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As the cost of goods increase, manufacturers routinely pass these costs on to consumers through higher prices. A less obvious strategy is to maintain price, but to reduce the size of the product. In many ways, this downsizing should mirror a straight price increase when it comes to consumer...

@Girija Most futures brokers have their order servers in Chicago, so you want your trading software to have as little latency as possible between placing an order and order execution. For example, running an automated bot scalping strategy with market buys/sells will result in better fills with...

The people who flee tend to be ultra-wealthy, and many of them are seeking to reduce their tax burden. New tax and estate measures proposed by the Biden administration could, if implemented, accelerate this trend. Only the U.S. and Eritrea tax people based on citizenship rather than residency...

Even if you think you’re well paid, now is the time to look around. “This is the most competitive market I can remember in my professional career, with many people comparing it to the dot-com market of the late ‘90s,” said Jim Bartolomea, vice president of global talent at tech titan...

That makes Amazon #3, after the federal government and Walmart: Entity- US Employees 1. US Government- 2.7M 2. Walmart- 1.6M 3. Amazon- 1.0M...

According to a report from Transparency International, "Dirty Money" is flooding the Canadian housing market. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/real-estate/video/billions-in-unknown-funds-flowing-into-canada-s-housing-market-transparency-international~1644554

All the more reason for traders in these states to switch to trading over our Chicago co-located servers. You'll be <1-2ms away from order servers, significantly reducing execution times, as well as the risks of multiple points of failure without having to have a major investment in hardware...

New Chicago servers filling up fast! Looks like they will be sold out again by the end of the week until new nodes come online

Many brokers do in fact monitor accounts for losses. As other posters have said, they won't stop you as long as margin is not involved. Here is an example letter Fidelity sends out when an account loses a substantial amount in a short period of time:

Microsoft tops $60 billion in annual earnings for the first time to cap record-breaking year https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-tops-60-billion-in-annual-earnings-for-the-first-time-to-cap-another-record-breaking-year-11627416653 Microsoft Corp. finished yet another record-breaking...

We have a bunch of customers using MotiveWave on Android, Android tablets, iPhone, iPads, etc. by running it through our trading servers. Our servers have lag free remote desktop, so it feels like a native app without any delays. It's also a nice benefit to be able to access your entire...

Used cars alone accounted for one-third of all price inflation in the US over the past year. https://thehustle.co/why-are-used-cars-so-expensive-right-now/

It is moves like this which show the tremendous impact of Tesla. The old automakers were never going to be the ones to push the switch to greener tech themselves. Even the companies that we may have thought were forward looking a decade ago like Toyota are now showing that they had no plans to...

Joan Macdonald faced growing health problems before she began lifting weights, shattering preconceptions about what’s possible in your eighth decade: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/23/a-new-start-after-60-i-was-sick-tired-and-had-lost-myself-until-i-took-up-bodybuilding-at-71...

All over North America, speculators are raising rents and pushing out tenants. Will our cities ever be the same? https://thewalrus.ca/how-empty-storefronts-are-killing-our-neighbourhoods/ Here are some great videos on NYC urban decay from Louis Rossmann:

If anyone needs a Windows based server for running .Net applications, take a look at our co-located Chicago servers. The hardware config is specifically built for lag free chart (RDP) trading and for running critical applications, such as trading bots, 24/7 without any outages (no internet...

Workers have been leaving jobs in restaurants, bars and hotels at the highest rate in decades. Each month so far this year, around 5% of this massive workforce have called it quits. In May alone, that was 706,000 people. Quits levels and rates by industry and region, seasonally adjusted...

The process of learning to trade is similar to developing other skills such as learning to play an instrument, working on a side project, or becoming more effective at work. https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/ PRACTICE... practice, practice...

c# really does makes NinjaTrader very flexible for programming. There are even alot of undocumented functions that support can help with so that you're not reinventing the wheel when it comes to risk/trade management.

In terms of automated trading, the most common setups we see on our colocated Chicago servers are NinjaTrader + IBKR, or MT4/5. Especially for US based traders, MT + OANDA is very popular with our VPS customers.