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1) Dialog boxes steal the focus from other apps. This is really annoying, because if you have a too-late-to-cancel and it keeps happening while you are working on some error or emergency, the thing actually prevents you from actively fixing your problem. Those stupid dialog boxes need to be...

I've got a short period of time to take this thing (S7). I bought two prep books and have been reading through the book at about 100 pages a day, getting around 70% on the practice questions. Wondering if you could throw some tips my way, and suggest some books. I've got "Pass the 7" and...

It helps to be paranoid in that you should ask yourself some basic questions, like "Why is the person on the other side of the trade trading with me and is he wrong with respect to my criteria for what I believe to be an efficient price?" I kind of find that to be the fundamental question of...

Stupid q, but do these kinds of stands facilitate different size monitors? I have a few different monitors that aren't the same size I would like to put on the stand. I assume those back mounts are all the same?

I just meant using some 24-hour contract for which I do not have a real subscription, and pretending it's a feed I'd normally work with. I guess I will use the @ES for data to test with.

Looking for recommendations for a 4-monitor setup. I currently have two GeForce GTX 260s for a 2-monitor setup in SLI, but want to disable SLI and go 4 monitor. I am trying to not get caught up in the expensive hardware trap, however. My current two monitors I love a lot and do not want to...

I think having an IB account is worth it just for the paper trade accounts, HFT or not. Can you PM me good hosting spots, btw?

Does IQFeed have some test symbols that spew junk tick data for testing on days like Saturday? Or after stock hours, should I just use an active futures symbol on delayed data? Thanks.

So why can't we trade against each other at the NBBO in US equities? Client A posts a passive order at "IB Internal", client B uses SMART, and SMART checks "IB Internal" first and, you rebate the adder .0010 and charge the remove .0015 (or whatever), instead of now where we end up paying .01 or...

Your answer is disingenuous, IMO. Your implication is that you need to know narrow, specific client information to make money off of your clients. That is definitely not the case, as you and I both know it's adequate to quantify flow on the aggregate to figure out whether it's beneficial to...

I am part of the automated crowd, and I want more flexibility. I don't think OP is unreasonable here. Routing flexibility makes or breaks retail brokerage firms for me. That having been said, yeah, I put longer range signals on IB. But it would be nice if I didn't have to partition flow...

This is a really dated post I'm responding to, but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations that are useful for today.

Tech stuff, not trading. But I felt like he was the sort of person who I could count on to "see things" that other people could not see quickly and felt like 1 of him was worth 3 regular guys.

Smartest guy I know won't leave his 80k job. I tried so hard to get this guy working for me, tried to get people to set him up with >3x his current salary guaranteed, but he just won't budge. He thinks he's changing the world for 80k a year doing the tech work he's doing, but his company's...

Patience. Being a programmer is like being a janitor, except your "shit" is memory management and correct algorithm implementation. Instead of endless toilets, you have endless debugging sessions. Moreover, being a trader is like working at a recycling facility. You're sifting through...

I just wanted to comment on your comment. You are 100% correct. Nothing is more frustrating than spending 3-5 months on one of those retail packages and then finding out that it doesn't quite do what you want, or there's some very specific use case that isn't covered. Those packages are for...

At 1 and -1, you're looking at a deterministic relationship. Assuming no one else knows what you know about this relationship, buy/sell contracts around incorrect prices determined by your perfect knowledge and hope those with inferior information accept your prices, and be the first to do it.

This is an interesting offer. We can discuss over PM, but would care to disclose what sort of solution you opted for? PM is fine for details. I wasn't looking for anything fancy originally. I just didn't want to shell out 1k a month right away for broker colo. My issue is that I -have- to...

I saw your YouTube channel. Do you have a blog also? YouTube is less convenient. I would like to read more about your efforts.

Wait, is this how I acknowledge cancels? I'm trying to map the events accordingly. Sorry for thread spam.