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I tried OQ just now and can't even get it to connect to TWS. Unreal. What is the deal with all these flaky products?

Does OQ do tick based backtesting (and trading)? If so that might be the one. Thanks!

I have pretty much driven myself close to insanity with these various automated backtesting and trading systems. Everything from NinjaTrader, to RightEdge, to whatever. None of them have built in debugging. Does that strike you as basically insane? I am having to recompile, put print...

How is it more primative? At the language level C# offers full multi threading, and a much more performance runtime JITing compared to EL, which I believe is interpreted at runtime, no? Maybe NT is more primative at the app level, but in terms of building robust systems, I would go with C#...

Are you saying you execute through IB and IB is the one having problems? You are not clear about that. Since when has IB had anything but a very excellent execution platform? I'm asking seriously because I use them.

What does getting "d/c" mean? Also what kind of volume are you doing? Are you using it for high frequency trades? Thanks for your feedback.

Ok I called HK. Usually the US number will direct you to the HK number, but this time it didn't, which implied to me that everyone was closed. In any case, that was scary, I am using BracketTrader, and it somehow got out of synch with TWS, and left me totaly confused. Since I cannot make...

I can't get a hold of IB heldesk! I have an open position that I can not close from within TWS. WTF? Any advice? They claim all numbers are shut down now for support? What is that?

Will it have any effect whatsoever? I should think in the grand scheme it should not, however who can account for human psychology? And LEH is not the only problem obviously. So will the recent reversal in favor of the EUR gain more steam this week?

Thanks for the tip. Is anyone trading live with this? As much as I'd like to try it out, I am a bit afraid of open source trading tools since there is nobody on the other end to hear me b*tch and moan as a customer when things go wrong, and they always do. Also, will this support ZenFire and...

Well yes, you need to account for what affect you'll have on the market, however there are heuristics that one can use to approximate that. And of course that impact largely depends on the size of the order, the liquidity of the market, the depth of the market (presuming you're not in a...

Sorry I guess I am not following what you mean here.

Thanks for your time and wisdom here. Very interesting. Just curious, when you watch the Level II and T&S, you're speak of the FX Future contract or the FX Options on Futures data? Or both? Just curious since you said you trade mostly FX Futures Options on CME. Clearly as you said the...

I am currently working with NinjaTrader, but I find that it has no real good story when trying to work with tick data. NinjaTrader, like most platforms, is concerned more with chart based systems, where the end of each bar the system is executed. I am looking to backtest and trade off of tick...

Seems their ICE offerings are limited to a small subset of contracts, or did I misread their (IB's) web page?

OK so it doesn't have the best platform? Which is it? That's the problem with getting a consensus around here, lol. Everyone has quite a different set of experiences.

Hmm, seems IB doesn't let you trade the ICE, or am I mistaken. Any good reliable brokers for trading the ICE?

Thanks for your detailed answer. I have a few questions however. You say that there are no spreads on CME products? I don't understand that. So to buy and sell a EURUSD future (6E) the bid/ask is the same? I'm not following you. I trade spot FX on IB's IDEALPRO, so I am not trading against...

I take it that's a no?

Wondering, I never see anyone talk about ICE on these boards... Is there a place people go to discuss this exchange?