if you get sued you will need to pay a lawyer and will lose the money you're paid while you sit out. it's usually not worth trying to get out of a non-compete.
all these containers are a pain to deal with. you wont need a sys admin anymore but you need someone that can configure them so they work ... which they never do
same exact way you would do it with one portfolio. However, you would want to create an "internalizer" so if portfoio A wants to buy XYZ and portfolio B wants to sell XYZ they just swap
as someone else already alluded to, you would need the entire history of all data sets. A strategy could be looking at a multiple of factors when generating a trade
trading at BP or shell or any energy giant is not trading like you may think. It's a cross between sales and trading where it's 90% sales. Also, the floor of these firms are unlike those of prop firms/MMs
what part of the trade are you measuring? If you look at executions of the most traded instruments you will see that sometimes there will be many seconds with nothing executed