Recent content by wfo

Thanks for the reply - a very valid point and we are already working on "personalisation" to help here. Ultimately though, we're looking to provide a Bloomberg-type firehose of real-time news / analysis (programmatically linked to a watchlist or topics/groups chosen by the end user so it should...

information symmetry for retail investors - is there a "need"? Hi, Not selling just looking to gauge reaction from the ground so any comments will be of interest: We are financial technology firm currently evaluating entering the online retail trading / investing space. We're particularly...

Spreadsheet is ready to go - was just hoping for something a little more like a trading platform if possible.

Thanks for the suggestion but don't you need to put a deposit down to even open a demo account with IB? Hoping to open a demo account without having to deposit any money if possible.

Hi all, Can any of you recommend a good, and current, paper trading platform for stocks? Thanks wfo

Oh well thanks for the reply.... Will teach me when to put trades on in the future!

Very annoyed - went long on the DOW last night after the close around 9:15pm (UK time) and was happy as the position came to me... Checked it again around 10pm and I'd been stopped out when I should have been well in the money! IG Index tell me (and I've checked, so they're not telling porkies...

Very annoyed - went long on the DOW last night after the close around 9:15pm (UK time) and was happy as the position came to me... Checked it again around 10pm and I'd been stopped out when I should have been well in the money! IG Index tell me (and I've checked, so they're not telling porkies...

Agreed rawrschach. Also, as someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, there's a lot to be said for running your own dosh (less hastle, more autonomy, capture more of the upside etc etc)... worth noting that quite a few funds do it also (ie/ return investors money after a while and run...

sales trading is seen as a good job and be be very well paid on the sell side (ie/ in an investment bank). You're often working very closely with hedge fund and long only clients (assuming you're institutional - which is where you'll want to be), giving them news flow, rumours and insight into...

But.... how easy is it to move to a new place? Has anybody found it smoother if you've got captial? (ie/ at least a few hundred grand?)

My 2p worth.... Most of the big IB banks do (did?) have prop desks running many different strategies in many different asset class via quant / discretionary methods (on top of the usual market making / client execution trading). Unfortunately the recent problems in the markets has seen pretty...

"If" you play Citi - I'd advise to only take a small position (to the extent that you wouldn't lose sleep if you lost the lot) due to the risks Genics mentions above. However, your small position could soon be a big one "if" it makes it... Bottom line = it's a big punt!

Sure - it will be interesting to see if this the start of a trend although for now I'll stick with my comment above :)

IMO, we're still range bound until Q3/4 (macro data is still going to be mixed giving the bulls and bears a turn to run the market). As for the market crashing below the lows we've seen already this year, it's going to need a pretty big "black swan" event - bigger than only a few months ago when...