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The reason why a back test can be different and vary from the platform you use is due to the data provider they are using to pull in information. There are many different data providers such as Interactive Data, Kinetic data feed, IQ Feed and more. All data streams will always have bad ticks...

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You cannot use the OnDemand Function for live data unless you have an account with TD Ameritrade. It doesn't take much to open an account with them. However, if you do not want to open an account with them you can play back previous days. Plus current day feed is delayed by 15 minutes.

What type of securities are you looking to demo trade with? Equities, Options, Futures, Forex..

Prompttrader.com is a free chatroom.

Above mentioned are brokers. Do you need to have an account with either one of them in order to take advantage of the free real time data for Ninja?

To get live streaming data with Ninja Trader you need to pay for the data so its not free. You can only get delayed data for free. Same thing with ThinkorSwim, I believe it's delayed 15 minutes.

The Shutdown is going to end real soon and will be back up! Its inevitable

I don't believe that following the trend during the current market conditions is a good way to make a trading decision. We have a lot of fundamental factors that are definitely holding more weight then the technical side at this time. Wish you luck!

So much for the market going up :)

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Never heard of them. Whats the URL for their website?

Depends how you utilize it. If you use it to develop a strategy and commit to following its methods and not deviate away from it. Then you can feel comfortable to take it to the real market once deemed a profitable strategy. But if you use the demo for the sake of just trading without any...

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wow lol some pretty racist jokes on here...oh well....8-)

they fail because of lack of discipline

when you talk about PCS (private client services) you have options like Goldman, JP Morgan, Etc.

Slippage - your strategy only works in "theory" - not in reality.

it will be tough to convince me that anything with Leonardo Dicaprio would have a good-quality of trading details in it. It would likely be banking fluff and storylines revolving around sexual and personal relationships. just my 2 cents.

3-% risk is the most I will take on 1 trade. Seeing figures like 10-20% on 1 trade is crazy. 30-40% is just idiotic.