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Doug- A second account is always smart, but won't do you any good to offset risk when tradestation can't tell you if you've been filled or what you position is. I've been there with them and it's like operating in total darkness.

Just call their number for new accounts to bitch- it doesn't take more than two rings to get a live person there. Funny how they value prospective clients more than existing ones. Exactly why I left.

You might take a look at this. Integrates well with esignal. Price is right. http://hoadley.net/options/options.htm

DJIA multipliers: http://averages.dowjones.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showComponentWeights&rptsymbol=DJI&sitemapid=1

If you don't need the leverage just do it in a retail account.

There's some info at the CBOT website. http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,1175,00.html

Jeff- thank you. That helps. www.quickfixengine.org that I mentioned has a C++ API, so that is how I was hoping to bypass the COM objects.

They say it's darkest just before dawn... The sun may rise on me yet so that I can join the ranks of the illuminati.

OK. Thanks for the replies so far- A C++ API would be great, but I'm sticking with Redi+ for now. From the Redi website, this is what they offer: We offer a range of products and services which facilitate seamless, effective integration of your trading system with RediPlus...

I've been working on an ATS and finally have a beta version that can do some live trading, but I'm having a problem. To start- I'm not much of a programmer. Someone else is helping me out with the guts of the code, but he is not a trader. So both of us are somewhat in new territory here...

The autospreader is always fun to play with. The pro license gives you access to that. Try setting up an ESu5-ESz5 spread to get a feel for it.

take a look here: www.camtasiastudio.com

bouncingsoul- you'll be fine. I used dearborn and many of the questions were word for word from the practice tests. Lots of options and munibonds on the test, but pretty basic coverage. no worries.

Thanks all. I thought there might be a margin problem. I knew you could trade futures as long as you always have overnight margin, you just don't get intrady margin. Riskarb- IB acct. not open. rolling it from a schwab acct.

Steve or Def? What say you? I checked the IRA FAQ but could find no mention of Forex.

I got a message from redi that there would be no quotes for listed stocks until tomorrow, but it did not give a reason.

Part of COP was that it went Ex-D today. So if you had that on from yesterday you have a nice bonus coming. PJ.

Here's the YM_DIA spread. Very efficient. you can trade it but you better be quick and have low transaction costs.

Says on their website that they do have prop: Proprietary Trading The management of Velocity takes the opportunity to work with the growth of trading careers on a one on one basis in our proprietary group. Our proprietary trading managers focus on a strong curriculum that teaches...