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Any other choice except Interactive Brokers? Thank you very much !!

For trading FX, anybody build your own Indicators (like Moving averages, MACD.. ) by storing quotes from MM/ECN instead of using the indicators API provided by MM/ECN or the paid data feed ?

Currenex seems do not deal with individual clients, they dont even give response to my enquiries.. correct me if I am wrong, thanks.

For those ECNs that do not provide historical data, they cannot provide indicators API as well like moving averages, MACD.. etc. For Tenfore and ESignal, they charge around 100 USD per month.. So there is no total free solutions for ECN, am I correct ?

It's quite terrible that I cant find an ECN capable of providing the fundamentals of kick-starting my ATS development. IB: 30 days of historical data only, must sign up for a paper trading account MBT: no historical data at all Hotspot: request me to pay $1875 for a single currency...

Hi former, I am very interested for your recommendation and I cant wait until getting response from Hotspot. Would you please tell me in short their min deposit req, leverage ratio, API charge, API documentation link, availability of historical data for backtesting, backfill.. etc ? What about...

seems no better brokers providing data feeds, years of historical data for backtesting, good platform and free API for trading except MQ4 brokers if not concerning the reliability in the run time environment.. brothers, any other choices? I have tried to port my strategy from MQ4 brokers to IB...

Thank you HBC !! So you mean that I am perfectly legal to do so ? From the registration screen, I need to select my country of residence... then I select "UK".. although when I dialed to the operator, he said that it means the country where I have the permanent residence right.

Dear all fellows, I have a problem...IB currently blocks all HK residences on trading FX.. if I state that I am living in UK (with UK residence right), I can pass the restriction but is it illegal to do so? Actually I am now holding British national overseas passport with work permit on it only...

Hello fellows, I would like to know where do you host your application normally? I have found a good hosting software called Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) and for its partner sites: http://www.swsoft.com/en/partners/current/search?country=US&type_id=59 I have located lots of datacenters...

hi Streamline, thanks for your input As I know prime brokerage services mainly serve hedge fund clients where they usually posses a mechanical strategy .. but not sure it's common to have purely mechanical or partially mechanical. I think it will be common to have purely mechanical systems in...