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Because it is a Buy Stop Market, it basically robs you of the spread. Your buy stop is 100, it reaches the point where bid is 100, ask is 101, your market order is placed, you buy at 101. Instead place a Buy Stop Limit order. Stop at 100, limit at 100. Then, when bid reaches 100, your order...

Let's say you want to block www.google.com in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ there is a file hosts. Edit it with your notepad. At the end add a line 127.0.0.1 www.google.com

Aquarius: in other directions, some code development gets perverse. My example is kdb and "q" language. Yes, kdb may be ultra fast. Yes, the point of pride seems to be that the number of lines of code for the database was tiny. Yes, for people with apparently many more brain wrinkles than I...

He can easily prove he is Satoshi, if he is. There is a huge wallet that belongs to Satoshi that has not been touched forever. All he has to do is pre-announce that he will transfer 1BTC out of it on a certain date, then do it.

GAT, I agree. Thing is, a hobby programmer can get away with stuff somewhat-working or good-enough. A (good) professional programmer has to get things exactly right. The client will not agree with "it mostly works and that 1% of the time that it doesn't, you just re-run it and it works". And...

AFAIU, it is a bureaucratic snafu listing the shares. Once the reference number is applied for, COIN will be relisted.

:) I am lucky. I started in 1978, I have only worked in big corporate environments mostly as a consultant/contractor (and when an employee, a fairly independent one), and I also have been a my-own-boss-programmer for the last 22 years. And if corp. programming is not fun (and I am sure there...

If you hate programming, you were not suited to be a programmer from the beginning... I always pity people who got into programming not because of their inclinations but because of the $. Programming is horribly tedious/boring unless you are born to program. But if you are, it's fun.

For now I made it reset itself to Close when it goes <=0. But in googling around, I haven't seen anyone mention this problem. Weird.

Here is the formula, supposedly (from Investopedia): It works ok for smallish price variations, but let's say the price suddenly goes down - a lot - maybe 75%, and stays there. Then the 4th power of Close/MDi-1 becomes tiny, the new MD becomes a fairly big negative, and repeated several times...

It is not that. As I said, it is a friction point for the customer. For other brokerages, in our application, all they have to do is enter their existing login credentials, just like on the brokerage web site. With Alpaca, they would have an additional step of going to the web site and creating...

... also some strange strike prices may happen because of splits.

... if you say so. Those are not brokerages we looked at, not our market. And at least Baxter didn't bother to update their SSL certificate.

Neither Refinitiv nor Bloomberg are retail brokerages. If you know of a retail brokerage that requires an API key before its clients can connect to their API, please tell.

Ah I just looked again and in order to use Alpaca API the brokerage client has to create an API key. No other stock brokerage that I know of does that, this is usually what cyber exchanges do. It would be a friction point for our app's clients to do that. Yes, it is pretty simple to do, but it...

guru: I program Medved Trader - so I am quite familiar with all the different brokers' APIs. We started way back by reverse-engineering Datek's and Scottrade's feeds by sniffing the traffic and figuring it out :) And back then bandwidth was at a premium so the feeds were bit-compressed etc. Why...

I don't know about Alpaca, but I have used literally a dozen of brokers' APIs and among them the "professional" IB is absolutely the worst. Various wrappers may make it more manageable for people, but the API itself sucks. It was not designed well in the first place and the way it organically...

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684901927/Trade-Stock-Tokens-on-Binance?ref=JLI1VBLA&utm_source=BinanceTwitter&utm_medium=GlobalSocial&utm_campaign=GlobalSocial "Today, we are launching zero-commission, tradable stock tokens. Now, you can access both cryptocurrency and traditional...

:) We have the feature of C#-based user-written code. Not C++. The code is dynamically compiled, so can be easily changed and debugged. The first thing you describe is available - it is called "paintbars" and "scans" - basically user-written C# code that can utilize any of the program supported...

(j_medved is my brother :)) We also have a Websocket streaming API that allows the user to subscribe to streaming data from and trade through any of the sources. When you say "custom stuff" - are you talking about custom indicators? Or something that uses the data, alerts etc. and trades based...