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I currently use PATS feed with NinjaTrader. There it already TT feed available for NT5, but it is still in beta. I am curious, is there is a significant speed difference between TT and PATS, assuming the hardware and internet speed are identical? The question is for those who use X-Trader...

Below is an article from today’s Wall Street Journal. The two quotes in particular caught my attention: Besides greed, I do not understand why someone, who just wants to buy and hold, would invest into something like this. It has been proven clearly that just buying and holding S&P is...

Guys, this just too funny. Mr Double thanks for afternoon laugh.

Thanks for the links guys. Some of the titles are very new to me.

Exactly. Add to it other instruments like DAX, if one wants to trade liquid and volatile market. My original interest on forex came from the fact that I have a day job, and can not quit it until I am profitable and built my grub stake. I live in US and can only trade Europe morning. My...

Guys, FXCM is not bad, they are just too expensive to trade with. There are a lot on compliants that FXCM puts people on manual if they try to scalp on very short time frame (under 1-2 minutes), but what other like oanda do. Fist they give you a warning, and then if you do not adhere they will...

First of all, I traded real account at FXCM and liked their platform. But, and this is a big one, their spreads are too big. If you day trade, they will kill you. That is why I left (FXCM recently launched another platform - propfx, where spreads are tighter). During major news the platform...

DAX is another. Time will tell what happens to DD. When ES was launched, I believe it traded around 7,000 contracts per day.

Alpha_monkey, I'll provide a short summary, but some of the things are from some other ET threads and my experience (very limited and sim only) - I only trade DAX first 3 hours (3rd hour extra cautious since the mini trends do not run as long as first 2 hours). - There are plenty of tiny...

Great thread. Learned several new things. I used to trade forex eur/usd, but recently got interested in index futures, and I found DAX volatile and liquid enough for me to trade. I can only trade Europe morning, thus US instruments are out of reach for me right now. Sim trading it currently...

One of the best threads I have come across over a long time. I personally trade electronic futures (switching from forex), but these floor details are quite interesting. Regards, redduke

Hi Porgie, How true is the suff that you say. I keep reading and saying, spot on, spot on, spot on... Regards, redduke

Based on everything that was recently posted here. It looks like limit orders are the way to go for stocks. However, the futures are a different story. It all depends what is more important to ones strategy. Definitely being in the trade via market order or getting a little better price with...

Thanks a lot guys. This actually clarifies few things for me and gives me food for thought. I am going live in early April (one contract only obviously) to test things for real. Demo is useful, but live trading is ultimate test. Regards, redduke

This is an interesting and important thread. I am currently in the process of switching from forex to futures trading, and trying to figure out what is the best order type to be used. I am a short term trader (anywhere from few minutes to 1/2 hour, rarely 1 hour), and I trade certain patterns. I...

Dandxg, I have been trading it since last September. I am in the room every morning/night (only trade Europe open which is 2:30am to 7am my time), but I trade off my own decisions only. I am not as lucky as you to be able to find a personal mentor, but thanks to forums like these you can...

Vedanta, It took me a while to realize that I need to trade intra day. Long term charts do not fit my psychology. I am not wise enough to use them, and the risk tolerance is above my threshold on higher time frames. Once this was realized, I started going over many different systems suitable...

KS96, Thanks for this info. I was stunned when I saw it. What you said makes sense. redduke

How did it happen then, if it did not go through normal market? Is there some special privileges for large size traders/eurex members?

I have seen something strange few days ago on DAX. I use e-signal for my charting and suddenly there was a trade of 750 contracts. Usually, they come as 1, 5, 20, 50 in time and sales window. I thought the market is going to move sharply on such large order, but nothing happened. Any ideas, how...