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Hi Sam My RRSP account is with ScotiaITrade. They have the same fees for US equities as they do for Canadian equities. If you maintain over $50,000 in your account, there is a flat fee for each trade of either $6.99 or $9.99 depending on your monthly trading activity level. As I am a...

I am a Canadian, living in Canada. I have a Tradestation Account, primarily to have access to the platform for strategy development and backtesting, but do my 90% of my futures trading through the Canadian division of IB. I am not sure why you would want an account at a US retail firm when...

If you take a profitable trend following system working off the daily or weekly charts, it can easily be automated, but there is not much point to it. It only takes a few seconds to manually enter an order for a strategy that only triggers at most 5 trades per year per market. As an...

Hi Junkyard, I am a Canadian, living in Canada, with a Tradestation account. There is some extra paperwork to fill out when applying, but unless things have changed in the past 5 years, you should be able to get one too. Multicharts (a tradestation clone) has an interface to IB. I also...

I am Canadian, and maintain both a Tradestation and IB account. I have also investigated MultiCharts, which is a Tradestation clone (same GUI, compiles EasyLanguage for faster strategy optimizations), and which also has an API with IB. So you can use your Tradestation strategies in MultiCharts...

My favourite read covering trading during crashes is the autobiography of Marty Schwartz, Pit Bull. Marty Schwartz is also interviewed in Market Wizards. If I remember rightly, he was the trader willing to step in and buy when Soros was puking up a huge long position when there were no other...