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Lots of people sell junk they used for a while or bought and didn't like on ebay without registering as a business... cause it's not a business. When people have a job (and some have more than one) they receive regular payments too. There is nothing suspicious about that. Regarding...

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I thought "None" was the same as "0%"

Suppose 1. Strategy A is short, it has a buy order in the market to cover at 100 (order O1) 2. Strategy B wants to go long long, it places sell order to close at 100 (order O2) The key here is teh 2 orders are not placed simultaneously. The strategies generate them in some order. In teh...

This all depends on what you need. For example, if you look at hourly charts only hold positions for hours to days, how fast the data arrives probably matters much less compared to someone watching time and sales. There is no point in paying more unless you can tell the difference.

In a single strategy this situation shouldn't happen if you wait for confirmed cancellation of a buy order before placing a sell order at the same price. If you have a few independent strategies trading concurrently, perhaps, it's a good idea to add internal order matching logic so that if...

As I mentioned, minimum overnight margin is regulated by the exchange. However, intraday margin is entirely up to the broker (and clearing house). As an example, let's compare Interactive Brokers' initial intraday futures margins to those from another large broker, MB Trading: Future IB...

I think we do. That's the core of understanding what those figures actually mean... or if they mean anything at all.

That's why people look at the absolute number of employed people too...

Not everyone finds the way the government figures are calculated most accurate representation of unemployment. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

Well, a broker (the agent that executes trades) and the clearing firm (which does paperwork regarding stettlement and holds deposit for overnight leverage) don't have to be the same company. In fact, a number of clients use IB as a broker (because of access to wide range of markets) but clear...

I am short EUR/USD

Perhaps, peopel who are swing-trading with a small account and are desperate for high intraday leverage.

An edge in trading is just a signal or a technique that creates a trading strategy with positive expectancy. So, HFT is not an edge though there are edges in HFT that cannot be used by people with slower market connectivity. Similarly, zero-rate financing is not and edge... but lots of...

People who are serious about HFT have direct connection to the exchange(s) that bypasses the broker altogether.

Having occasional lapses of discipline. Doing things I know I shouldn't.

Thanks for sharing the story! How did propsective clients take it that there are gonna be "bad months and bad years"? Did anyone walk away at early signs of volatility?

If you are referring to "tablet PCs", these have been around for quite a few years. Effectively, Tablet PC is a laptop with a rotation touchscreen. They didn't get much popularity due to being slightly heavier and bulkier (rubust rotating screen) and more expensive than a a laptop of comparable...

You have earned my respect for being open about embarrassing moments of the trading career. This sounds very much like online Poker. However, I dare say very few people aspire to make living from playing poker online.

Similarly, you can go to a Web-site of any major RAM manufacturer (say Crucial or Corsair), choose your computer model and you will be offered a choice of compatible RAM modules.