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QUOTE "FWIW; [http://www.5perside.com/about.asp] I post this for the published rates commission shoppers... $1.75 all-in per side for ES, NQ, ER. That's a published RT all-in rate of $3.50!" ------------------------------------------ Does anyone here have an account with 5perside? Can you...

What is a DBA ? --------------------------- DBA stands for Doing Business As. There are companies that do business under several different names.

What would be a good way to short this market or a correlated one?

Based on the replies here and other opinions I could find on ET, I contacted 19 futures brokers and asked them a few questions about the services they offer. I put each broker in 1 of 3 groups: excellent candidates, good candidates, and bad candidates. I only had 2 futures brokers in the...

Which software do you use for backtesting? Over what time period(s) do you backtest? To what do you attribute the differences between your backtesting results and actual results?

I developed a crude rules based trading system for S&P 500 Futures. It is a trend following system similar to the turtle trading system but with a shorter time frame. I used daily data from 1984 through 2004 (open, high, low, close) in Microsoft Excel to calculate my trades, account balance...

From 1994-1997 I traded stock index futures. My broker was First American Discount Corporation (purchased by Man Financial, now called MF Global Futures). I paid about $33 per roundturn including exchange fees back then. I plan to open a Futures account soon with $20K to trade the eMini S&P...