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Do you do anything for the public or just for your own interest? GS's customers must like them or they would not be in business. Employing people and paying taxes is not good for the public?

What is the point of looking for such? Any number of traders here can create "a fully disclosed mechanical profitable day trading system" and show that it works in backtests and have "independent verification" only to have said system do nothing but lose money in the future. You didn't...

And what are you going to do with your inflation investments if the incompetent clowns currently in charge fail to reinflate the bubble and we have deflation?

SEC fee is only for stocks. Futures traders pay $0.01 per side to the NFA.

For the flat fee per trade discounters the payments for order flow dwarf the SEC fee.

For USA, yes. For Europe, no, as most markets are closed for Easter Monday.

How does the broker know what percentage of your total trades go through that broker? How is the broker going to figure out your irrational strategy from your trades? How does the broker know if you are really skilled or just own a dart throwing monkey?

Ah, but it is a change in trend. First time ES margin has been lowered in a while.

CMEGroup has lowered overnight margin on the ES from $6188 to $5625.

If it is from a major vendor it is an OEM SLP key that does you no good. Does the notebook have a recovery partition? If yes, have you backed up the recovery partition to CDs/DVDs?

2 open source Java trading platforms are available for IB using the IB API. JSystemTrader http://code.google.com/p/jsystemtrader/ JBookTrader http://code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/ You can create any custom trading stategies you want to by adding to the existing code.

There are gaps in the major indices from the autumn of 1982 that have never been filled.

What frequency do you consider high frequency? How many round turns do you expect to do a day? What will be the percentages of winners, losers and scratches? High frequency traders get their profits eaten up by commissions unless they own or lease an exchange membership.

If you want to do scalping or market making with JBookTrader you will need to modify the software to handle limit orders. As currently implemented JBookTrader only does market orders.

Can't be done. Read the SEC regulations regardinging ownership and filing requirements - Rule 13d. "i.A person shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of a security, subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this rule, if that person has the right to acquire beneficial ownership of...

Unless you are doing large size in ES you can buy on the offer and sell on the bid with zero slippage the majority of the time during RTH. Using 1 tick of slippage during RTH is a good assumption for backtesting an ES trading system.

He flips the magic 3pt/5pt coin. I am still waiting to see the charts with his losing trades as he claims 80-90% winners.

Peolple who buy 100 and 400 oz bars can afford to buy steel toe shoes. :D

Belongs in Politics. To summarize the video: Gordon Brown is a bloody twit.

Big brouhaha about nothing. The NYSE mini gold contract is a joke that is barely traded. Open interest across all contract months of YG isn't even 5000 contracts. The Seeking Alpha article is so full of nonsense that it smells of a PR stunt by NYSE Liffe U.S. to stir up some interest in their...