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Some people were mentioning FL vs. CA a while back. They don't have a lot in common, I'll agree with that, but while reading the discussion on whether a $400k house in CA is doable I just had to laugh a bit. You can get 3 bedroom houses (needing some cosmetic fixer upper stuff, granted) for...

A ridiculous statement. It all depends on how the tax is being used. The tax money used to build the US interstate highway system, for instance, was not a net drain on our economy over the long term. Our tax money used to rebuild Iraq obviously was (looking only at our economy, not theirs.)...

Glad to help, though I'm still not sure which part you're talking about. Synthetic positions as a means to adjust ('partially close out') an already existing two-sided position, or currency baskets to better capture one-sided sentiments like "USD will go up" ? If you're using a basket...

Synthetic positions aren't any more stable. Payoffs are always exactly the same (if ever they aren't, arbitrage will instantly eliminate the inefficiency), other than the higher commissions. It's a bit hard to visualize in the case of Forex, but it should be clear if you imagined all of the...

Other than lack of *nix support (I'll deal), TradeLink looks fanastic. Thanks, guys. Quick question though, how does one automatically download IB historical data? Realtime recording was a snap via Record, but Tik Converter doesn't support IB. Or does Gauntlet do this? One year of 1 sec bars...

(Sorry for the cross post, realized this is the proper forum.) I'd like to take my data feed (preferably both historical and real time) and dump it into an SQL database as quickly and painlessly as possible. If I could get something that automatically wrote to CSV or even some proprietary...

I'm tired of wrestling in vain with Interactive Brokers' API. My analytical engine is nearly complete but I have no recent fine-grained data to test it on. Who offers historical and/or real-time data with an API (or readymade solution, dare I hope) granting easy insertion into an SQL...

The real explanation is more fundamental. It has nothing to do with psychology. There is a fundamental asymmetry between long and short positions. Because of limited liability and all that corporate personhood junk, there is a terminal point on the short side of a stock: zero. Once a stock...

This echo-chamber of retardedness is too irresistible for me to quit without giving you a few hints. Like giving a troop of gorillas a rubik's cube. What is currency? What are its desirable attributes and undesirable attributes? Why did single-commodity based systems, from cocoa beans to sea...

Yeah, I monologued, because the only non-irrelevant argument I've seen so far is 'look at history', which is an argument so powerful it could be applied equally to buggy whips, chalkboards, and asbestos insulation. It's fantastic to watch the flamebait replies come rolling in, both from...

Hilarious. We have two people who actually address and debate the real issue, then a dozen more who blindly spout off with the same ole irrelevant pro-gold, anti-fiat rant. This has nothing to do with fiat vs. non-fiat. The fact that only a couple of you have grasped this so far only confirms...

Not since '82. But as long as people accept fiat currency, is that relevant? You keep your money fully invested in copper or some other commodity X, and when you want to buy something you cash out into dollars or euros or whatever. Back in the days before the internet, bullion coins (in only...

This is turning out to be an interesting experiment. How many replies can I get before I get one from someone who actually read my post and has even the faintest idea about what I'm talking about?

Cliff notes for those of you who've gone off your Ritalin: The issue at hand is not gold vs. fiat paper. Gold is not behaving like other real, non-fiat commodities. For example, look at copper. Gold seems to be in its own private bizarro universe where inflation risk => increase and...

Seen some offhand comments to this effect, and I can't quite fathom what kind of rational argument could possibly back up such a theory. Gold was on very steady multi-decade decline before it started gaining again. The turnaround was due to fear, post-9/11. And now in the past few years...

This. Not saying the carnage will continue tomorrow, but that ridiculous surge after that ridiculously tame announcement (why would anyone think think they were going to start jacking up rates, even in the medium term?) isn't a indicator of anything except that some very rich people are...

Um. Not saying we've seen significant inflation (yet), but how in the hell do you figure that 17% over one year is "not much" ?

Been a while since I researched this, though a guy in this thread provides tentative (possibly outdated) confirmation: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214042&highlight=llc . What I can say for sure is that I was approved for an IB futures account (with full margin)...

Any particular reason why one couldn't form an LLC to cap the risk at -100% loss? From what I've read, sounds like at least Interactive Brokers will allow LLC futures accounts without a liability cosigner.

FAST 1.0 came out years ago, but I can't find anyone who offers it for data feed or execution. (Well, saw somewhere a hint that Genesis might, but I am not thrilled about the idea of dealing with any place that doesn't have up-front prices and seems primarily focused on co-location.) I messed...