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If you are using IB: IB provides API and you can automate and build your automated or semi-automated system in Excel, .Net (using activeX)or C++. This is for intermediate to advanced programmers but beginners can use it too. It is not easy because some features are not well documented and...

Discussion on this tax completely misses important facts. Politicians wants to put restriction on free flow of capital and turn portion of it into budget for their spending. They want to double tax because income from capital and capital gains are already taxed. They forgot about risk involved...

Just do not forget to read the fine print. Most probably market making and intraday trading and also big dealer banks will be exempt. You still will pay. Nothing will change.

I am so happy for you that you will be able to make money in the markets once this tax is introduced. Let us know when you get rich trading

Tom Harkin is retiring either in Florida or Cuba http://www.cnbc.com/id/100410089

Bureaucrats will do the hard work for you. They will create such a maze of rules , loopholes and exemptions that it will create new ways to speculate and arbitrage. One cannot fight speculation. If speculators cannot do it on regulated markets this activity will move to black market and...

C# or VB code is using lots of C++ code behind the scenes when compiled during run time. This is mostly choice of front end vs back end in .Net. That is why there is not much performance difference in the end. I personally prototype in VB and I am very surprised with good performance of VB...

No problem. Free country.

There is one thread following FTT on ET. You may want to move your discussion there: Forums ›› Main ›› Wall St. News ›› 1/4% Tax on all stock trades pushed in NY Times today

C++ still rocks and with new VS2012 you have access to C++ AMP which lets you use GPU accelerators that nicely integrate with VS. I guess that C++ AMP will be available in C# environment few years later. Anyway any of the .Net IDE is best suited for fast development and project management...

Good for Cameron. This is what happens when Germans and French tried to impose total control over major EU partner with votes from Slovenia, Slovakia and Souvlaki. Full FTT implementation is doubtfull at this point as long as Cameron will win next election.

Crystal Ball. You guys focus too much on historical events like QMV this or QMV that. EU tax is in because bureaucrats have too fulfill pipe dream of some big Ego in EU commission. The real issue is the future: How it will be implemented and enforced and if the rest of the world will...

You have to understand US politics. Those are paid votes by people who have no free will because their livelihood depends on government salary or welfare. Second point is that the design of voting districts makes it easy to manipulate outcome in favor of big cities which are subsidized by...

They agreed to have phantom law on the books with non uniform implementation depending on local politics which assures that it will not work. Now the interesting part is if this tax will be enforced on foreign exchanges outside EU.

QMV is sure thing but there is interesting pattern emerging. France, Italy and Spain I believe are introducing their version with their own exemptions, loopholes and tax rates. Other will follow and GB will probably be spared any interference with their capital markets not to anger major EU...

This is more for ActiveX than DDE but both have very similar functionality. I just checked IB API guide and noted that you can request execution report and use specify filter with several different options including symbol in ActiveX. Account update does not have such flexibility. I do not...

Why this is bothering you? This has no effect for individual trader. And who do you think will pay this fee and who will be exempt?

Better yet if they apply small fee when you attempt to think. Did it occur to you that 25 000 volume stock and 9 trades a day plus high volume of placed and cancelled trades means somebody or maybe CBOE was testing their system in real time on some dormant security? So you have solution to...

Moving average is more than that. It is part of signal processing body of knowledge and depending on the form being used it is one of the band pass filters. Superficially it looks like simple high school concept. It is powerful tool but with questionable applicability to financial markets...

But the question was how money is created.