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Proprietary trading experience will do absolutely nothing to get you hired at a bank or hedge fund.

I would find it very hard to trust a firm that does not publish a standard commission schedule.

I agree with your points A, B, and C. I am sure that the original poster appreciates your insightful response also. Here I disagree with you. The term "business school" does not automatically mean that there is an MBA designation, although some MBA designations are certainly acceptable...

Your choice of undergraduate major or double major is going to do very little to help you get a competitive position at an investment bank or hedge fund. Those firms are looking for top candidates from top graduate programs. My advice to you would be to forgo the double major entirely in favor...

Speakeasy is offering T1 for $299 a month now.

Advancement in computer science ended in 1999 and 2000?

Mark, I recommend the Macbook Pro 15 or 17 with maximum RAM. If you are concerned about switching to OS X, you are free to run Windows. IMO, this is the best deal for the price,performance, size tradeoff.

Let me send you my closed form solution for put pricing while I am at it.

Yes indeed setting up a broker-dealer is an insurmountable task. That is why no one does it. Oh, wait...

Hardly. The start-up and net capital requirements vary based on the type of business you want to run, so you should look in to it. The largest expense is the operating cost when you take on customer accounts. Also, I should note that the requirements are not all the different from a hedge...

Where is the data that shows that "95% of traders lose"?

Why not just set up your own broker-dealer?

You managed to revive an antiquated stereotype about the hearing and vision impaired while declaring me "dumb" for expecting proactive communication from a major financial institution. Wow, nice one! If you think that having this two-factor authentication actually does anything to improve...

It is not the secure authentication that bothers me, lack of communication, and the implementation. I thought that Interactive Brokers was supposed to be a technology driven firm. Why does Etrade have this nice key-chain sized token while Interactive Brokers has a ridiculous calculator-sized...

We are an institutional client of IB that signed up for the STP system some time ago. Today we received a notice that STP would be required for authenticating traders in one week with a one day grace period. This is the first notice of any change that we have received. That is totally...

IBM ?

You obviously have no idea what you are doing. Why not just buy and hold or refrain from investing entirely? Please just send the remaining $17,000 to me if you do not want it.

Some questions for Elite observers: Using just the data posted here on this trading journal: 1. What is the probability that this account will reach $500,000 before reaching $0 or a negative number? 2. Would you fire this trader or increase his bonus?

Sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Gann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci

Black, Scholes, and Merton called. They want their equation back.