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This seems to be a recurring theme in such ventures. Finding trading systems with an edge is hard enough, but finding profitable systems that scale up is nearly impossible. I have a couple of systems that work for a sub-million account but if I pushed it above that I'd start being a...

But what about some of these European countries like Sweden that are taking the first steps to eliminate cash?

Actually there are 3 methods IB uses for 2-factor authentication: the printed card with the random numbers, the pocket calculator and the smartphone app. I switched from the pocket calculator to the smartphone app earlier this year and you don't have to type anything into TWS when you log in...

Sortino is considered a better measure for options trading.

I kinda wondered that myself. I use the 2-factor authentication but it's unclear how that works with IBController.

Do you use the IB API at all? To use the API requires a middleware program, either TWS or IB Gateway, to be running. Both programs require a display to run. IBController takes care of part of this, but the Docker solution allows you to create a container that can be easily run and recreated...

Interesting. I had heard of Docker but mostly use VM products like VirtualBox. I welcome shiny, new things to distract me. :D

You have to pay for docker though, don't you?

"Hosed" is nearly meaningless. I'm running 960.2 and all my quotes look just fine.

Well nothing happened. All my positions are happily sitting there in profit.

Interesting. I wonder if I will have to liquidate any SPX option positions.

I don't recall having to provide actual proof of income or net worth. I just filled in a couple of fields in an online form.

You do realize there's no two party "system". The existence of 2 major parties is not codified in our Constitution or in legislation. It's simply a side-effect of the "winner takes all" voting system that prevails in the US. Theoretically someone with 33% of the vote among 4 candidates could...

AKA "Mister Aleppo"

I used briefing.com (paid subscription) back when I used to trade stocks and was very satisfied with it. I too was particularly interested in guidance.

Until TOS decides to shut down the free riders, that is. One day you may log in and discover that the data is turned off and all the nice features are disabled.

Well for starters instead of calling on the rest of the world to stop the crooks maybe they could just clamp down on them right in their own back yard.

Another of life's ironies is it's the country of origin (Israel) of these sketchy options that's calling for a world-wide ban of them.

Hating your job is the wrong reason to get into trading. The reason to get into trading is that you love the markets and you love trading. You need to be running *to* something not running away from something. Sorry to sound like some life coach but it's true. I was an engineering major in...

It's not a statistically significant sample, but 2 major crypto applications I know of use or used OpenCL: Bitcoin mining - I mined the bulk of my BTC using GPU-based OpenCL mining software. There were CUDA miners but hardly anyone used them. BitMessage - Anonymous, encrypted, blockchain-based...