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I've started and run a couple of technology startups. Here is my advice on seed capital and giving an equity stake to early investors: IF these are good investors (ie Goldman Sachs, some well known money manager etc.) you should not hesitate to give them a sizable chunk of your company. Even in...

just ran a couple of tests under Linux with the chat room software: Java 1.3.1 works fine Java 1.4.0 does not load chat software I believe tntneo said he had it working with 1.4, but that's certainly not the case here. No big deal. Just proving info.

Baron, I'm not sure that's the case. I'm behind several layers of firewalls and have logged in many times.

In the positive spirit of your reply, here is what I'd like to see in QChart: JavaScript (ala eSignal) indicators with ability to issue orders. Same request for eSignal, obviously.

now, why would you want to replace one quote feed that doesn't work (IB's) with another that doesn't work (Quote.com).? beats me ...

Amen! I found it extremely important to get dressed as if you were going to an office. This took me a while to "figure out", since I'm in California and it's pretty early in the morning when the market opens. But having breakfast, etc. prior to the 6:30 open has made a difference for me.

I truly enjoy trading out of my home office. I've never traded at an office, but have worked in an office environment for many (many) years. The real benefit of trading, imho, is that you can avoid the commute, don't need anyone around you, and generally manage your day and time as you want...

After reading a lot about money management and implementing several strategies, i have found that the most important thing is to "equalize" risk across trades. i.e. make sure that all trades risk the same amount of your capital. Risk can be calculated in many different ways, such as standard...

I have one case where I could document an IB stop on the NYSE should have been activated, where it wasn't. That was a few months ago. Has been good since then. I believe that IB has some logic in the stops requiring multiple bid/asks at the stop limit to avoid wild ECN quotes from triggering...

bungrider, it's tough. Here is what I do. I update my stops every 30 mins or so and just minimize my account manager. That way I can't see how its going. After using that technique for more than a year, I've gotten much better at not interferring with my systems. Even better; put on...

I would say that one of the biggests risks is slippage (outside mini's, SP and US). Combined with roll over, many long term systems really don't hold up with real transaction costs, while they look good with continous contracts. Also, I just don't like the slowness of the pits; which is...

My experience too. Lots of 1xn or nx1, too depending on the micro trend at the moment. "Adapt or pay up", isn't that the rule of the game?

I just don't understand why anyone even try to use Quote.com for live trading. My experience was that there were outages all the time, missing quotes etc. I switched back to eSignal ... much better The only real value of Quote.com is their tick database.

I think that there is merit a strategy being diluted when it becomes "well known". E.g after O'Shaughnessy's published his what works on wall street in the mid 90s, many of his best strategies lost their edge. So did the performance of the funds under his management. I don't know about the...

i have used both linksys and netgear. I found that the firewalls in netgear is slightly better, FWIW. Netgear tends to be a bit more expensive. let me add: routing and firewall are two different things (per the original question). Simple network translation (NAT) will often work as a simple...

just another thought: I trade a portfolio, so while I try to limit each positions loss to say $250 (depending on system), I will sometimes liquidate if the entire portfolio is up or down more than say 1% [some flexibility applied, depending on strength/weakness of the market on that particular day]

xstek, I trade both NYSE and NASDAQ and a few options once in a while. I never rely on IB quotes. I have eSignal that I feed into my own charting and trading software. I generally just use market orders, since it's often difficult to manage a large number of limit orders, and for my...

I trade for a living and use IB, so I disagree with your statement. It's a matter of trading style. I trade with computerized portfolios and often trade 10 to 30 stocks in smaller quantities (300 to 800 shares each). It's simply too expensive to use brokers with fixed charges, such as...

I'm running ESignal and TWS behind ZoneAlarm. Works fine. Nothing special required.

I had the same thing happen once. It turned out there was a file I need to delete in the eSignal directory. eSignal probably terminated incorrectly and a live config file was incorrect. Tech supported helped me and knew of the exact cause. I load up eSignal after the open all the time and...