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It's a nice place... I can recommend places to stay if you ever want to visit. I made a mistake in the last post, the official language is Dutch (legal system, schools etc) although Papiamento is the native language. English is all I ever spoke while there and I always found that the...

Papimanto, Dutch, English and Spanish are mandatory for anyone who has been through their school system. Dutch, English and Spanish are spoken fluently by all locals although Papimento is the official native language. It sounds like the above + Portuguese. Anyone who has the right to visit...

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For a while it looked like the cable Co. was going to offer an alternative ( backup) option but lo and behold, I heard that Setar the main Telco and conectivity provider bought the cable company... Either way I think all communications to/from the island pass through a Setar owned line or feed...

I love it there... The wind is also great for kiteboarding which is reason #3 for me for wanting to live there lead by reasons 1 and 2: beautiful overall(beaches, weather and sunsets) and great people. The grocery stores are also excellent once you find them... My only concerns are...

Thanks for your concern. My wife and I will most likely end up settling in the Noord area if all goes as planned. Despite the current slant in the media, it's like a small town and generally a very safe island ... The people are well educated and largely very friendly and...

I plan to relocate to Aruba and hope meet any other traders who live there... Anyone here live in or trade from Aruba? Best regards, Alex

try x-keys http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15587&highlight=xkeys

Shame on you TradeStation! You would hope that they would learn their lesson and spend a little less on marketing and a little more on infrastructure... There's a prime reason that stops that are part of an automated system should not be held locally. I wonder why manually entered stops get...

I have used one or another version of Tradestation for 3-4 years, currently TS 8 . I do not trade with them though. Regarding automation: I have worked with some programmers and a prop. firm that trades only automated systems. Beware of turning on an automated money drain that looks good in...

Sorry if the definitions were over the top, I just wanted to make sure that I was satisfactorily explicit _for_other_people _reading :D I have had systems that produce 100% correlation between tests and fills as well as systems that have 50% or less. The higher the frequency (shorter...

I have mixed feelings about the value of market depth as a stand alone indicator primarily due to to hidden size... I do place value in time and sales and the impact of large trades on remaining posted liquidity at price areas around those I'm observing or intending to trade near. Sorry...

Since slippage was not part of the question I assumed we were discussing limit orders away from the market. Don't market orders get filled with the exception of limit moves? Here is my reference for order descriptions: CME http://www.cme.com/edu/getstr/clslkord643.html "Limit Orders...

and you will a have a more conservative view of potential results. Limit orders may not be filled even for small size even when placed well in advance. I have worked with a firm that automates and trades a large number of systems and have come to the following conclusion: You are...

Does anyone know about IP tunneling? I overheard or read something along those lines. I imagine it means specifying a route to your final destination and somehow protecting the integrity of that route. How about vpn? I'm automating a system that will benefit from a low latency...

Here's one for the systems developers out there: What kinds of issues do you encounter when implementing a high frequency system for futures? If there is anyone on the board that has experience developing systems and creating apps that make use of one of the APIs mentioned in the thread...

Does anyone know of platforms for the retail trader that have a well documented API? So far I know of: Interactive Brokers - their's is free to use, well documented and has many automation apps available already. Pats Systems(?) - J-Trader - I think there is a $1000 monthly fee...

Other than IB I know of Fast Trade and Velocity. Anyone use either of them?

Does anyone know of other companies like ATD? I imagine where there is on success story more are likely to follow... I even vaguely remember seeing something about some people affiliated with Bright or one of the other prop firms using or trying to use automated (very) short term systems.

It would be unreasonable to expect anyone to hand over or even sell a good marketmaking or scalping system. However, if there is anyone out there that has programming experience applicable to automating an existing strategy, I'd be happy to hear from you. It seems that strategy aside, the...