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does anyone have any insights on possible issues that might come up if i were to ever move offshore but still wish to run my automated system on a server in canada?

Why does it seem like I get more slippage on my futures trades than my spot trades?

Why dont you want to close the positions before the weekend? Wouldnt it result in the same profit?

if that were true. couldn't you just paper trade until you have a winner then 'add' to it by putting on real positions? maybe it should be add to winners when you have reason to, above the fact it has moved in your direction in the past. and add to your losers if you have reasons to, same as...

how do you know which direction goldman is going?

ahh yes. there obviously is no way to prove that. same as there would be no way for my previous non-trading related employers to prove i am using private IP from past contracts for my own benefit. i guess you just have to trust in the professionalism of the people you hire as is with everything...

is there some way to query IB to see if there are shares available to short? without trying to place an order.

everybody knows the real money is in white collar crime.

how is there ever slippage on limit orders? isint that the whole point? i could see if you were doing a lot of lots with a all-or-none order you might experience some slippage if it has to fill from multiple sources.

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how on earth did they detect him frontrunning? just saw multiple profitable trades before news releases on multiple securities from a single account? but how is that different from the person who guesses before market news and gets lucky often?

iv contracted to do r&d on proprietary software in the past. obviously ndas and contracts prevented me from releasing code or using IP myself like in harmless' example. my point was mainly if you dont protect yourself legally, you can be screwed over in any business transactions, not limited...

hiring a programmer to implement a trading strategy is no different from hiring a programmer to implement any proprietary intellectual property (for example a new graphics rendering application). harmless: you should have protected yourself like any other employer/business contracting a...

why would TWS not let you trade if the spread is negative?

does IB have manual reviews? are manual reviews always limited to options?

im currently short june/june thinking the view was a little pessimistic. plus no raise in rates. still waiting for a correction downwards. anyone agree or disagree?

sorry i cant help with your question. i was wondering how you determined you received a credit from island via nyse routing?

because its to their benefit that more people think its easy to make money on the markets. thats why they dont make their market estimates conservative. I am not sure but id imagine private sims at large firms are harder to make money on than live.

do you get credits for adding liquidity to anything other than some stock exchanges? futures? options?

is it near impossible to make a living starting at 50k without a secondary job? if the best money managers are unable to make 25% most of the time, what hope do we have?