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Swiss market ? Is there someone trading this market ? :D

St Moritz ? Is that a joke ? You've never been in Verbier on a 12/31 ! Otherwise Switzerland is definitely boring....but who cares : London, Paris and Milan are 1h flight away from Geneva and the flight ticket is 80$...

Lowest tax rate is definitely Zug. If you look on the net, you will find something about the other cantons. But tax rate in the cantons is not everything. Every city has his own tax rate (usually given as a multiple of the canton rate) and you have to add the federal tax rate. When tax rate is...

You're on the right site. There isn't any 'hedge fund' legislation here in Switzerland. It is classified as a fund with special risks. But this is only if you want to make public advertising. Otherwise, you can do what you want. However, it seems there are preparing a totally new legislation for...

So many traders have such an ego. It seems their only goal in life is to prove they are better than others...

Yes, you need this ID for everything. It is called 'codice fiscale'. Just go there, ask for short-term resident authorisation (permesso di sogiorno) (usually for three months) and then apply for a tax ID. Then you'll keep this ID forever, even if you're not a resident anymore.

His problem is precisely that he cannot compound exponentially. Even if he realizes a performance of 15%/month, That would leave him with a 4500$/month gain. From that gain, he has to pay taxes and living expenses, leaving perhaps 450$/month, which would be a meager 1.5%/month, not exactly the...

ivolatility.com has historical volatility available as far as I can remember.

See my answer above and read some books...:)

UNIX based systems. Linux, solaris, BSD, etc...

I wish the internet was working so well... It would be more efficient. The problem is it hasn't been designed like this at the beginning.

For a moment, yes. And in one hour, 10 days ? Sure it won't be the same anymore.

If you have a dedicated line, I do agree. Otherwise, if you go through the internet you can't know. It could go through Australia.

Personnaly, I've never experienced such a problem with TWS, and this is something I'm doing every day, a minimum of 20 times a day. Perhaps the concern isn't a TWS problem, but something else. The OS for example. I hope you don't trust windows for your trading operations.

Typically entering a wrong limit price for orders. As an exemple, NQ around 1500. Entering a buy limit order @ 1598 rather than 1498.....

Any double taxation agreement with US ? Otherwise you'll have to pay taxes on your gains in US.

Being a blonde with huge breasts could help too... :D

That's what I heard too. I knew people who where buying a flat in 5 or even more and kept it for years unused. Then it was said you can ask for a residency there after a given number of years. But that's only a 'I heard that'. Not to be taken as a truth.

I don't know. I'm not interested in prop trading. You better forget about Geneva however. There it's all about private banking and 8%/year returns...

This was a federal (not cantonal) court decision and this was back at the end of the 90s, when tax administrations thought they could make a fortune taxing capital gains....since then things changed... As an example, let me tell you about a guy in Zurich who lost a fortune trading in 2000 and...