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No that list will never be OK to base a strategy on. The reason is that it contains almost exclusively the wrong kind of companies. Its full of junk that nobody actually wants to trade. Meanwhile its deliberately taken out every possible tradeable stock so that in essence you cant trades tocks...

I understand what people will say. They will say that the guy who is bidding doesnt own the shares. Hence you have to borrow them from someone to complete the transaction. What I want to know is why thats neccessary if we both have posiitive account balances. Surely there is really only a matter...

OK then explain this to me. Why does IB need to locate the shares to allow you to short a stock when they are really only supposed to be a trade FACILITATOR. What I mean is that if theres 700 shares sitting there on the bid and I want to execute a short against them then why do they need to...

How could anybody at IB trade stock with a list like that? They may as well just close down that portion of their business because that list is an abomination. And its not good enough to make excuses when people rely on trading for their income. They are clearly too corrupt to allow even basic...

7771 shortable at genesis... http://www.gndt.com/support/shortlist.htm

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Also make sure that your graphics drivers are up to date as they bring out new drivers every couple of weeks. If its an Nvidia google the nvidia website.

You need to incorporate midpoint calculation into your triggering methodology otherwise your stops will get run. Two bars can have the same midpoint value with totally different bid/asks.

I havent tried PFG currenex but I did google it a while back and found a couple of posts which I found unnerving. As a possible alternative I thought maybe Alaron currenex. Anybody use this by any chance?

The reason that I consider it so critical is because it can lead to mistakes being made in creating bars. For example if Im drawing 1 minute bars and my ATS thinks its 59 seconds and the trading server is a full second ahead and is already drawing the next bar (ie1:00) then the quotes that...

Yeah thats a common msconception. Theres a demo trader which is what your thinking of. And boy it sucks really badly. Its not real time for one thing. However if you have an account there you can apply for a paper trading account which is real time and works very well. For example Ill get 14...

IB has a good paper trader. Im curious if anybody knows if REDI plus has a paper trader facilty and if so if its any good.

Then they sanction alcohol which also causes massive health problems like damage to livers, loss of fine motor coordination, nervous system damage etc. Its really degrading to have a society that basically deigns to dictate to full grown adults what they can and cant do. In the end thats not...

I mean Ive been over this one before. I dont see why when your implementing a standard for communicating between 2 computers ( a server and a host) that you dont provide a way of synching the 2 clocks together. It just doesnt make sense any other way. I mean even slight differences in the way...

From what I can see though according to the link you posted the transaction on both sides are governed by UTC (universal time coordinated). so intheory they should match perfectly. The time issue is one whch really drives me nuts because I know how prone to phase shifting IB's clock is and would...

Thanks for the suggestions. Ill take a look. My concern is that if you synchronise your clock with an outside source like NTP network time instead of with the trading server itself then your basically allowing latency to creep into your system if theres even a small difference between trading...

I have a question regarding quickfix engine that Id like answered. Does anybody know specifically what message type I need to use in order to synchronise my programs internal time clock with the brokers server internal time clock? I cant seem too find a message that I can use to loop a request...

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One thing that you might like to do is check that the rates you are being quoted include all fees for ECN routing and pass throughs. Because if they dont then those rates are very high. You can get .05 a share and even .04 a share retail these days all in. At IB they are quoting .0029 for ECN...

Actually I think Lakshmi is probably buying at these levels and may even consider privatising the whole company since he holds the majority stake. Thats what I would do here. Then he has 15+ Billion a year of free cash flow. I cant believe how cheap its gotten. Im only young so Ive never really...