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The only platforms that can come close to doing this are TradingTechnologies and CQG's AutoSpreaders. They do ratio and difference-based spreads. However, TT doesn't trade stocks, and I don't think CQG does either. (They are both very expensive too).

Tradingview has a pretty decent backtesting capability, although I would only use it for preliminary tests. You can only do one stock/futures/FX at a time. It has it's own scripting language so you can do some pretty complex stuff.

Yep, just the membership cost and commission savings aren't all the pieces! It definitely requires a spreadsheet.

Here is all the pricing info. You can also lease a seat, which is pretty reasonable, but your commission discount is less. It's easy to calculate breakeven commission volume once you have all of the pieces. https://www.cmegroup.com/company/membership/membership-and-lease-pricing.html

If you really want to dig into it, seasonalgo and MRCI (both paid services) are the best sources for ideas. I papertraded some Seasonalgo seasonals about 2 years ago and was moderately "profitable." I think the ags/meats/softs make more sense than financial contracts (currencies/indicies/bonds).

As long as you keep the same *percentage* of stocks/cash, then you will never run out of cash. An extreme example: 70/30 stocks/cash asset allocation in a $100,000 account $70,000 stocks $30,000 cash Stocks fall by 50% $35,000 stocks $30,000 cash $65,000 total Rebalance to: $45,000 stocks...

Rent a VPS and install it there. Log into VPS from remote computer and do your thing. Speedytradingservers dot com (no affiliation) or simply an AWS/Google Cloud instance should work, as long as you have a good ping to whatever server you are using.

Alan Woods has his own profile in the book "Gambling Wizards," which is modeled after the "Market Wizards" series and is very good.

Some traders claim that bonds or crude can lead ES (bonds in the opposite direction). I don't know if there is any data to back that up though. Jigsaw trading has a video (which I believe is free) that puts the DOMs of ES/NQ/RTY side by side to garner clues to the very short term direction...

1. You need to have a contract with a pipeline/storage company in Cushing, OK. 2. I don't know - probably not. 3. There are no storage futures, but there are pipeline/storage companies you can invest in (most are MLPs, which have been crushed). 3a. An interesting angle on investing in storage...

Barchart.com has free spread charting as well.

It definitely happens. Back in 2005 I was looking at a thinly-traded timber MLP called Pope Resources (POPE). One day in early February a popular newsletter writer (I think it was Steve Sjuggerud) wrote a bullish report on it. It had closed at $25 the previous day and opened at ~$35 the day...

He's quoting the local price. Natural Gas pricing is HIGHLY location dependent. If there isn't a pipeline near the well, the transport costs can be almost as much as (or more than in this case) the sales price. The NYMEX futures quote is for gas bought at the Henry Hub. The linked article shows...

If you want to know the list of a particular stock, type: [ticker] investor relations analyst coverage into google, and the top result should be a page which lists the analysts covering the stock.

Because it serves as a benchmark for basically every short-term interest rate product, such as LIBOR, Eurodollars, and the bank Prime rate. There is an "overnight rate" but also a "benchmark rate" which go hand in hand but are only indirectly related. The Fed actually doesn't "lower" the...

You just described the business model of banking. In fact, banks do even better - they borrow from checking account holders at 0% and lend at 4% (mortgages) to 15% credit cards. It's been this way for over several hundred years. The Fed Funds rate is only used for overnight liquidity. BTW, the...

Yes, and much cheaper. But the learning curve is steep. No hand-holding.

Oanda doesn't work the way you think it does. Oanda is on the bid and the ask, and your limit orders are simply "market if touched." So you will always cross Oanda's spread. No way around it (but you don't pay a commission). If you want something closer to a "market making" experience, then you...

Try reading some of Euan Sinclair's option books. Volatility Trading is fairly accessible. In fact, Dynamic Hedging is a component of Volatility Arbitrage (which Volatility Trading explains).

What are you trading? You can trade literally everything at Interactive Brokers, with a platform that can be customized and automated (if you know how to code), but there is zero support. ThinkorSwim (TD Ameritrade) is also very powerful, with a lot of support, but commissions (at least on...