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    Java or C++ for HFT?

    The big boys I believe are in FGPA chips. Screw software and just build it into the chip. Pretty tough side of the market to compete with.
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    ThinkOrSwim Realtime for Canadians

    The problem as a Canadian is your broker has to be setup in Canada and follow Canadian regulations. To access TOS you can go through TD Direct Investing, but at 9.99 u.s a trade it’s robbery.
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    Canada Best Order fill Execution Broker

    Problem with lack of brokers in Canada is the regulators require you to have a shop setup in Canada. IBKR Canada is what you’d want for trading. If you were passive investing or doing longer term trades I could maybe make an argument for Questrade. Futures I believe have a few U.S brokers...
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    How would you code this system? Let's compare platforms.

    Amibroker look a little like that. SetOption("ActivateStopsImmediately",True); SetTradeDelays(0,0,0,0); condition1 = 1;// Name() == "TQQQ"; condition2 = Open < Ref(Close,-2) * 1.98; condition3 = Ref(Close,-1) < Ref(MA(Close,5),-1); snp500 = Foreign("SPY","Close"); condition4 = Ref(snp500,-1) <...
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    Canadian Newbie

    Thinkorswim is available through TD Direct investing. But it’s only available on margin accounts and only for U.S stocks and believe 10k USD minimum(could be wrong). The 9.99 USD commission is just ridiculous thiugh(U.S users through TD Ameriprise or Schwab or whoever it is now pay way less than...
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    Dell cancels orders to 5 states... CA, CO, HI, OR, WA

    I don’t even understand. Not a computer genius but aren’t you only going to be eating up huge wattage unless you actually need it? Last time I checked my CPU and GPU only ramp up unless I ask it too by pushing it with tasks. I can think of 100 good ways to get some demand off the grid and...
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    Is SC real-time data actually delayed?

    Pretty sure most data I’ve used is marked beginning of bar. With stocks. I know I always cursed because I never found a good way to take minute data and make daily OHLC bars out of. Always needed to get daily data too since the close is at 4:00 and last candle ends at 3:59:59 which is usually...
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    Where and how do you acquire historical prices

    I used IQFeed and AMibroker for awhile. Didn’t need the real-time/intraday so ditched it as it was overkill. Amibroker handled all the getting the data but theirs a popular product for IQFeed called QCollector. Believe it’ll get you around the 500 limit that IQFeed has for symbol subscription...
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    indicator that shows if most stocks are going up or down

    https://www.fidelity.com/webcontent/ap010098-etf-content/19.11.0/help/research/learn_er_glossary_1.shtml That’s a common way. A/D line. Look up market breadth indicators. Perhaps your brokerage supports a few other indices that track stuff like A/D across a certain index or stuff like the...
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    Is there an indicator that “normalizes” pullback signals against varying trend strengths?

    Just two quick examples. Most of it can be seen without any indicators but I find flipping through hundreds of stocks, it just makes it pop out quicker so I get through it quicker. You'll notice most price will stay within the bands. Not saying go and short a keltner high touch, but I'm not...
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    Is there an indicator that “normalizes” pullback signals against varying trend strengths?

    I use keltner bands on a 20 day EMA 2 ATR for bands. Helps to measure pullback depth, over extension, exhaustion , etc. Also picked up 3/10/16 MACD from Adam Grimes. It’s on a SMA to smooth out a bit. Basically looking for a divergence on the fast line between swings to help notice trends...
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    TWS - Problem with VWAP

    Well seems normal to me. It’s based off the close of candle so a 5 min candle holds 5 1 minute volume bars. Going to throw the averages off. Only way they’d be the same is if you had a 1 min vwap overlay on a 5 minute chart.
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    Does IB close accounts associated with low tax jurisdictions?

    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/ib-terminate-our-relationship-with-you.146225/page-10 That thread he meant perhaps? It’s had some activity recently starting at page 9.
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    Would you say I drew this trend line the correct way?

    I don’t see any trend there myself to draw lines on, that’s just a ranging marker to my eye. In my daily routine I’d just skip over that chart and on to the next one instead of forcing something.
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    Need Guidance Getting Started with Small Account

    Just put the 25k in. Set an amount where your done. Feel free to drop below 1% risk even. That’s a good rule for trading but learning to trade drop it as low as you can before fees are just gobbling you up while you learn.
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    California bans sales of gas powered vehicles by 2035

    That I didn’t know. Only did one apartment complex where co-worker installed, never paid attention to it. But if their all different then that’s got to change real fast. Somewhere along the line we went from standardizing things to proprietary equipment. Like a 15 amp 120v receptacle is...
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    California bans sales of gas powered vehicles by 2035

    No skin in the game but hate when government mandates stuff like that. As an electrician I’ve never dabbled with solar myself, but the maintenance of this stuff sounds horrible. Lots of electronic components = pain in the ass. Pretty sure I read an article or mention somewhere of California...
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    California bans sales of gas powered vehicles by 2035

    Didn’t they just have some blackouts?
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    Safely ITM options > brief underlying spike at 4:00pm = now OTM. What happened? Seems fishy.

    The weird thing is that TSX doesn’t really have an after hours session. Their is but trades can only happen at the closing price. Theirs no open auction. Or so I thought....
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