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My data provider always rolls on the 8th of the expiration month (or the first trading day thereafter). Is that the standard or is there some other way this is being determined. Thanks in advance!

I've used eSignal with MetaStock Pro in the past. Currently using eSignal with proprietary software. I highly recommend eSignal. eSignals charting is pretty poor, but there are other 3rd party analytical packages, such as metastock and ensign with much better charting.

I traded futures full time a few years ago. In those days CQG was "known" to have the most reliable and accurate data feeds. I personally used eSignal and was very happy. I'm still using eSignal, but am now focused on stocks. I never found FutureSource a good choice. At least in 98/99 they...

Indigo are excellent of giving "canned demos" at the various trade shows. They basically provide a large selection of basic simple systems, and when run across a large universe of stocks, some systems will (by chance) do well. I spent a few hours playing with the product and selecting other...

mjt, It's very important that you get the latest drivers! The WHQL drivers will not allow you to set resolution independently (and WHQL is very likely what is installed on your system) When you've installed the latest drivers you need to enable "dualHead" and then also select "Extend...

(Antistatic) Wrist Strap: It's a wrist strap that you attach to your computer case to ensure that you're not charged relatively to the computer. If you touch memory chips without being "discharged" there is a high riskthat you'll cause damage to the chips. Here is a link to a 3M document...

The easiest thing to do is to go into the BIOS configuration. You typically do this by pressing ESC, DEL or F1 early in the boot process. BIOS has a field indicating how much memory it believes your system has. If it says 256MB, you know that one of your DIMMs is not being recognizied. Given...

I've used eSignal's Level II. Works great. Charts could be better.

Babak, Typically the graphics card has its own RAM. Some graphics cards will use system memory for certain memory intensive features such as textures and mipmaps. Generally you're much better off getting a graphics card with 16 or 32 MB of on-board memory since that will support virtually...

I'm looking for a least a few years of historical intraday data on NYSE Advancing and Declining issues. 1 min or 5 min bars would be preferred. Any recommendations on where I can find/purchase such data? thanks !

m_c_a98: Thank you for the pointer. I was running the latest WHQL drivers, which do not support true dual head. The latest beta drivers do. I'm finally able to run my LCD in digital mode, since it doesn't have to match my 21" sony.

Predictor, Are you sure you don't have an AGP slot? I'd say just about all PC's shipped since 2nd half of 1998 have AGP. Anyway. With two PCI graphics controllers vs one dual PCI controller, I'd suspect that you'd see slightly better performance using two cards. The only time you'd see...

Re: one "dual" card vs two "single" cards. The biggest advantage with one "dual" card is that you only have one AGP slot in your computer, hence you'll benefit from having all graphics in the specialized graphics slot. I use a matrox millenium dual-head (two monitors on one AGP graphics...

Does anyone have good data on which percent of SPY trades on ISLD ? Any experience with SPY on ISLD? Looking at the ISLD book it looks feasible for anything other than very short term trading.

I have had limited success with fills going through the specialist at AMEX. They tend to hold your orders, often for several minutes. I did a test run about 5 months ago and put in market orders for 100 shares a few times. I consistiently got filled at the worst price within the following one...

CaroKann, It appears that quote.com have found that some of their outages/slowdowns are caused by "poorly programmed" applications that requests incorrect or invalid data. While not officially documented, the ContinuumClient now slows down clients requests so that any application only can...

Greg, I found trying to hit a market market (either through SOES or SelectNet) at the inside market is very difficult. Maybe I'm not fast enough, but I have had much more success just using Island and putting in bids/asks slightly better than the inside market. I don't trade a lot of volume...

Re: myTrack. Their C++ api's support order-entry, the Java API does not.

gh1, I could have explained that more clearly :) Let's say you're long XXXX and that you are currently looking to sell. The current market is 29.9 by 30. If you look at Level II you may notice that there are only 200 shares at 30, 200 at 30.1 while there are 500-1000 at the best bid. In...

The float is not as important as how much volume there is at any given time. Try to load e.g. ALTR and INTC in two Level II boxes and have a look at the liquidity at the different levels. If you're an experienced trader you can exploit the "air pockets" that often occur in lighter issues like...