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Exactly....tight stops can work, but expect them to get hit and don't let that "get to you". In many cases, my buy stop was the "top tick" of an afternoon swoon and I didn't put in another sell order I was so pissed-off. An hour later, I was kicking myself. All I had to do is put in another...

What you meant is could the market price move by more than 1 tick. Well, of course, I believe that actually happened on Friday during the 1:30 pm swoon which was very fast. I'd have to get Time and Sales data to verify however.

Yeah, what's the status of the TWSLink implementation ? Are you still working on it or ?

See this thread page: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81763&perpage=6&highlight=prop%20firms%20futures&pagenumber=8 There are some...but not many. Prop's make their bread and butter on stocks, not futures....nor options.

No, that is not possible unless the order was not transmitted from your workstation to the platform's servers and onto the exchange's order matching engine. In the case of a STOP LIMIT order, it could happen....but not with a STOP. It's never happened to me, and like Frank R, I've been stopped...

Good stuff Art...keep up the good work !

Uh...if you've followed other posts such as the one regarding why prop firms would keep your money, etc. http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82316&highlight=Prop+firms+keep+money it's apparent many prop firms are still behaving badly and without accountability. I think the...

Very interesting... Have you tried the REVERSE and gone short on the biggest decliners ? I wonder if your long-only method is working only because we're in a bull market right now ? If BOTH long and short techniques work most of the time, I'd say you got a winner here. If not, your long-only...

Well, it's easy when you have 2 separate machines running side-by-side on the same network...I just use a digital stop watch to do the comparison. I'm not naming names, but the slower vendor really was not in the high-speed, high-frequency futures trading arena. Still, it was an eye-opener for...

Bump.... no one on ET is using this platform to trade ?

Ebay IS a monopoly and many monopolies can make big mistakes (like the Skype purchase !) and still survive and indeed thrive. The fact that Goog has not created a real Google Auction site given the breadth of their technical ability, remains a mystery.

Bingo....and can you imagine how much better Ebay's results would have been without that stupid and outrageously expensive purchase of Skype ? Goog could easily "clone" and even "make better" Ebay's auction site. I've been waiting for them to do it...and waiting .... and waiting. What's wrong...

Was using the Pro console in the Paper account and tracking the emini Russell 2000 with this platform. Quite impressive. Even with Level II, the quotes were about 200 to 500 milliseconds faster than a competitive platform. I just wonder if there are many traders on this forum using this...

Exactly. You'd think they would take some of the good ideas from QCharts. Instead, they bought them out to remove a source of competition. I was a user for 2 years. No longer. For datafeed reliability reasons, I won't touch these 3 vendors for futures trading anymore:....tradestation, esignal...

Wrong, wrong, wrong....I actually had my best trade SHORT the Russell 2000 futures this afternoon. Caught the top within 3 ticks....great timing, that's all. The Russell was the weakest index today.

First of all, NOTHING is guaranteed in the equity futures markets. Secondly, those program guys have much, much more capital than we'll ever have to withstand huge drawdowns without getting shaken out.

You should check this out: http://www.traderssoft.com/ts/ods/ Then, contact their tech support and they might be able to offer a better solution. Most other order entry platforms have been able to "exploit" a back-door in TS2000i's POP3 email implementation....and thereby create a POP3 server...

Back then, you could make 2 morning trades, and be "up" $10k. Those days are gone, gone, gone. Schwab's DARTs are up only because you must trade much more often in this environment....smaller profit per trade = many more trades required.

I'm looking at both Infinity as well as Velocity futures....any recommendations ? BTW: Nice website....and your operation is in the Philly area ?

You've got solid, verifiable proof of that statement ? Funny thing, Lehman Bros is running a quant trading model based on that very premise. It originated from the University of Penn.