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Start by throwing away technical analysis & most directional punts. Leave that exotica for customers.

Done :)

Maybe, but I wouldn't be paying for a help desk then. :p

They don't survive in a trading floor. Maybe at apple building i-somethings & having farting contests.

Spend the money on: Latency Stability Better data - real-time and historical. Don't spend the money on silly TA charting features for low value accounts.

+1 Best to beat the other guy, but only by a whisker.

There's a ginormous elephant of dark liquidity out there. You can't see it, because it's dark. Again, not rocket science.

On a good day :p

Sometimes you have to pay the spread, to lock in the talent.

And annoyingly, it's that Nanex / Zero Hedge level of analysis that the media listens to. Blind leading the blind regulating the world. Think I read somewhere that the SEC has bought Nanex's product. Irony at its best.

Well .. in my world .. walking away with $665 million after only "a few good years" is absolutely positively killin it.

Thinkorswim, yes. TDAmeritrade no. Only a matter of time before TD entirely ruins the TOS part, imho.

As someone who attended "a good university", then "a good grad school", a couple of times.. I think it mostly comes down to aptitude determining success within the automated-trading-industrial-complex. For example, a few of the better coders I know have undergraduate business degrees...

Because this is a power grab by the traditional market making firms. HFT is bad. You should stop all of that and give the flow to us. And exempt us from the txn tax. Rent seeking regulatory capture.

I disagree with this. While some people say as above, the reality is firms just want strong coders. And, no IT manager will hire a guy with more markets domain knowledge than himself. "Real world".

You're making the big bucks trading with this stuff. .. so on which are you making the bigger bucks??

This guy gets a boner dreaming about working for a regulator. Not that there’s anything wrong with that

Touche! :cool:

"TA units in banks" .. LOL :p

TA is a great sales tool. Draw some lines that a 6 year old could understand, and it generates flow. Most of that flow pays the spread. So, TA works just fine :D