between us 170 pairs actively. We are planning on extending this to 300 pairs in the next month. In theory we would like to get to a thousand pairs. I was wondering if...
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    Has Anyone TRADED at any of these firms? Comments?

    I had a friend that worked at Harrision for a couple years. He seemed to like it and had no complaints which I can remember.
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