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Fair enough, given the shops he's looking at. But I suspect even at those firms some of their top traders are now automated and not in the office anymore. I know it's true at my firm. Bottom line, I highly doubt you're going to get to sit next to a top trader, why would the firm want to...

So my point didn't apply if my analogy is bad?

Dear CEO of Coca Cola, I really want to become successful in the soft drink industry. I'd like your secret recipe, I'd be willing to give you a cut of my profits once I get going. Wait, on second thought, that sounds kind of ridiculous, how about I just hang out in the factory to pick your...

Don't your 2 paragraphs contradict themselves? You ended up making the case that it was a matter of leverage and reserves and more strict regulation would have prevented a lot of our problems.

People seem to have a hard time understanding that it was the leverage not the bad loans that put us in the situation we are in. Make enough bad loans, you go out of business. That's as far as the damage from the housing bubble should have gone. But it didn't stop there. We went to the brink...

When you generate an order and a Client order ID for it you need to save that ID somewhere for use later. This somewhere is called a variable. Preferably you need to use an array or maybe a hashtable. I store it as part of an object I created. Regardless, it needs to be some sort of data...

Apology accepted. WarEagle was spot on. You've taken your latency issues as far as you need to if you are manual trading. As long as your connection is reliable I would not worry about connectivity anymore.

I gave a serious reply. But your response lost you any chance for elaboration.

Have you run a ping test between your brain and your keyboard?

I agree with your assessment that Eric's "sample" is biased because he hangs out with people who have similar personalities. However, I know Eric personally and IMO his motivation is not what you say. I think he's a genuine guy who felt like giving something back. I don't think he needed any...

Excel DDE is slow, you may not be happy with its performance. I do not run completely automated in Excel, though I use it at time for lots of complicated calculations that I want to "see". But you may find your Excel solution adequate for now as you learn. VB6 is 4 generations old now. It's...

When you stop being humble you stop looking for the next landmine you might step on. When you stop being thrifty you might not survive the next dry spell. As for the rich guys you read about in market wizards. You have a built-in bias in that book leaning toward people who welcome the...

Sandybestdog, You might find this helpful, a step by step guide to writing programs in VB.net 2008. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/default.aspx VB.net 2008 express is free and will do everything you need for the far forseeable future. It is what I use for my programs. The...

I just moved to a new house and redid my office setup from scratch. A friend turned me on to this and I am happy with it. A bit on the spendy side but might be worth it since it is a home office (my wife appreciates that it looks nice)...

That wasn't me offering you the code sample with those things, but they are things you would benefit from learning about. So now it's sinking in that this stuff is a little too hard to learn by just doing it and I'm the bad guy? Sheesh. We're practically pointing you down the best path and...

All I'm doing is offering you advice to get you where you want to go more quickly and without blowing yourself up. Sorry if I offended you.

No, just doing it isn't always the best way to learn something. Would you learn how to defuse bombs by just doing it? How about surgery? Our advice was not to learn the language, it was to learn the language first. Let me point out one other thing. The reason you kept trying to put "Bid" for...

So if a guy standing next to an open can of gasoline asks YOU for help learning to light matches would you just help him or warn him he's standing next to gasoline? What if he didn't seem to fully understand how flammable gasoline is? Would you repeat your warning? Sterling has ZERO support...

I have no idea, it might be something specific to the basket trader itself, which I've never used. I haven't seen the example you are referring to either. But really, you should at least understand what the different datatypes are in VB. Your question would have had an obvious answer if you...

Look dude, there's a big difference between being skeptical and SH*TTING all over an otherwise civil discussion. Hopefully some day you'll grow up and understand the difference.