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What does it cost to publish stock data for the US on a public website (e.g. Yahoo Finance, Google finance, finviz.com etc)? In Europe this is around 1500$ per month for delayed and 3000$ for realtime.

If the S&P500 future is down 1% at 9:29 ET, how will the S&P open (adjusting for the disparity between future and cash)? In other words how good of an indication is the pre-market trade and how much of an effect does the first minute of trading have?

How good is the indication of premarket trading for the actual open on the S&P500? Does anyone have a link / study on this? Thanks.

Hmm, so is GMA a solid quirky plattform or buggy? The docs looks rudimentary. "ECHOtrade is home to some of the premier automated traders in the industry. " If that is so I wonder why they don't offer other plattforms.

I liked the last thread better. lol

I am currently based in Europe and thinking about moving to Canada to trade for a prop firm. I trade fully automated, mostly small- and midaps. Echo and Bright get mentioned often as two very respected firms. However, I am bit disappointed by the comments on the infrastructure. There is a...

I have been thinking about this. To answer the question: as with any auction, your decision will be based on some kind of trade-off between the probability that the order will get filled and the price. If you absolutely want to get filled you enter a market order or a limit order which is...

Trying to figure out how this works... So what you are saying is that the equity of the trader is subject to some internal margin-system? For example, very simply put, if the firm has 1M$ and 10 traders, each one of the them gets 10% = 100k buying power? But if the firm itself uses outside...

Hello, what kind of margining-system to "typical" prop shops have with regards to smaller stocks? For example IB uses as a general rule that stocks below 250M$ marketcap are not marginable. I would think that a good risk-management system uses other factors such as volume, %float, etc. as...

Make a prediction for sales / reservations and we will compare. 11k are reserved and 5k will be delivered. What is your guess for total sales by end of the year? My number: 30k, which would mean they would sell 2013's production by the end of this year.

Very aggressive short covering IMO. Risk reward for the shorts very bad now.