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    What are the most professional automated trading platforms ?

    I'm curious in what ways something like Deltix (there are others, I'm just picking one at random) doesn't meet your needs?
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    High speed trading under fire

    Exactly. :)
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    High speed trading under fire

    It seems to me that would require "price improvement" from the exchange, possibly in the way of better rates for longer-lived orders. I really don't see the point in having the time scale be "1 second", though, IMO it should be much longer, on the order of minutes. Otherwise it's just a means...
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    HFT - If You Commit The Following Your Company Is Finished

    That would mean going back to humans on the floor, no electronic trading at all, not even a telegraph and ticker. You're either physically present under the buttonwood tree, or you don't participate. Somehow I suspect that's not really what you had in mind...
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    High speed trading under fire

    That's essentially equivalent to being internalized to the first exchange on the route.
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    HFT - If You Commit The Following Your Company Is Finished

    So it goes. Adapt or die. Those old prop firms were leeches, now they've been eaten by newer, more capable leeches. Don't see any players in this story worth shedding a tear over. Like the man once sang, "Same as it ever was..."
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    High speed trading under fire

    That's not correct. The book exposed on the main feed is only a 10 deep MBP - the actual MBO book can be (and often is) thousands deep.
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    Any seed money for Crude Oil trading?

    If you don't have belief in your system, why would you expect anyone else to?
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    Any seed money for Crude Oil trading?

    Then you should do just that, for a few months, at least. IMO.
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    Credit Suisse?

    That would explain all the Russians working there.
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    The Euro Crisis - Which country will be next?

    People will know you have it the moment you try to exchange it for something you need.
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    The Euro Crisis - Which country will be next?

    That means forcible repossession. Which, in SHTF scenarios, means being lined up against a wall and shot. Holding physical gold is useless for peons, the only people it can possibly help are those in the Power class.
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    Advice requested of this system

    Automate it and run it - at the end of every day, backtest against that day's data, and note the differences between theory and practice. That's my advice, anyway.
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    How to read OrderID numbers?

    If you have to ask if your orders are being internalized - they are being internalized. Just take it as your base assumption and go from there - that ALL your orders go through internal matching before they hit the smart router.
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    How to read OrderID numbers?

    Unless you know otherwise - for a fact, from your broker - you most likely are going through an internal matching engine.
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    Math wizards, is ATR superior to Beta?

    They both suck equally bad.
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    How to read OrderID numbers?

    If you are talking about the order ID that shows up from your broker in the "receipt" for your trade, you'll have to ask your broker. Most likely it means nothing at all, and is just a guaranteed-to-be-unique sequence number.
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    crony capitalism and the end of the american dream

    Crony capitalism and lack of free markets are what built America. I wouldn't sweat it, it's never been the problem.
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    Austerity problem or something else?

    That's not really correct. There are no dollars at all in the surplus fund, all it contains is promises of futuref dollars. At a certainly level the distinction is minor - but from a different level, it's the only thing that matters.
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    Why are there no lines outside of Greek and Spanish Banks?

    Nothing much. There'd be a recession, it would bottom out, life would go on. Obladi oblada...
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