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    Is active trading a viable job for an individual?

    That was funny. The west .. where the girl who makes coffee thinks she's better than the dude who owns the coffee shop.
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    IB good customer service

    That quote should really be "The maximum you get is what you pay for". It's true you pay little you get little, but you can always pay a lot and still get crap for it.
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    Post Trade Issues

    The issue with automated is ... 10am long msft, 10:02am sell, 10:05 long msft, 10:10am sell, 10:12am long msft, 10:13am sell ... If the 10am long msft trade is broken, then the above becomes ... 10am broken trade, 10:02 SHORT mfst, 10:05 cover, 10:10am SHORT msft, 10:12am cover, 10:13am SHORT...
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    Post Trade Issues

    Thanks for posting your experience, MoreLeverage. I'm curious, on those bond trades, does it usually happen pretty fast ? I've heard that they can initiate a broken trade up to 30 minutes after the trade happened, and that it can take up to another 30 minutes for it to be resolved, has that...
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    Post Trade Issues

    No, I mean I'm doing automated trading and want to know what kind of issues could cause me to lose a trade which could put my entire string of trades in jeopardy and cost me money, how I can avoid those kinds of issues, etc ... and your post is not the least bit helpful. That's what I mean.
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    Fees and taxes

    It's actually a complicated topic that requires some research. Edit, and I don't mean that as some kind of snide comment .. I mean I've been trying for years to understand it all and still don't understand all the ins-and-outs.
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    Fed’s QE Unwind Accelerates Sharply

    Rates on Treasuries are sure going up. Call me Capt. Obvious. :D
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    Season of HATE

    An observation ... I think its important to remember that the fires will now be stoked as we head into election season, and that it is the season for political parties, politicians, etc, to start exaggerating, making wild claims, throwing bombs, etc, at each other as election day nears. This...
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    Thank you sponsors of ET.

    Just noticed the list of sponsors for the site, wanted to extend my thanks. Someone has to keep the lights on, thanks for doing that. :)
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    Order Flow Indicator to code under TradeStation

    I wish you luck building your indicator, I'm curious, will it display inside of TradeStation or on a console somewhere, or ?
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    Order Flow Indicator to code under TradeStation

    I also edited my post since you've posted this. :)
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    Should Intel CEO still have his job? 8 new Spectre variants found inside Intel chips.

    ??? The vulnerability is called Spectre, so variants of that vulnerable might be called .. Spectre variants. The OP didn't make a judgement about anything, they wrote one line literally reporting the news.
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    Order Flow Indicator to code under TradeStation

    I think the question though is whether your instruments need level 2 quotes in order for the indicator to be predictive, and if so can you use certain instruments w/ level 2 quotes as proxies for other instruments. That's what I'm trying to determine. Edit, oops, okay, I didn't see the rest of...
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    Trading time value

    Have you considered back testing the idea to see what it yields ? Back testing has a lot of faults because it is only looking at historical data ... and like they say, it's no guarantee of future results, but it's usually better than nothing.
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    Post Trade Issues

    Please stay out of the thread if you're not going to post something on point and helpful.
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    Dennis Gartman... GREAT Lesson In Trading

    Look, it's pointless to keep debating with you guys because you're so disingenuous when you debate. This is the third time, by a third different person that you've all tried to put words in my mouth to make a strawman ... I NEVER SAID WIN RATIOS WEREN'T PART OF THE EQUATION. I very clearly...
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    Post Trade Issues

    Interesting in hearing from experienced (years) active traders about problems they have encountered post-trade such as settlement issues, broken trades, clearing issues, really just any kinds of issues that have happened to you after the trade has been confirmed on the exchange. Have you ever...
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    Dennis Gartman... GREAT Lesson In Trading

    Nobody is against winning, it's the definition I don't agree with. The definition being tossed around is a win/loss ratio regardless of drawdown on short term trades for capital gains vs the $us (or local currency), even if that's not explicitly what is being argued, it is implicity. Everybody...
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    Best data api ?

    Hey thanks for that, good to know someone has done it. What you say about the text based with null delimiters is interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing the format. I think with just a few order types it should be fairly straight forward, depending on how they pass back their error codes.
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    Dennis Gartman... GREAT Lesson In Trading

    It's pointless to continue debating you @volpri, how about I just tell you that I think you're perfectly right, beautiful, and absolutely brilliant so we can both go on with our day happy. Best of luck to you, and enjoy whatever win rate you have. Cheers.
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