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So, I guess that means that those other traders are in a real pickle. :D

Barco?

vlad, it's one thing to ask individuals to provide their own personal data -- easy enough, merely requiring the will to do it -- and quite another thing to expect a number of unrelated individuals to coalesce to petition a broker. Suggestion: post a poll wherein each mutually exclusive...

Dead on. "Ultimately I still wanna try to figure out how to challenge this but I'm just a tax geek. I really wish I took securities law when I had the opportunity - now I have to figure all this out from scratch... " You go, girl!

Let's say you already have code which, in one shot, retrieves all intraday data available for the current day (for a single security). How would you quantify or characterize the coding change needed to instead retrieve that data for a time-span of 5 days or 80 days (again, in one...

Interesting. You said "resident", but are you a US citizen? Also, are you able to trade US securities in those accounts?

Interesting bit of trivia: while driving around Italy, I discovered that the speed limit depends on the vehicle -- i.e., not just on passenger cars vs. trucks, but on the type of passenger car (higher limits for bigger cars).

First, the point isn't communism; it's paternalism or totalitarianism, of any stripe. Secondly, the analogy doesn't hold: the primary purpose of traffic laws is to protect people from others, not from themselves. PDT rules are more analagous to laws against suicide. (And please, don't...

Like I said, sounds reasonable: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=159637#post159637

url, please?

If that was directed to me, the answer is, "Nothing, I'm still there." As I said, I'm not happy with my IB experience so far. So I only go there when I want to trade less than 10 (less than 8 for spreads).

chazz, mac aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggh! :mad: damn. well, thanks for pursuing it, chazz. how "20th-century". shouldn't be surprised, since apparently they can't even afford copy-editors (or vs. nor usage). :p I guess I'll have to either start scanning in this stack of back issues, or try...

hii, I now see how you might have thought I was slamming opts and pumping SSFs. Not what I meant. Earlier in this thread, agreed about SSFs. Large part of my trading is in opts (although I'm still not yet comfy about switching it over to IB). Just saying, either futs or opts, plenty of ways...

Here's your paradigm. I've been there often, and there's nary a sempervirens in sight. If you've found your crevice, who cares about the sequoias?

Hey, nice usage, t4a; kudos. :) "I do not know if portfolio insurance is still prevalent" IIRC, it's a "large" factor in SP500 options volume, from institutions.

Wow. 1.2 million volume on just one of the strike prices. t42, do you know of any more markets like that?

Quote from Tech Analysis: What's left to test? Our patience . . . . LOL Quote from hii a_ooiioo_a: SSF are not a safe alternative for traders who have been pushed out of the options market When was the options market safe? I must have been out of the country that week. :D

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=143925#post143925 : About four weeks ago, a broker who frequently posts here said, in so many words, "Testing has been going on for many months. All has gone well. What's left to test?"

Do you mean the web site or the terminal? "The initial imbalances come out at 3:40, and the revised imbalances come out at 3:50." Please list some publicly accessible places where they can be seen in realtime. TIA

There isn't one that will give you a practically reliable answer, due to the number of other variables. Trust me: I've been employed doing computing performance analysis and capacity planning for along time. However, you can get some idea by looking for benchmark results here: www.spec.org...