Recent content by jfilla

Sucks as it may, it's the reality. You can read all about it on this thread: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36783 The patent expires in 2016.

IB recently got sued by TT over the DOM, along with Cunningham. It's not like they just sat around and said, "Hey let's make the DOM suck with confirmations". The two key components of TT's patent are the static price ladder and single click entry, hence, the auto recentering feature and the...

filter, Are you trading all these contracts 1 at a time, or in lots? Im just trying to understand if you are making 25 individual trades or 4 or 5 trades using multiple lots? It seems you could be trading 1 HSI contract and saving a boatload on commissions, if you are in fact trading...

The only other one I know of that offers them is MF Global. - jeff

Again, it really depends on your intent with the application. For my app, I had several requirements: 1) Needs to be fast as possible to both read and write tick data 2) Needs to be lightweight and zero maintenance to users 3) Needs to be able to grow as large as necessary For me, db4o...

batman, db4o will easily keep up with what you want to use it for. Im doing real-time data storage at tick, bar, and daily levels at once (3 databases, on for each type) per symbol, and have not had any issues. Granted, I've never tried storing say 500 symbols in realtime, but I generally...

I use db4o and love it. But its like everything else, it really depends on what you want to use it to do. I use it as a data store for a pure client app, and it can easily add about 200,000 ticks worth of data in a second or two. Retreiving the data can be just as quick, depending on if you...

Mercor, It wasnt a buy stop, it was a limit order I had under the market after it had moved to around 17685 or so. I was looking for a retracement back into the 75 before a secondary push to the 100's. Obviously, it never retraced. There were probably 40-50 prints after 17720 or so. So...

Arkon, I assure you I was stuck to the screen, and there wasnt a damn thing anyone could have done to get you out of that trade. That's a 100 tick chart you're looking at. Literally 15 seconds. If you hit the buy market button to cover a short it would have been at the top. Sometimes...

LOL, I actually did have a buy order right at 17675 about a minute before mokwit, but I didnt get filled and didnt want to chase since tonights session didnt really have any follow through. About 30 seconds later, it blew up. Doesnt really matter though, cause I would have only been trying...

400 pt move in 15 seconds on HSI a little after second open. I always thank God everytime I dont get burned in one of these... http://twitpic.com/ab39h

MF Global. I pay about a tenth of IB's rate. Turn about 1000 contracts a month on HSI, 600 on K200. Doesnt include platform fee, but even with it you will be paying less than a quarter of ib's fee if you do the volume you say. PM for a broker name and email...

I tend to disagree with changing anything when you are in a drawdown, except for your patience in picking market opportunities. The math just doesnt work out when you start changing position sizes(up or down), and you definately dont want to go all in when you arent seeing the market well. I...

RedDuke, To be honest, Im one of those guys that believe its all reflected in the charts, so I dont really care about news events. But thats just me... I am big on correlations, however, and to me this market will move in close sync with the HSI, SPI and ES during a normal trading day...