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Maybe they offer lower commissions... Otherwise, a number of US brokers may offer access to certain Europen products for the convenience of their US customers. You know, global reach and all that jazz.

It has to do with allowing trading on UK exchanges (LSE, LIFFE, LME). By opening a UK subsidiary a broker becomes subject to the UK regulatory regime. Brokers that have no business in the UK (which in particular means they don't advertise or solicit clients in the UK) still can accept UK...

Add MB Trading. Regarding Tradestation, I am pretty sure you can supply indicators/strategies as a DLL.

UK has a distinct regulatory regime. So, a broker pretty much has to open an office there and get licensed with the local regulator (FSA). Both parts are costly. A number of large broker like MB Trading accept accounts from anywhwere in Europe and almost anywhere in the world excluding the UK...

If quotes are supplied via COM from another application there may be a more appropriate way to ensure your application is treated as single-threaded. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/cominterop.aspx#Threading

Microsoft has a long and glorious history of limiting software to their own platform. Let's see if Skype will work on new Android phones in a couple of years.

This is not entirely true. Look at just a few news stories from summer 2009, when storing oil nearly became the next "big thing": JPMorgan Hires Supertanker for Storage Barclays books super tanker to store gas oil -trade Oil Traders Seek Another 10 Tankers, Frontline Says Oil Stored On...

This is indeed the case for many higher-end ATI cards. Normally such a laptop would have 2 digital monitor connections, say, HDMI and DysplayPort. If you are going to buy a laptop in a shop, ask the staff to connect the laptop on diplay to 2 mobitors and see if it works :)

"Trade" also means "profession". Hint: the oldest trade is not plumber or dentist.

These requirements are pretty basic. The last time I checked the only popular trading platform that didn't support these was TradeStation. P. S. People call software for automating trading strategies "trading platform". "Trading system" is usually synonymous to trading strategy.

This picture would be good for thread Pictures of your trading stations

History demonstrates that at least one determined nutjob is required to break the equilibrium where all the palms are greased.

A basket of currencies as a common denominator has been used for some time in investment products. Think of US Dollar index as a popular example. Is SDR just another name for a basket of currencies?

For this hedge funds don't need 2 accounts, or selling to themsleves. They can just borrow a security for a specific term and sell it later at their convenience (or not sell if the fund manager changes his/her mind). It's in a retail account where in order to borrow stock one has to sell the...

Wash sale is about paying tax... not actual trading. So, as long as you file tax paperwork right, this is not a problem. On the other hand, wash trade is when a trader sells to him/herself in order to mislead the market by creating trade volume. First, this is not a serious risk for a...

For a moment I was excited about this idea. On a second thought, IMF is a true "non-profit" organisation. Unlike states, IMF doesn't report spending versus receivables and only gives away the money it has... on the condition the borrowing countries follow strict colonial rules. As the head of...

No connection that I can see. However, it's one view on Dodd Frank act Gcapman mentioned

It all depends on the laptop model and the battery (many laptops can use batteries of different capacity). I wouldn't concentrate on the brand.

It's just very easy to "over-optimise" so that the resulting backtest is a result of pure datamining. The reason to run the system with the same parameters on different instruments is to see if the underlying idea has merit. The earthquake disaster produced powerful trends. It explains why...

The quote is from Workshy to be forced to clean up the streets in bid to get them into good habits