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Hi Paul Thanks, so - I've also now managed to try it on a friend's iphone so my initial list is as follows: IOS 3 - yes Windows 6.5 - yes ... and somewhat subjectively: 3.5" screen, 320x480 - ok for one small chart 2.8" screen, (320x240?) - too small Anyone tried it...

Hi, thanks, not quite what I had in mind but very interesting all the same! - does anyone else have any experience of trying PRT from an iphone/blackberry/HTC etc etc?

Hi Q1. If any of you have used the above package please could you let me know what combination of smart-phone and operating system you use? Q2. Any idea what data rates (e.g. MB per day) you have for a given list list of securities and chart timeframe? I have tried asking ProRealTime...

hi JonsJon I believe, but I don't know because I haven't tried it, that as they have a UK regulated arm just to be able to offer trading in UK shares, that this means they will have to apply the same duties. I've read somewhere that the UK gov makes a fair bit of tax revenue out of...

Hi ...an appealing lifestyle! Well done for persevering that far. I'm guessing you were trading around a day job before that. May I also ask, how long did it take you to become professional? I'm wondering how to spend my current time: I do have the freedom to get onto the market inthe mornings...

Jim Hi, many thanks for your time in answering. Ok, I think your first message is that stamp duty shouldn't make UK stocks a hopeless case and this is a good piece of encouragement though the flip side probably means I need better set-ups! I had been looking at stamp duty as invariant with...

Hi JM99 - Thankyou - I think I see the overall point but actually I haven't heard the phrase "walk forward out of sample" before. Also I'm not familiar with pardo though I have looked him up elsewhere. Amazing what you find if you only have a starting place...I'll check it out Benton - Thank...

Thank you - other views are welcome but that brings me to my next question already: If backtesting provides "limited assurance", then how does a trader know that they have "an edge" (to quote a phrase I have seen on T2W a lot) or equivalently in my language "a basis for making decisions"...

Dear all I have been trying to learn to use a backtester for a while and also developed indicators on the platform that I use that attempt to perform an independent assessment of the fraction of times a particular set-up leads to success. What strikes me as clear is that (for swing trading...

Dear all An interesting thread, even with its left turns here and there. I'd like to get back to the original topic. As I see it, specifically as a UK resident, there are the following factors governing which market to follow with a view to trading: 1. - UK LSE involves 0.5% stamp duty on...

Ok, thank you. I'm guessing that most large institutions have "an exemption", i.e. stamp duty maybe essentially a voluntary tax paid by those of us that don't know how to get an exemption. So, maybe one needs to make a number of arrangements, e.g. like trading through a limited company and hence...

Back to the UK, and the right thread this time.... Does "everyone" who is based in the UK and trading UK shares pay stamp duty or does it just apply to individuals, not companies or partnerships? It seems difficult to imagine how folks could successfully scalp whilst chuicking 0.5% of their...

oops, posted that reply on the wrong thread - please ignore I'll re-post correctly

Does "everyone" who is based in the UK and trading UK shares pay stamp duty or does it just apply to individuals, not companies or partnerships? It seems difficult to imagine how folks could successfully scalp whilst chuicking 0.5% of their capital away each time. What do city firms do?

hi thanks, that had puzzled me - in my original post I used the language I found on the website regarding personal assets, as I could recall it. It wasn't really clear to me at the time what they meant by individual risks. Whatever it was I think it was something quite different to the...