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Thank's for that link, it looks like my $1600 might need to stretch to $2k to get something above average. I'm assuming I'd have to pay 12 months rent up front being a foreigner, which is why I'm trying to keep the costs down. Yeah thanks for that gents! My British stiff upperlip has had...

I'm considering moving to the US from the UK for a few years. Only one thing I don't know where I'm going........... I'm open to any suggestions. Background info 27yr Male no ties or dependants, will be trading and enjoying life in the US for a bit. Criteria: Within 1hr drive of...

IB don't seem to provide UK Level 2 data for equities. Does anyone else with experience in this sort of thing have any suggestions as to how I might capture this data?

D craig thanks for your reply. I've fired up my old IB account again. Will try the API for UK Level 2. theknifemac I'm using sharescope's L2 at the moment. They supply Level 1 data via DDE but not much else. I would be happy to switch suppliers to one that allowed me to extract L2 data...

I'm trying to find some way of extracting level 2 data from UK shares and feed it into my own program. Is there a way of doing this? I can get a DDE link output for "level 1" data, but not Level 2. Would a decent programmer be able to extract the data from my level 2 software package...

Use cfd's for DMA (stamp duty free) The spreads depend on the share. 1000p+ = 1p spread. 500-1000p = 0.5p spread. < 500 = 0,25p spread or 0.1p for very cheap shares. Coms are much higher than US rates. Expect to pay at least 6bps per CFD trade.

Superb thread. I trade full time in the UK and it is my only source of income. I can relate to a lot of posts on this thread.