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I am trying to find out - here on ET. Any pointers for web links, books, etc. would be highly appreciated.

I'm just trying to learn/understand how the business works - is it such a problem to explain?

How much money would I need?

Being your own forex broker - does anybody know what's involved in becoming one? I mean to be directly trading forex instead of going through brokers like FXCM, GFT, Oanda, etc? Thanks in advance.

Infected messages are spam, so K9 can help you there. Also, you can preview messages in K9. P.S. Which version of Outlook are you using? 2003 version automatically blocks unsafe content - no automatic downloading of images or any other linked content from the websites you did not explicitly...

Wallace, I've been using free software called K9 (http://keir.net/k9.html) with lot of success - spam detection has been in 99.5% accuracy range for the last 3 years. Out of all spam catchers, including SpamBayes, K9 remains the best imho. Too bad it did not get more credit for it. P.S. In...

Imho, you did, not because of VC# but because NinjaTrader is free. VC# is to learn programming and to eventually write code components (dlls) that can be used within NinjaTrader or OQ. For example, if you are planning to use FFT to analyze price signals, you should write code for computing...

ballsofgold, As an IT pro, I second everything Rabbitone said. If you’d take my advice, stay away from proprietary languages tied to one trading platform (like TradeStation EL, or similar). Your decision to learn c# is the right one imho. Download Visual C# 2008 Express (free) which is MS...

@Trader_Herry Just get a twin-wan router - end of story and problem solved. I'm using Xincom 502. It's around $160, but worth every penny - http://www.xincom.com/products/502/overview.php

Anybody with recommendations for forex brokers that are: 1) compatible with NinjaTrader 2) don't charge spread 3) have L2? Thanks.

@Siddhartha TSG2 guys are very good in math but their marketing dept obviosly sucks. As I mentioned, it is a pure win32 c dll and has no dependecies tied to TS - you call it from TS EL and not the other way around. It has gui too for results grids and graphs. I'll definitely use it with...

@KeithOmalley Mac is better in what way exactly? And what trading software runs on Mac anyway?

I know - I checked those and some of the reviews are dated, so I was looking for some new insight. Especially direct feature to feature comparison.

Hi, Anybody with some experience with either or both care to share pros and cons? Much apreciated.

@Siddhartha, Thanks for providing more details - I did not see your points as knocking Ninja or anything like that - I just wanted to get your input in case I've missed something during my evaluation. It's great that Amibroker has such great features that are working out for you. Cheers.

@Siddhartha, Optimization: Of course, brute force optimization (BFO) is slow in any package. I guess AmiBroker has some kind of an optimizer built-in, which is not the case with most of the platforms. Your bar is way too high there. My only criteria for optimization is that the platform has...

@Siddhartha, Here's my take on the tools. OpenQuant: My experience with OQ is exact as yours - I think they are understaffed and consider OQ small potatoes. I too had trouble getting timely replies and specific answers, but they never forgot to offer me all the tools from them for $15K...

@Siddhartha, Charting, Out of 3 you mentioned Ninja still has the best charting api imho. If you don't believe me, just open RightEdge and insert ParabolicSAR to see what I mean. Optimization: Without knowing more details it's hard to say, but in general - any optimization code should be...

Thanks Siddhartha - I see what you're saying. On the other hand, regardless of the tool and its support, I'd still write all what you've mentioned in VisualStudio as dlls, and reference them back in the trading software. Ninja allows me to instantiate any type of object coded in my custom...

@Siddhartha I'm playing with NinjaTrader as well - would you mind expanding on your claim that it's for "vanilla trader"?