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+1. to the OP, pls take this advice and just be done with it. there is no point in continuing this thread b/c you WILL wind up in a lot of trouble if you try to do anything you shouldn't. unless you're day trading you don't need a the size of a desktop/laptop that you'd have at work anyways...

my last comment b/c i think we've answered all the op's questions and i don't think there's any more value add in discussing bbg's specific contracts...re multiple persons at once computer like you said...they don't want you doing that and they'd be pissed if they found out...obviously a lot of...

bbg anywhere REQUIRES the portable thumbprint device to prevent people from piggybacking. mike bloomberg has thought of everything.

call them directly and ask for a free trial. the price they give you is the price they give you. there is no negotiating. it runs around $1900 per month w/ a 2 year contract payable quarterly. do NOT try to piggyback on a current bbg user. you will be sued into oblivion. others have...

i read about a hedge fund recently that took a huge loss shorting CHF b/c "it went too high". by def if you keep shorting something as it keeps going up you have no risk management. investors should know the manager can do bonehead things like this when they sign the scrip docs and wire $. a...

if the background color is that big of a deal, here's the solution: same as above w/ the addition of using ninja for charting using ib's feed.

just use ib for execution and tos for analytics and be done w/ it

http://martinkronicle.com/2010/06/21/trend-followers-the-widowmaker/ read the comment at the end of the article by michael. this is an good topic for discussion if anyone's interested.

+1. Snakeeye, I seriously hope you're joking re zeroes. They have the highest duration of any fixed income instrument - in layman's terms you'd blow up if rates went up all in the name of "earning a little income". This topic has come up so many times over the past few years w/ rates so...

+1. In this instance I would stand on my porch/front yard w/ an AK and say "no one can come in unless they can help me optimize my trend following system to account for chop or if you're a proud member of ET (I'd look up your handle before letting you in)." :cool:

traders get in a lot of trouble trading based on what they think should happen than what is actually happening. if the crack spread is trending up buy the crack spread, period. if it breaks the uptrend, exit or short.

+1. A black swan will come along one day and the market will gap down 5% during EST market hours. Options are the best way to hedge since stops will be useless. stops were useless the morning of 9/11 since the ES gapped down. can you imagine how bad it would've been for all the people...

it's not just the mkts available - it's what you pay to trade them. stick with ib. you will not find another broker w/ the coverage, low costs and security of funds - period.

this topic has been beaten to death. here are the two most popular options. i prefer the first one since the second one means you have to pay the thieves in d.c. SE tax which in a lot of cases wipes out any benefit from reduced commissions. trade less (increase reward/risk ratio) reduce...

to make things very simple for everyone here are the best options IMHO: buy dell precision, pay middle of range compared to below options, good support from usa, buy from specialty co., pay most but have absolute best support and never worry about anything build your own, pay least, no...

AFAIK, you can't just buy any video card - it must be supported by the motherboard (e.g. you can't buy a cheap off the shelf cpu and buy a top of the line card). pls correct me if i'm wrong.

unless i'm reading this wrong AFAIK, it's 1000. (see OP links to cme). the micro is 1 barrel (IMO that is too small). your commissions will be ridiculous trading these things. my prediction: the volume will never be there and the product will slowly fade away.

+1. for the vast majority of independent traders (and all superstar paper traders) a bbg is overkill. i've never heard of a single trader using more than 10% of bbg's functionality. if you're trading off technicals like most of us i suspect just get the following and be done w/ it: a really...

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from the research i've done (one of the benefits of being single - you can spend time trading AND researching dual wan routers!), the peplink is for all intents and purposes the highest quality router on the retail side (i know there are some CSCO one that are more expensive but that's more on...