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Yes, I definitely would hit the ECN's over any specialists, even with size. This helps one avoid taking it up the ASK. :)

I use TS6. Thanks, m

Hello, I am new to Tradestation. As of right now, I am good at tweaking existing code and modifying from that point. I am still learning as I go. I have a Pairs trading system that I am looking to get turned into code for Tradestation. If anyone can help me out and it seems to work, be my...

www.tickdata.com It costs 60 bucks for a years worth of any day.

Go to www.tickdata.com They are by far the most bang for the buck. You have to spend a minimum of 150 per order, but you get a years worth of tick data for 60 bucks. Good luck.

I'm not sure if it was covered on this thread, but Island has a "Clearly Erroneous" policy on their site that clearly states their definitions of "Erroneous". I rarely bust a trade, but get at least 3 filed against me from the contra party on a daily basis. Island is smart having a...

My favorite time is trading our systems during holiday weeks. Thats when the traders go on vacation and leave the desk to their junior guys who make mistakes left and right. The best part is that they usually try to sweep those mistakes under the carpet so they won't get in trouble.

You don't need Supermontage to be proactive. A firm just needs the feed in their montage for their customers. I just don't like one place to do this and SM is muscling its way in here.

It's still up in the air. They are going through the motions, but have not made a formal decision.

Please, quit pulling my leg on TESTA. IT'S NOT REAL. I traded like 20k shares of testa on thursday and made like 400k. It was for testing purposes. If someone gave you that recommendation, they screwed you big time.

You have got to be kidding right? TESTA, TESTB, TESTC, TESTD, TESTE......TESTV are ALL test stocks that are basically worthless. You must be joking and if so, i'm laughing!!!!

What really ticks me off is that ECN's seem to be afraid of what is happening with SM. They are afraid of loosing business. But the more I think about it, if I were an ECN, I would participate, gather my data and see how it effects my business. The bottom line is that ECN's could put Nasdaq...

Now we just need them to be fungible.

It's a pure monopoly. Personally, I am afraid that I am forced to route my orders to one central place of execution. What if I want to GET OUT in a fast mkt. How dare you reject my orders. Personally, I feel they could be held liable for rejecting my orders. If they are clearly erroneous...

Arca has been WAAYYYY downhill for a long time. They have just hid the problems in my opinion. The first thing they need to do is get rid of Townsend and have the Island people build their systems. Speed and reliability is the key to success.

They have the slowest executions speeds for any ECN. They only beat out the specialists and thats a fact! They range in the 1200 milisecond (1.2 seconds) range on average. That's an eternity for execution speeds, especially in a fast market where you will only get a fill that is real. Come...

This is typical for ARCA. They have very slow execution speeds and go down all the time. I am not trying to bash this ECN, I wish it worked up to par. I can only hope that they adopt the REDI technology with the merger or they are all done.

Exactly!!!! I wasn't kidding.

Flip a coin at 9:20 am . Heads to go LONG and Tails to go SHORT at 9:30 on a stock. Exit at the close and do this consistently for an entire year. Deal with the drawdown when it happens for days and never stray from the plan. There is your best guarantee....:)

VVV said............hehe, so secretive that they don't even exist. no trader richer than soros with his used 6 billion, and he managed an annualized return of 30 sthg% over decades, ie with compounding. where are all the other 1000% billionaires? they don't exist, is the only truthful...