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The co-located server is where your order logic resides. For example, this can be an algo, or an installation of charting software for chart trading. From there, your order would typically be routed to your broker. For futures, most brokers have their order servers in Chicago, so having your...

European Union recommends halting non-essential travel from the U.S. https://www.axios.com/eu-travel-restrictions-us-6f8f73f7-af1e-4614-a73e-46404ee0b085.html

Only CosmosDB was affected, and CosmosDB already had a terrible reputation internally in the Azure organization... Do you love MongoDB, but wish it was slower, more expensive, and even less reliable? Then CosmosDB may be the database for you!

Your wifi test results look good. Trading over wifi is mostly fine, except in the rare case when the connection drops and the router/modem need to be restarted. I've personally experienced it with NinjaTrader ATM, and it can be replicated. For example, you place a limit buy order with an...

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It. We can’t avoid the virus for the rest of our lives, but we can minimize its impact. By Sarah Zhang https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/ Good article, but doesn't mention the...

Very true, however presumably it would be easier to save for the down payment now than it would have been 10 years ago. Also first time home buyers with FHA loans can still receive low rates (PMI included) with only a 3.5% down payment. Additionally, FHA allows the 3.5% down payment to be a...

The average price of American homes, in real terms (inflation adjusted), is now the highest it's ever been — even higher than the peak of the housing bubble in 2006 before it crashed 60% and bottomed out in 2012...

It's true, however in the case of @Laissez Faire asking about trading over a possibly unstable Wifi connection, a VPS would be very helpful because if their Wifi lost connection even for a moment, they could connect using mobile data on a different device and continue with the same trade. If...

The hard way to get over it is by learning from the experience of being margin called or blowing up your account because a small loss grew into big loss.

We're down to the last 10% of server capacity in our collocated Chicago trading facility. If you've been considering a Chicago VPS for your trading, after this last node runs out of stock, new servers won't be available until new hardware arrives in 1-2 months. How a Chicago server can help...

Toyota is to slash worldwide vehicle production by 40% in September because of the global microchip shortage. The world's biggest carmaker had planned to make almost 900,000 cars next month, but has now reduced that to 540,000 vehicles. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794 Toyota was one...

For scalping, many of our trading server customers use forex.com as their broker and scalp through NinjaTrader. More info here: https://www.forex.com/en-us/trading-platforms/more-services/ninjatrader/

Through Fiscal Year 2020, the United States federal government has spent or obligated $6.4 trillion dollars on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. This figure includes: direct Congressional war appropriations; war-related increases to the Pentagon base budget...

For brokers, a popular low margin broker for CME bitcoin futures and bitcoin micro futures is NinjaTrader. Here their direct link: https://ninjatrader.com/Micro-Bitcoin-Futures Other brokers like Interactive Brokers also support CME bitcoin futures, but the margin requirement is substantially...

July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D...

For placing market buy and sells, you wouldn't get the benefits of optimizing fills and reducing slippage, because as you mentioned the same delay is there. With a server, it should only be about 1-2 ms slower than going order routing directly to your Chicago based broker. If you were using...

250 ping between Singapore and Chicago sounds about right. The average latency is ~230ms according to https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Singapore If you're running an automated strategy with market orders, or discretionary chart trading using market if touch orders and simulated stop losses (to...

While the millionaire described in the story had $8 million in assets, you will find almost no one "next door" with 10 to 100 million or a 1 billion. That level of wealth requires a return on investment that can't be achieved using the earn and save model. It usually requires...

"The Millionaire Next Door" In 1996, "The Millionaire Next Door" hit the bookstores. Its co-authors, academics Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, found that most of the millionaires in the research they conducted shared seven common traits. These traits can be summarized as follows: They...

New Chicago servers have just come online yesterday and half the capacity is already reserved!