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The idea is stocks can be traded outside exchange. (There are certain conditions regarding giving a fair price to "retail" customers but a duped customer needs real determination to persue a "fairness" claim if they are taken advantage of.) In fact, most of large transactions.... where the...

I believe futures are more strictly regulated (by the exchanges that want to keep their commission, not the government). So, you cannot sell a future to your friend (or a person your broker chose with high amount of subjectivity) and register such a sale with the exchange. You have to perform...

Yes, you could. Connect the laptop via USB to your work computer and set up the USB connection as a network. Of course, the laptop will still be clearly visible :)

I think it's different to what most posters suggest... but then the article is 2-3 years behind the curve. A few years back a proper prop firm (that pays salary, takes all downside risk but offers lower share of the profits) had a really good deal in India and China. The firm would hire as...

Hint... Software that lets a user set up a virtual machine gives the user full control. Inside a virtual machine the user can set up any software they may want.

Clause 1 about "pre-execution communication" is pretty common. Whith stocks it's common that there is more than one execution venue. So, the broker may offer to check every exchange where the stock is trading for the better price before actually sending a client's order. Clause 2 is way more...

Get a trial with GoToMyPC - the full subscrition si 12 dollars per month + taxes or something but if your trading makes meney, this is not game-breaking Check if you can get approval for virtual machine softaware from VM-Ware or Microsoft. Virtual Machines are extremly useful for checking out...

"IB Gateway" (which installs with any recent TWS upgrade) is exactly what you want. It provides all the TWS API execept fr newsfeed (for which most TWS users don't subscribe anyway) and has none of the TWS flab - only pure API. If you are unhappy about "bloated" TWS, maybe you should ask...

Do you have access to your old computer? Can you "ping" google or yahoo on it now?

If they are not a financial company they really don't have a justification for banning you from trading anything but the companies own shares and shares of partially owned susidiaries and perhaps majors suppliers. If you were not asked to sign any form that bans you from trading than you are...

When you use "ping google.com" there are 2 things happening. First, you resolve domain name such as "google.com" to an IP address. Then you ping the IP address. If you can't "ping" common web-sites directly, most likely you are beyond a proxy server.

A few years back when I used LogMeIn it required intsalltion of a custom Web-browser addon. If you don't have admin priviledges on the new computer, the installation may fail with very confusing error messages. If this is the problem, as Jokepie suggested, GoToMyPC my be a solution. GoToMyPC...

Celebrity autographs go for 2 - 3 hundred or less. I wonder how the OP arrived at the 25-hundred figure. No bids on ebay so far. Sounds like it hasn't sold. Now it's offered for the quarter of the sum. If it doesn't sell this time, we may arrive at the price reasonable people can start...

Pos isn't a real word, is it? If POS is an acronym, what word is P supposed to stand behind?

Does TS support tick filters? Maybe you just need to add one. With a tick filter ticks would remain in the database but would no longer appear on charts...

It is usually safe to assume buy orders are executed at the next aks price and sell orders are executed at the next bid. Given we haven't seen the spreadsheet, suppose for the sake of example you backtest on 45-minute bars. If the system enters and exists a position during the same bar, you...

A few of beginning and more experienced traders get caught into the fallacy they can predict market most of the time. The truth is lots of very successful traders can predict the market only occasionally, in special circumstances, when they have an edge. Take time to skim fast through the...

Out of the top of the head you might: 1) Forget about bid/offer spread. If your buy-limit order is at the current bid price, there is no guarantee the order will get executed even of there is substantial trading valume at the bid. 2) Use long bars so that buy and sell orders are executed...

I thought the whole purpose of the incubator fund was to provide a bullet-proof legal structure where such incidents would be excluded...