Recent content by ozzymandius

h Thanks CS, but MBT is also comes under FINRA, unfortunately. Otherwise, they looked pretty good.

Dukascopy has been high on my list, based on my recent net research. But their $50k minimum and the lack of MT4 or AmiBroker integration are a hindrance. It would take me some time to reprogram my system to use either their FIX option or funky Java API. I will likely process with DK...

Hoping some traders out there can give me some recommendations on appropriate brokers. Right now I trade with Interactive Brokers, doing about 60-100 trades per currency pair each 24 hours. I currently use AmiBroker, with an automated trading system. But I need to diversify ASAP, as IB is...

I am not familiar with CME FX futures, as I have only traded spot FX to date. But does IB allow us to trade CME FX futures? What is the approximate leverage? And what is a good data source for these, going back 5 years or so? Any pointers much appreciated.

The NFA could very well come up with something similar. But right now, they haven't. Guess the powers-that-be only want large institutional traders, and banks to have access to high leverage.

Seems that FINRA is serious about reducing leverage for retail forex brokers all the way down to 1.5:1! In January they proposed the rule, and received 108 comments (107 of which were AGAINST the proposal). Now they have filed the rule and are awaiting approval...

Thanks Euler. That helps!

Hello, Hoping someone with more professional experience might be able to offer suggestions for advanced autotrading solutions. Right now I auto trade with Interactive Brokers, using their API and AmiBroker. My trading business is growing to the point that I want to spread my...

Ha ha. Yeah, I'm an eL1te Usah, or soon will be, with my kick-ass overclocked machine. My backtesting is something like that...many parameters, stepping by one, and testing on one-minute data to boot. And to make matters worse, my algorithms demand exhaustive testing, rather than using...

and when you say that Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition runs all the processors to their full potential, do you mean that all the processors and all the RAM can be applied to a single instance of a 32-bit app? Or do you mean that I can run one app on each processor and divide the ram up...

I am considering it. But what makes me nervous is that I have zero experience running enterprise server software. I've only run the various iterations of Windows (2000, 98, XP). What kind of learning curve would be involved with 2003 server? And is it still fully supported?

Thanks for all the replies, guys. A lot of options to chew on. To answer some of the queries, I need speed because continuous backtesting is necessary to calibrate my trading system weekly. The system works well (i.e. it's actually stable and profitable). And if I had enough computing...