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I was considering flowbased programming such as NoFlo to try to connect the pieces of an ATS. I realize this language is not very mature but there is a Kickstarter proposal that may flesh it out. What appealed to me was open source asyncronized multithreading and no code generation (the...

This might be a good place for the OP to look: http://www.wilmott.com/categories.cfm?catid=16

Digicomp 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I

It may be a limit on ACH transfers. You could see if a wire transfer might work.

This site has some inexpensive excel macros that do the job. You have to handle wash sales manually. http://www.investotek.com/

Edit-- I went back to my actual numbers (which I had previously just estimated). Here they are: Bought 1000 shares KFT @ 26.062, sold 10 Sep09 SSF @ 25.695. Based on 20% margin for the SSF (I think thats right), and two dividend payments of .29 each, I calculate a 2.7% annualized yield...

As a clarification, in my previous post stating a 4% return on the EFP, that was annualized. The actual yield for a three month period is about 1%. And yes the return has dividend risk, i.e. the trade actually goes negative but is offset by two dividend payments, the first of which was...

Since it hasn't been mentioned in this thread, one can do a stock/SSF pair trade to capture a premium. Lot's of information at OneChicago and IB about this. I'm doing this in my IRA with about half my cash for about 4% "risk free" gain.

You might also want to look at MLP's, Royalty Trusts, REITS, and preferred stocks for higher yields (with corresponding risk of course).

Both FAZ and FAS have single stock futures (Interactive Brokers), but the spreads can be wide.

This article has a possible explaination: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16752803/The-Great-American-Bubble-Machine

Bloomberg has Krugman's "end of recession prediction" as the reason for the pop.

This site, http://www.investotek.com, has a set of Excel macros that can consolidate day trades, match buy and sell (no wash sell calculations though), and export file to txf. Import this to Turbotax.

Here is how I used tradepair this year with IB data: 1. Use tradepair ver 0.3 beta. 2. From IB website, open each month as HTML 3. Highlight first date, scroll to bottom right corner of data, hold SHIFT and click LEFT mouse button to highlight range. 4. Copy data to new Excel...

I have four AMD laptops (one Sony and three HP). The Sony is my personal computer and the HP's are used in a lab running peptide synthesizer's 24/7. No problem with any of them. I have to laugh when I read posts that say P4's are more stable than AMD. I guess the money Intel spends on...

Here's a link - http://www.freetrade.com/ The commisions are almost too good to be true. One has to wonder about the executions. It appears to be Ameritrade based.

The only advantage of the browser version is that the settings will be the same at home or at the office. If a firewall is a problem then use loophole ( http://www.loopholesoftware.com ).

This is what I have: "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0_01\bin\javaw.exe" -jar C:\Apps\jts\jts.jar C:\Apps\jts By the way, I'm very satisfied with IB but they are not for everyone.

If you are running the standalone version of TWS, right click on your desktop shortcut and select "properties". The "target" line" has to be changed to point to the new java.

The following code should work for the excel api but it doesn't update for me yet: Sub Realtime_Calculate() ' ' Realtime Macro ' Macro recorded 8/30/2002 ' ' Keyboard Shortcut: ' Dim wsDDE As Worksheet Dim wsES As Worksheet Set wsDDE = Worksheets("Tickers")...