Recent content by wn_leader

I can't find anything on the NYMEX website either, but TradeStation sent the following out to their clients: "Please be aware all trading in NYMEX and GLOBEX Energy contracts is halted until 11:00 pm ET due to the 9/11 observance." Nice of them to let us know at the last minute.

Bonds and Notes up sharply on open. Concerns about insurance losses, hit to the economy from storm, etc?

Yes, I realize that not all trades are transmitted through the broker feeds. What happened in this case is that I entered a "Stop#" sell order just when the bid/offer changed and my order price happened to match the bid price. The order was immediately executed even though no other trades had...

J-Trader holds eCBOT stop orders as synthetic orders that are sent out as market orders when triggered. My understanding is that the stops are triggered when a trade crosses at the stop price but on a couple of occasions it looked like my stops were triggered as soon as the bid (for sell stops)...

For intraday data try these guys with QCharts - http://www.mechtrading.com

You're right. When I was in third grade a tester came to our school looking for kids to promote to the district 'enrichment program' and my teacher recommended me. The guy administering the test guided you through each question and you were to point to what you thought was the correct...

IB has no data history so if you need a continuous data stream - to build price bars for example - you better have a way of staying connected. Not to mention their servers will go down from time to time in any case.

IQFeed is alright but has some annoying issues that they are still promising to work out. One is that the timestamps they send out with the ticks only have resolution to one minute. Have you looked at http://www.mechtrading.com/developers/index.htm? Lets you connect to eSignal or Quote.com...