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Very dramatic, but are you able to prove this statement with any reasonable degree of certainty?

Is this just another example of a major bank buying in a product to sell on to retail customers because the retail volume is too small to be worth handling in house? I have seen a few instances like this. For example all Barclays retail CFD trading goes through to CityIndex.

Do you actually trade or just spend years and years developing software? Re: Traders which are nonprofessionals will be able to reach similar execution quality like the big investment banks It isn't going to happen.

Yes, they automatically place trades so you can sit back whilst the broker automatically makes commissions. Your own account may go up or down.

This post makes me think you are likely to run into trouble sooner or later but good luck with your endeavours.

Market making and liquidity provision programs are not so uncommon. The edge they have is that the market has a spread and ticks in fixed increments both of which are structural inefficiencies. Stat arb is another example.

I have managed to do it but it is extremely difficult for a whole host of reasons and it does not surprise me at all the majority of people that attempt it fail. I would anticipate the failure rate is much higher than 90% as you have an additional layer of complexity on top of the difficulties...

6. With a reputable broker :D

Or of the daily returns: ln(P[0] / P[1]) which is close to the percentage change.

Have you looked at the South African Rand and Danish Krone? Didn't think the Ruble did much.

It will obviously be a day when all the techincal factors align for unholy profits.

I thought the devil was the patron saint of traders!

www.tickplusdata.com Has professional quality data at reasonable prices.

Try www.tickplusdata.com

TT are an ISV so they only supply trading software and not brokerage. Hence, if you wish to use the TT platform you will need to find a broker that supports it. I can be a good idea to source data independently from whoever you execute through. This means you can look around for the broker...

I presume you are talking about FAST? I am not aware of any retail focused brokers that are offering data via FIX at all, compressed or otherwise.

Getting data seems to be a much bigger problem than the execution path. It seems to be where all the costs and difficulties show up.

What are your reasons for not using it for data? I admit it is quite a slow and inefficient way to pass data but again it has the benefits of being a standard.

$500/mo sounds quite reasonable for a professional quality feed and would certainly be within reach of semi-pro traders. Although the majority will not pay this much there is a small percentage of serious independent traders that realise the benefits of having good data who will. Unfortunately...

Yes of course, however your European and Far East market coverage is very limited and your internet delivery technology could also be substantially improved. What I was suggesting is that there was a market for something half way between a wholesale feed and retail oriented feeds like IQFeed...