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Your manual trading doesn't run in a datacenter. What's the difference? There's nothing magic about the fact that the computer entered your order instead of your rapid fire mouse finger.

At home I have a Dell server running Linux with redundant power supplies and a UPS on each power supply, each plugged into a different circuit. TWS runs on my desktop with a UPS. 1Gbps fiber from AT&T. This setup is dramatically cheaper than a cloud based server. It pays for itself in just a...

"Using a server" is too vague. What do you mean exactly?

This would be great if NinjaTrader magically allowed you to execute the logic and use any possible data. But it's limited.

Crypto strategy: 1) Buy BTC and ETH, 2) Move to personal wallet, 3) Lock your private key in a safe, 4) Ignore it for a decade.

IB is excellent for automated trading. I use Java but Python works if you are a Python guy. Everything is run on my own hardware and software including testing. If you rent a VPS or server then you must be aware that someone else has access to your strategy and results.

I've collected test data on this from thousands of trades using an algorithm and software I developed to try and optimize order fills. The punchline is that there is no free lunch. Market makers are way ahead of you. Getting a better price is not nearly as simple as just getting into the...

The TWS API works ok for small amounts of data but it is not designed as a data provider. They state this in the documentation too. It'll fill in a chart or provide a quote. If you want all quotes, bid/ask changes, etc. you just can't get that reliably from IB and should not expect it.

Correct. There are different options for communications and you are not required to use the public internet.

The FIX protocol is between you and IB, so they are still a bottleneck. If you intend to connect over the public internet then you still must use the TWS gateway as a intermediary to use the FIX protocol. Trades are during regular market hours only. This may be a faster more robust solution...

The IB API isn't providing anywhere near under 1 ms trade executions for me and I have almost the identical setup as you (polygon, IB, Java, Linux, 1 Gbps). You can try directed orders as opposed to SMART routed orders and you would think orders sent straight to NASDAQ would execute faster but...

Consistently profitable traders would not be likely to open an account at Myforexfunds.com or similar places. Those numbers probably over represent failed traders.

This would be quite easy. I'm already pulling data in real-time from polygon.io each day to run my trading algorithms. You could get an indicator starting at 9:31. The indicator would update after each minute and produce a less volatile prediction as each minute went by. If you tell me just...

Your solution to all this is mean and standard deviation. But when it comes to stocks everything correlates to some degree and your math makes the assumption that all events are independent. When market volatility picks up all correlations move towards 1. "back testing" without knowing ahead...

You are basically doing nonlinear regression on a set of data. You hope your resulting function offers some predictive power in the future. But you have no idea how much of the data you used to create the function was noise and how much of it was the signal you are attempting to model...

AI is just pattern matching, not magic. Both a cheater and a profitable trader who is not cheating will each be a glaring outlier. I've designed and trained some neural networks and I can show you academic research dealing with this huge AI problem: Distinguishing between two targets that...

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Accuracy is hardly the only qualifier for determining information to be insider.

The entire defi market might work best if there were businesses that inspected smart contracts and bid on insurance. An insured wormhole or other complex system might gain more confidence and the resulting insurance business would be incentivized to find weaknesses before some guy in his...

Correct. They need to investigate fraud without respect to which side of the trade someone is on. Please just let people trade based on what they foresee for a company, but if someone is spewing inaccurate info about a company in an effort to move the stock price then go after them for that alone.