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Oh you are right. "Interest (including OID) received by U.S. nonresidents on obligations of the U.S. government (e.g., Treasury bills, notes and bonds) which were issued after July 18, 1984 (“portfolio interest” obligations) is generally exempt from U.S. withholding tax, as long as a Form...

Here is a more detailed description of what to do: "Gowdiak and Chou each recommended that users run Firefox or Chrome, both of which provide a feature dubbed "click-to-play" that requires the user to explicitly authorize a plug-in's execution. In Chrome, the setting is under the advanced...

Trading in futures will not give rise to U.S. tax either unless interest or dividends are paid (for example, on T Bills).

Gambling as in roulette, poker, horse racing, etc. NOT including stock "speculation". I already said above that only dividends and interest are subject to U.S. tax depending on the country. Trading by foreigners is not taxed as such. People from all over the world buy and sell U.S. stocks...

R using quantstrat. It includes complete portfolio back-testing. http://blog.fosstrading.com/2011/08/introduction-to-quantstrat.html

True gambling - stocks are not included.

W8-BEN is indeed the form to claim Tax Treaty benefits of a reduced rate of holding but you still have to know what those "benefits" are for your own particular country. You did not specify what *country* you are a resident of and this is critical since countries, not continents, enter into...

I meant Oracle not Sun.....

By the way Sun has now sent out a patch for this exposure which you can install by checking for updates from the Java control panel. But personally as mentioned I use Chrome and disable all plugins, including Flash and Java etc. You can still override on an individual basis. This really...

Since you only have limited time, you could develop and backtest a weekly trading system over 20 or 30 years of data and trade that at very low leverage. The just look at it on the weekends when you have the time. Forex is good because you can trade any small amount of capital without a...

So IB is a model of clarity on how their stops operate, but I am not so sure about Scott Trade. From http://about.scottrade.com/blog/blogposts/Hedging-Your-Losses-Four-Helpful-Techniques.html it may appear that they only offer one form of stop order, and had not until recently disclosed...

It's the same TWS program, but in general will be at a slightly different version level than any particular copy that you download. This can work in your favor too, because they can quickly switch the version level for all users accessing it from the web if they need to, to address an...

If this form of stop order triggers on a quote then it should indeed be called a stop on quote order.

The Java exploits normally are miscreant anonymous java "applets" hidden on a web page. As long as you disable those one way or another you are fine. I disable them by disabling all plugins (including Flash, Java etc.) in Chrome. You can override when you want on an individual web page that...

If you click on the recommended link on the web site, behind the scenes it downloads and caches and runs the same Java program that is the standalone version. There is no difference except a different way of launching it. Running it via the link on the web site ensures that you always have the...

...but right now it relies on the forum moderator to remove off-topic posts. I was suggesting that in your new feature (assuming I understand the basic concept), when a thread starter specifies a list of people eligible to post on an "invitation only" thread (if I can call it that), the...

It does not solve the problem of useful threads dying off because they get overwhelmed by off-topic diversion to the extent that they are unusable for the original topic. Sometimes a number of posters just love the diversionary banter but that prevents those seriously interested in a...

Will one be able to invite everyone by start with, and later disinvite individuals who prove to be disruptive?

IB publishes all criteria that it uses, which I think is a better approach, although one could argue that it encourages lying. However IB's criteria are far higher then most.

Good points. I think a lot of the responsibility is our own - ask more and better questions etc. on the forums and try to contribute something too. I intend to do that in coming months .......