Recent content by alexis_michel

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    Coding your own trading platform...Adding a database.

    I would very much like to suggest keeping well away from pretty much every single database vendor other than microsoft itself. C# is a microsoft technology (language, whatever), and will work ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE better with another microsoft technology than with everything else (a fact of life...
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    API - InterActive Brokers - (Using Silverlight)

    A server can easily (if done properly) accommodate hundreds of clients in terms of connection. In terms of backfill, you should probably look at caching the data, ie whatever comes from IB should only be requested once, and kept in memory, so that if another client asks for the same data it will...
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    API - InterActive Brokers - (Using Silverlight)

    Pardon me if I haven't really understood your problem, but basically you want a silverlight app to be sending orders to IB ? not sure this is the right way to go here. A better approach would be to use silverlight as it is supposed to, ie, a lightweight Web compatible UI, and have a back end...
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    So you want to be a "trader"

    Truly one of the best piece of advice I have seen ...
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    Where is a decent low tax place to trade European equity Index futures?

    Could you explain a little more about holland ?
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    50% tax .... why retire in 20 yrs when you can retire in 10 without it!!!

    Italy, with its tax on trading at 12% fixed. Broadband is a little behind that of UK and France, but you can get something fairly decent if you are in a city. And well, it is about as far away as possible from a "country in which it rains most of the time" ...
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    Emigration??

    a nice, not so well known alternative to all three would be Italy (with its 12% fixed tax on trading profits) and switzerland (international by nature, and probably plenty of arcades)
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    Robert Hoffman System

    He is the real deal. In some of his webinars, he trades live, and boy do you wish he would trade your account ! He is indeed an educator, and a very good one at that. All of his YouTube videos are already quite a huge free knowledge base and well worth spending the time watching them. I...
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    Protect your EA (Trial Period)

    Easy, you disassemble the code (with ready made available tools such as W32DASM) and look for references to the string : "The trial version has been expired!", then you are in the code, you replace the conditional jump by a normal jump, it takes one byte, and then you are off using the software...
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    Protect your EA (Trial Period)

    Dude, this would take a computer savvy guy no more than 10 minutes to crack such a protection.
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    Trading in Eastern Europe

    I would also like to hear about your findings. From a pure tax perspective, I think Bratislava (Slovakia) is pretty well rated (see Magazin: Internationaler Steuervergleich | Institut für Wertewirtschaft unfortunately in German), but I don't know about other things. Alexis
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    Any Offices in Switzerland?

    I would be interested too.
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    mastere finance help me please

    Do they have english courses on this "mastere finance" ?
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    FTSE Trading 600+ points per months (63 trades - 63 wins)

    I share the general scepticism, but out of sheer curiosity I would definitely like to read about that system.
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    Im an Englishman Get Me Out Of Here

    Nope, I was talking language, but well, I suppose this could apply to women also .. ;-)
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