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I am currently assessing the purchase of a software package for technical analysis, backtesting and system writing. It seems that these 2 packages are the market standards. Does anyone have experience using these software systems and any recommendations of one over the other ? Jeff

If you can trade directly with a bank, for huge hedge funds, multi-nationals, etc..., the bid/ask is about 5bps wide, depending on size. It widens out from there but I would not pay more than 20-30 pips wide.