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    Shld 25d R/r

    Hi Mark, 1. My point was not about whether I need it or not but about fairness of having charged short positions and not paying interest on long positions. 2. Regarding your suggestion: wouldn't be broker charging interest on the short stock so you end up having no profit at all? By the...
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    Shld 25d R/r

    My question is if IB charges for borrowing stocks why then it pays nothing to those who hold long positions?
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    Which laptops for trading?

    Does anyone have any experience with HP laptops? Please share.
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    Which laptops for trading?

    Yes, it's like 5-6 years old. A65-S126 model. Whom did you call?
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    Which laptops for trading?

    My toshiba shuts down by itself because of overheating.
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    Know Why I (and some others) Have Never Been More Bearish? - NYT Obama Interview

    Very good, Prime.
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    Cramer Pumping SEC Petition Re Uptick Rule

    There is a reason behind his vigorous efforts to reinstate the uptick rule since his show will be a direct beneficiary from this. His slogan "There is always a bull market somewhere" miserably failed in 2008. I have a feeling that he stopped using it lately. Now he wants to influence the reality...
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    TWS Problems

    4 instances. Wow, incredible! Are they all blanks?
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    New NFA rules... WTF

    Make it no "Soup Nazi" for you.
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    any IB java api experts? code question

    Because the processing of each tick is much slower than the speed at what the ticks are sent. The system simply is not capable to chase after each tick it receives.
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    any IB java api experts? code question

    Tradelink, Still the code suggests that processing of each tick is fast enough not to create the performance bottleneck.
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    any IB java api experts? code question

    If the processing of each tick is slow then logically the data stream that you receive is too fast for your blackbox and therefore you have to skip some of the ticks. I don't see how you can get around it by processing each and every tick from TWS. You need some sort of synchronization...
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    any IB java api experts? code question

    I have confused it with the realtimeBars method. My bad.
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    any IB java api experts? code question

    As far as I know the minimum interval between tickPrice() calls is 5 sec. So even in the fast moving market there is a lag of 5 sec to finish your processing.
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    The Uptick Rule - Your Thoughts

    The dream of the risk-free investment come true. Ever rising market. Ban the selling of stocks all together. This people are geniuses.
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    Naked Options Yields Calculator

    The one that is mispriced.
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    Obama says financial sector to shrink

    NYC is finished. I see longer lines for government handouts.
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    http://www.prosper.com/

    The down side is that it's restricted only to California lenders.
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    Pair Trading Strategy Journal

    My biggest problem with the pair trading is to decide when to close the position and what to do when the pair goes against me.
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    Calculate my hedge against volatility

    There are variance swaps futures ( VT ) traded on CFE.
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