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Anyone knows what is minimum account balance at lime?

Max, How lime compares with IB in terms of accessability for small retail traders... If I run small acc 20-30k does it make sense to go ahead with lime? What are the costs associated with trading trough lime?

Apologies if this was already discussed, but recently I was recommended Sterling trader for hft. 1. What's the API like? 2. Do they have data feed + execution or execution only 3. Do they have simulation environment so I can develop my software there 4. Are they expensive? 5. How they...

I guess this is NO

Is genesis suitable for HFT? If yes... on what frequencies?

Yeah

Hi Guys, I trade mainly ES mini futures. That gives me 50x leverage in US Equity markets...0.25c movement is 12.5 impact on my portfolio.... I simply love it! I recently started to trade NQ but it gives me only 20x! I figured that this might be due to higher volatility of NQ index? And...

Hi Guys, I trade mechanical system using custom developed software and IB as a broker. At the moment, I can be long/short or flat... I was thinking recently if I could easily go T-bill instead? What is the instrument for that? Also, I'm not sure how IB looks at my T-bill holding... for...

What's the name of the software you use?

Anyone to suggest good software to work-out scenarios for different strategies ?

Very good examples Rew... Is there some piece of software to give you those scenarios worked out.... So far I calculate manually usig excel? Thanks

OK but it seems very hard to make a profit at all.. even to break even. Let's take an example: Say call option for SPY with 118 strike costs $3. If I by one option, that's $300 out of my pocket.... then the market has to move to 121 so I can break even? am I missing something here?

Why is stop order so bad?

good point rew

What's so special about options right now? they are mature instruments traded for years

If you fo with futures and use stop-loss orders, you technically have an option... and you don't pay premium? Why options then? Unless you really want to bet on volatility and that ind of stuff

Can you give your three top reasons?

Are you sure... Last time I spoke with Line They were paranoid about their API... They wanted a meeting (phone) before they decide IF they can send the documenation....

50x is the contract multiplier.. So one tick is worth 50 times that tick. If I buy two contracts Market tick will be worth 100 ticks... Its very chunky if you know what I mean. I weight my positions with the confidence metric of my model... Very granular stuff. If model is very sure, I'll...

Thanks for response. The reason is as follows... I want to be able to control leverage with much more flexibility and precision than when trading mini futures... For example my leverage is either 50x or no leverage at all... What if my intraday model tells me to reduce leverage from 50 to 20...