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    CQG Charges for delayed data

    I agree that pricing is on the high end for CQG, BUT.... If you want a stable platform, with high quality / long term history and good customer service.... you do not have much choice. (And they know that) Of course I'm biased as a CQG user, but I've used several other sources before I...
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    European electronic contracts?

    This depends on your style... DAX is NQ on steroids.. :D I suggest starting with other contracts Eurostoxx , Bund, Schatz, Euribor
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    What is new S&P mini symbol?

    Sorry if this is too rude.... What the f*ck are you doing trading??? (Just trying to protect you here) ES is the symbol for the future... and as you may know, futures have an expiration month. The one you used was june06 (M6) There are 4 major expiration months: (For ES on CME / Globex)...
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    Best Historical EOD Data for US Markets

    Best.... CSI - www.csidata.com But it's not the cheapest around. You get what you pay for though, and I think data is a very important part of your system. See here: http://www.csidata.com/csi/reviews/reprintsep99.html (Old but still valid imo)
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    InterMarket + Multiple Time-Frame Analysis

    Multiple time frame: Fibonaccitrader I used it when I was trading retail, now I don;t use it anymore (only cqg at the firm I trade) In case you interested, I will sell my software (latest version, original, incl hardware key etc.) since I don;t use it anymore. Price 50% + s&h...
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    Charting / Quotes

    If you're looking for daily data only, try CSI (www.csidata.com) absolutely the best (but not the cheapest) I used them in the past. Very reliable
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    Spain - Malaga region - Marbella

    Marbella is actually nice (even for families), the place that people are talking about is Puerto Banus (part of Marbella) which is well known as party area :D I suggest you also have a look at Sotogrande. Lot of Germans, English and other nationalities there. Nice place to live and good...
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    News algorithms?

    Any articles on this?
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    Payout questions

    Only apply splits to withdrawals from your account.
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    Because I have execution software that I use at my firm, I want to use the datafeed from my software, and than execute.
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    Let me try to make something clear here. What I'm going to do is automate (autotrade) my strategie. I do NOT need any backtesting facilities, and my strategies only uses current price/volume action (no indicators etc.) I would not even dream about develloping a complete backtesting...
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    For some reason I prefer going with Microsoft Software because I think MS will stay the OS in the future. Obviously MS languages will keep working under this environment. Hence my choice for Visual Studio Talking about costs: At the moment Microsoft offers free versions of the Visual...
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    Thanks for all the replies so far. I'm biased towards C# (despite some background in VB) so I'm looking to go with that. Especially the fact that C# started as an OO programming language while VB 'grew' into this makes me think that C# will be the better choice. At the moment I'm going...
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    Well, I wanna make sure that if I put in the effort, I will be able to use it for some time. Off course I will be adding features / strategies later on. So in that case it may be worth the effort going with C# ?? Especially since this is a language that was 'born' as it is, while visual...
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    So what do you think would be the best language to learn in my situation?
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    So I guess my choices have been narrowed down to C# and VB What are the differences between the two languages? (Learning curve / speed / robustness / lifetime) Thanks for the replies so far
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    Which language to use (Novice Programmer)

    Hi, I'm looking to automate part of my trading. This will only be very basic stuff to start with, and I will be monitoring it while I'm trading manually. I used to do some programming in visual basic, though this was before .Net. Since Microsoft now offers the complete visual studio...
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    Futures spreads/Pair trading

    Charting: CQG Execution: Ecco (alternative X-Trader) in combination with the autospreader
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    Need Quote software that can handle lots of DDE links

    Cash, This doesn;t work.... Actually the cells that are updated are in another sheet , so the cells changing in this sheet are references itself, but Excel doesn;t trigger a worksheet_change event
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