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    Stock alerts to trigger an alarm clock?

    Does anyone know if there is something out there like a "smart alarm clock" which you can configure to receive stock alerts and wake you up in the middle of the night? It would be handy if you needed to keep your "eye" on the market in a completely different time zone. e.g. Say you happen to be...
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    Thomson Reuters Eikon

    Apparently this new desktop software from Reuters is to rival Bloomberg's. Anyone had a go? Will it be available in one form or another for individual traders? A free cut-down version would be nice ... http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/financial/eikon
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    How to invest in Lloyd's insurance underwriting?

    Does anyone have any experience with investing at Lloyd's? I can't find any good info on how you actually get your foot in the door. As a general member of public, it seems that the main route into the insurance underwriting market is by buying into a Lloyds limited liability vehicle from one...
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    Think or swim..

    Interactive Brokers, cheap and cheerful: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=commission I appreciate they're not for everyone though ...
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    Think or swim..

    I'm in the UK and I opened a US$ account with no problems. They have great client software, but their pricing isn't competitive enough for me ...
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    Setting up an incubator fund in the UK?

    This book gives some pretty good insight on the barriers to expect with starting up a fund: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0471748528 The upshot is that setting up shop is simple but selling your product (ie attracting assets) is tough, even if you have plenty of "pedigree" in the finance...
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    iPhone Apps

    FuturesLive Thomson Reuters News Pro Tube Status Defender Chronicles
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    Setting up an incubator fund in the UK?

    I think a lot of traders here would like the idea of setting up a managed fund or a collective investment scheme, getting a load of investors on board, trade their capital, and take in a nice 20% performance fee. Let's assume that you have a trading system which shows good results, but you have...
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    Analyst in Investment Bank...

    A non-business-facing role in an IB's Technology division will not really get you any closer to the trading floor to be honest. But if it were a business facing App Dev role, then sure, that would definitely help ...
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    What career can I go when you are a consistent trader?

    http://www.trade2win.com/traderpedia/Trading_for_a_Firm
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    Back Testing

    You can do free backtesting here: http://www.prorealtime.com It works great. You have to pay for the intra-day stuff though.
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    Training Courses

    I think there are definitely some very good training courses around, but watch out for the charlatans - Few things are more profitable than preying on other people's greed. Of the legitimate course offerings out there, it seems to me that they broadly fall onto one side of a spectrum: On the...
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    how to use excel for trading needs/analysis/record keeping

    I use Excel with Interactive Broker's TWS client to monitor all my open positions. With options, knowing where you stand with all your greeks is pretty important, and a spreadsheet is the easiest way to look at it I find. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/ExcelAPIQuickReference.pdf
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    Think or swim..

    ToS have an absolutely fantastic options trading platform. But I found their commissions a little high so I ended up moving to Interactive Brokers.
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    Baltic Dry Index

    As it happens there was an article in MoneyWeek last week which mentioned, in passing, that there is no way to trade this index.
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