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Looking to do low-medium volume, decent prices and a clean API. Any recommendations?

At the end of the day all I really care to know is that the U.S. laws allow or rather don't disallow trading spot FX with foreign brokers. Seems the consensus here is that they don't disallow it. The only reason to care is that there is a wider number of options to chose from when including...

To clarify, if the firm only offers spot FX instruments, they can accept U.S. customers? But if they allow trading in CFDs or other non FX markets, then they can't accept them? Is that a rule in their country or in the U.S.? It would seem as long as a U.S. citizen is not trading those...

Seems there are a number of ECN-type brokers in the UK or Swiss. Are these open to U.S. citizens according to current U.S. law, or are U.S. citizens limited only to the brokers/ECNs that are NFA regulated? My understanding was that since FX is not a regulated instrument that there are no...

Looks like this is for swaps and forwards, not spot trading. Shouldn't affect the spot trader from what is said in that article. Obviously the bill will need to be read closer.

Just to clarify you're speaking of futures, for a commodity tracking ETF, like gold, this is not an issue, provided the ETF doesn't gain any of its exposure through futures (some do). GLD I believe holds physical gold to gain its exposure.

Why? Just curious.

What? Central banks had to come to an agreement to sell gold in an *orderly* fashion because prior to the original signing various central banks were dumping gold in a totally chaotic way. Selling anything in large quantities in a chaotic way would cause it to be devalued. You think tomorrow...

Yes, from the looks of it that is showing time and sales, quotes and trades. Who's your vendor?

Can you elaborate? If the ETF is tracking with very positive correlation, and spreads are reasonable, where's the problem?

This site isn't called EliteShortTermTrader. There are plenty of longer trading styles, and as I suggested, there are plenty of short term traded instruments that are effected heavily by the macro view du jour. Commodities, currencies, are just a few. The point is that macro is no more or...

It's still a good plan. Who doesn't want a legacy?

How many days of historical quotes and trades do you supply? And what is the quality of the data? How scrubbed is it? Thx. Frankly the eSignal site is so overloaded with different product versions it gives me a headache to try to figure it out. Too many products and not enough time for me to...

I can find some good discount brokers, but few seems to offer API access. I realize that is an obvious tradeoff. Just wondering if there are any lesser known brokers that offer low commissions on stocks/ETFs and API access?

Doesn't appear to be a catch. Remember they want to eat into the marketshare of the current kings of ETFs. They have huge retail liquidity, so they stand nothing to lose here since letting their own customers trade for free will only further advance the popularity of these ETFs which they make...

I am a bit annoyed by the lack of historical quotes for IQFeed's tick data. They only provide historical trades for tick data. I understand ESignal does provide historical quotes and trades. Is it worth switching? I do like IQFeed's pricing and reliability though. Unfortunately it seems...

This is what I've been told. If true, is there any decently priced vendor that provides the quotes in addition to the actual trades for tick data on CME, and equities? IQFeed is very good otherwise, but this seems like a pretty big limitation for historical tick data. And as I understand...

Thanks.

I see yahoo has one, not sure how reliable it is. Anything out there better and free? Or is that good enough?