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    Interactive Brokers Spread/Pricing

    Are y'all saying that banks on the IB ecn don't have to honor their posted bid/offer if you hit it with a marketable limit order? Or is someone else just hitting it before you?
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    Interactive Brokers: TWS P&L Automation

    You could do it in Excel and trigger it with a macro.
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    Homeless Executive Lives Off of Rewards Points

    The bankruptcy trustee doesn't want your frequent flyer miles. They're not generally transferable and they are void on sale/barter.
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    Homeless Executive Lives Off of Rewards Points

    Not a bad backup plan. I will also plan on roaming the halls of the hotel to eat leftover french fries and collect miniature Tabasco bottles off the room service carts.
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    The Stigma of Daytrading Lives

    Tell them you manage your investments. You don't have to use the word daytrading.
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    How to convince wife to let me trade full time?

    You sound like an excellent candidate for full-time trading. One thing is, do you have the ability to go back to what you were doing before if you fail or just don't like trading?
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    Why not offer an options market for homes?

    Probably will never work as an exchange-traded product as houses are not all identical. And as an OTC product, like the previous poster said, they're too hard to hedge so they'll be expensive. Everyone has an implied put option who lives in a non-recourse state and is financed 100% to start...
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    Buffett 20% annualized gains over 45 years

    Its much harder to keep up the pace now that he's putting billions to work.
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    Amibroker expert: please help ...

    Buy the program. You won't be disappointed.
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    Where do I find Amibroker sample systems?

    The software is definitely worth $250. You could barely buy Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop at that price point.
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    Where do I find Amibroker sample systems?

    There's tons of stuff on the Amibroker site.
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    Which book has Amibroker sample codes?

    He's got an "Introduction to Amibroker" there that I didn't know about too.
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    Which book has Amibroker sample codes?

    I've got this guy's book and it's pretty thorough. I don't have any programming skills though, so it's still pretty hard. http://www.quantitativetradingsystems.com/book.html
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    Bond trading with IB

    You have to sign up for the market data for it, but I think it's included in the non-professional package that everyone gets.
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    Many borrowers in default stay put as lenders delay evictions

    If you live in a recourse state, you can be forced to pay. But most of the people in bad trouble don't have the assets to pay anyway.
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    Sell more than 100 trading books

    Toby Crabel book?
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    perception, taste, and people's priorities

    Interesting. I'm not sure how fair of an experiment it is, based on the relative obscurity of the artist and the setting in which he was playing. If it was Madonna in a mall instead of Josh Bell in a subway station, the reaction would have been a little different.
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    How to be a Guru in 10 easy Steps

    Found his divorce. Struck out on the employee lawsuit. Must be under seal. I respect the guy and this borders on stalking, so no thanks. His published works will have to do.
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    Backtested FX Carry trading systems?

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1505842
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    IB paper statements

    i got some today. They were advisor client accounts. I suspect they did this for all sub-accounts as an anti-fraud measure.
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