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Most states have a rule that you must be available and actively looking for work to qualify for compensation. Trading gains are "unearned income" and should not, by itself, affect unemployment benefits. If you claim trader status on your taxes, that might look like you're trying to run a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_trading

My experience has been that there is no path you can take that will assure that you become successful. Some people trade all their life and never make it. How then can you know whether it's worth a try? The answer is that you may never know. Most people who try, simply lose interest. They...

The worry comes from the fear that your "good setups" aren't all that good. When the setups are good, the worry dissipates.

You can do that in Excel 2002 with this: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010346091033.aspx

I always suspected I went to the wrong college. DAMN! Now I know I did.

It's not clear what your point is. If you put the Schonfeld quote in context, it's clear that they're simply pruning the smaller players. I'm not that familiar with Schonfeld, but there are obviously many Wall Street firms that are not interested in doing business with "little people". It's...

$20 on $200k is 10%, and that's not bad for 2009. The past 18 months or so have been "unusual", probably the worst of the computer age. The secret to this business is to stay in business.

It kind of reminds me of the jerk in school who used to crash the campus computer whenever he didn't have his project done on time.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-microbes-clean-up-oil-spills

That's pretty impressive, especially considering this is the worst investment market of our lifetime. Congratulations! I'm only 63 +7 months, so I didn't vote. I average about a dozen turns per day, mostly automated. The biggest change as I have gotten older is that I am much more...

Any kind of a value (i.e. low p/e) strategy will be very sensitive to survivorship bias. Conversely, it probably doesn't matter much with the short-term momentum strategies like they talk about here. ETers are a bunch of gunslingers. CSI (http://www.csidata.com/) claims they never delete...

If I go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and execute the command, it's 32-bit. Anywhere else, it's 64-bit.

I'm running Win7 Home, Java 1.6.0_18, TWS 901.3 (1/4/2010). Both of these command lines work: C:\windows\system32\javaw.exe -cp jts.jar;pluginsupport.jar;hsqldb.jar;jcommon-1.0.12.jar;jfreechart-1.0.9.jar;jhall.jar;other.jar;riskfeed.jar;rss.jar -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Xmx512M...

It looks like you have a 32-bit version of Vista installed. Since it's a new computer, you might consider installing Win7 instead.

It looks like they rearranged info on their web site. Cost info is here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/accounts/fees/minimumDeposits.php -- click on "Connection minimums" tab Also click on "Connection Type" at the bottom of the page, then click on the CTCI FIX tab for more info...

That's interesting, but I'm not sure what the benefit would be except for less resource utilization. Computer hardware is *very* cheap these days.

I tried doing an ACH transfer into my account, and my bank couldn't process it. So I did a wire transfer instead. The money cleared within two hours. The only negative was that I had to visit the bank. ACH transfer out always goes smoothly.

I have been using NOD32 for several years. I turned off the splash screen and tagging of emails, which are on by default. On my old computer, I sometimes disabled NOD32 temporarily while I did big file transfers or downloads. So far, my new system has been fast enough that I haven't bothered...

I traded options before, a long time ago. I recent started trading options again, and I found IB's OptionTrader to be very powerful. It does pretty much everything I want. Check out their webinar on it.