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This is tough to do without some help as Task Manager is terrible about providing details of the running processes. Download PRIO at http://www.prnwatch.com/products.html What's cool about it: it tracks every task right back to the starting program and directory location. This really makes it...

Low winning percentage trading requires good psych to avoid the pressure and the tendency to take early profits to book a winner. Ah, another law of finance holds: low risk = low return and vise-versa.

WRONG. It's IMPOSSIBLE to have a fast backfill with IB's historical data access due to PACING LIMITS. You get SIX requests per minute. Exceed that and you have violated the threshhold and must start again. So, sixty symbols will require 10 minutes AT A MINIMUM.....and could be much more...

IB has many, MANY, did I mention MANY problems with their API ! It's almost staggering. It actually can cause good programmers to break down and cry...it's that bad. There are just so many workarounds, and idiosyncracies...and BUGS ! Couple that with the pacing limits and some architectural...

On CNBC tonight with Kudlow & Company: Obama's plans likely to bankrupt America. Removing tax breaks for the rich will rip the unemployment rate to double digits. No capital formation. No business expansion. Health care costs to continue rising as hospitals and doctors continue to fight...

OK, I GIVE UP: What EXACTLY is "Odds Maker" ? How does it work ? What is the underlying premise ?

I'm not surprised....as I believe it is coded in C++....which is FAST, but very difficult to make FLEXIBLE and ADAPTABLE. Note: I called their sales department....and their AUTOMATED trading platform licenses for 6 figures !

OMIGOSH - I love this example....can you imagine outsourcing a complex trading platform ? (or even a SIMPLE one !)

They simply forgot to mention the other 95% of their users who went from $20,000 to $10,000 IN ONE WEEK.

Exactly....and so it's business-as-usual in Washington, DC with profligate spending, low productivity of gov't workers who are just collecting a pay check, etc. Yet in the private sector, it's horrid cost-cutting and now layoffs that will really shake the very foundation of capitalism IMHO...

When Bolling was on Fast Money, he was trading the financial index eminis as well as gold. I remember one day last fall when the market had swooned, but short covering had already started, he was shorting and getting clobbered. He called them his "soldiers" (his short positions) and they were...

That's one reason we're in this "mess". And let's take a quick review of the government employees' competence and productivity: Just look back at 9/11 and all of those security and intelligence analysts working for the government....and all of the FBI personnel involved. Great job guys. How...

OF COURSE, and my problem was I thought the market was OVERVALUED. Certainly it's hindsight now, but the bulls were still winning back then. The Russell 2000 was over 840 back at that time. Imagine how I would have done in THIS market now ! One other thing to mention in reviewing my trades...

Does anyone really understand these "fees" and how they are calculated ? I heard one prop firm owner indicate new staff traders would only be charged 25 CENTS per thousand as he indicated that was their "institutional" rate. Of course, independent traders at his firm would only get a 5 DOLLAR...

Unbelievably, I experienced EACH of the above when sim trading the ER2 contract this past summer and fall. I hadn't traded the eminis a while, so before I went live, I thought I'd get a read on my trading technique and performance. First off, I was going short most of the time....I'd wait for a...

Of course, none of that software is WORKING TOGETHER. Did you try changing CPU Affinity so that each one is using a different "core" or processor ? That may or may not work well depending on how the various programs are interacting. For best results, each software package needs to be totally...

Amazing how well Elliott Wave works when there are trending markets. Otherwise, it's just a-b-c-d-e sideways counts.

I tested it....and it does have a PERSISTENT affinity setting. The docs are probably just not up to date.

But WOW, Trading platforms sure could !!! Again, most must be rewritten. There is one vendor who has built a set of C++ tools that enable the re-write process to be fairly easy.

Outsourcing in the info technology field has just gone so far......but you know what the real outcome has been ? POOR QUALITY. Yep: 1) Tested Interactive Brokers API this past summer....riddled with bugs, omissions, poor documentation, etc. In the end, I COULD NOT USE IT ANY LONGER....it...