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Praetorians, I've been looking into this for a while as I also wish to do as you plan. A couple of brokerages stand out: 1) www.pointdirex.com has a FIX API you could use and their commissions for high volume can be negotiated. 2) www.interactivebrokers.com also has an API. In both cases...

Gary, I look forward to your next recommendation. :) Richard

I too have bought many, many books but frankly I'm not sure they've been of much help. Which book(s) do you recommend? Did any of these books help you in coming up with your trading strategy? Also, do you think think you'd be able to mechanize your strategy? (Maybe you don't want to?) By...

Hi Dickie, Thanks for all your information, I'm finding it very useful. I had come across Dundas a long time ago but now that I can see what it can do I've taken a closer look. Are you using the Pro. or the Enterprise edition? As far as I can gather the big difference between the two for...

I've been using VC++ but I wonder if I should be thinking of learning C#.net? What advantages would C#.net give me? Did you write the graphics library that allows you to draw your candlestick plots or is that part of C#.net (more or less)? I've looked into the MyTrack SDK. If heard some...

greenleaf, Nice thread and nice software. What programmming language have you written your application in? Also what quote service are you using? I assume you are using this service's API? What is the formula that you use for ranking stocks which involves volatility actually quantifying...

Mali, I came to the US on an F1 visa and got a job at a university after completion of my studies. If you have an F1 visa but are not attending school then you are out of status, regardless of the expiration date of your F1 visa. Since 9/11 the INS has been ever more vigilant about out of...

Jerry, It sounds like the bottleneck in handling a large number of stocks, such as 400 I mentioned earlier, is the speed of the computer. What about the speed of transmission that the ISP provides? I assume broadband DSL is OK? Richard

Jerry, I'm planning on using the IQFeed (DTN) with QT. I want to monitor about 400 stocks. I plan on passing the whole list of stocks to QT using the "AddStocksToPort" command (adding them to the CURRENT port) and then to read them all at constant timed intervals using the...

I don't know whether the DOW will go to 9000 or not in the near future; but according to Warren Buffet in a interview with Maria B. on CNBC (to appear later tonight) he believes that there are going to be better buying opportunities later on. I won't be betting against Warren, especially as I...

Yannis, What is your reason that you want to teach your kid to trade? And then the next question is, what sort of trader do you want him to be? Most traders appear to be discretionary or technical traders. To my way of thinking this is akin to acquiring skill playing video games, as someone...

Yeah, I thought about getting in at the open at around 2.00 but set my limit order for a better price. Aw well. Next stock ... Richard

The first thing I need to ask is why have you chosen trade the ES? I know it is very popular, but of all the mechanical systems that I have seen, the systems that produced the best performance is for stocks. Why wait for a set up to appear on one instrument, when you can trade the stocks of the...

abishiai, While I've enjoyed the money shows that I've attended; it appears that you got more out of them than I did. I did, however, learn to develop a healthy distrust and disblief for vendors who promise the "stock market dream" for others while not being able to fulfil it for themselves...

Jerry, Thanks for your response. In terms of functionality, all I believe I really need are 3 or 4 functions: 1) place a limit order, 2) check the status of the order, 3) cancel the order, and 4) check account balance (Others may want to do the same with stop orders.) Other...

Jerry, I'm most interested in being able to programmatically issue buy/sell oders to IB via the HTTP server interface with QT. As I already use this interface to monitor prices, it would also be great to be able to issue orders. Do you have plans to provide this functionality in the near...

Volker, Can you say some more about why you think what you stated is "the best combination" . The sierrachart.com site states: "The price for the full program with upgrades is $40 for 6 months. " So it appears to me that sierrachart + IB would be the least expensive. I know of a few...

Norm, I always thought that the TCI systems were black box systems. Were you able to deduce how their systems work enough to be able to repoduce it or do TCI actually tell you what is in their systems now? Richard

Babak wrote: Babak, I got a really good laugh at this. Thanks. Makes me feel a little inadequate that I haven't written anything which debunks EMH. Richard

Sucker, Have you (or would you) consider systems trading? Most, if not all, of the emotion is taken out when trading a system. You just need to follow it religiously and try to emulate the "backtest" going forward. Richard