How I Keep Two Servers in Sync Without a Message Broker
Backtests were getting slow enough to matter, so they moved to a couple of old laptops at my house. The problem was that a backtest
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The Broker Account Balance That Isn't There Yet
A position-sizing calculation blew up. Not a wrong number — no number at all. The account had money in it, the broker knew the balance,
The Broker Evaluation Gauntlet: Four Futures APIs Compared
Part of Broker Architecture I've integrated four brokers into the same codebase. Three are still running. One is gone. This is the evaluation
Why I Fired My Broker (and What I Replaced Them With)
Part of the IBKR Saga The question wasn't hard to answer. A stop order is the most basic risk management primitive in trading