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    Most popular trading forums ?

    www.nuclearphynance.com www.wilmott.com (already mentioned, good advanced site)
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    Ran Poor Service

    which squawk service is Tommi, mentioned earlier in the thread?
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    Daytrading at Prop Firm income?

    Cant imagine you'll get many real prop traders divulging their income on a board like this, but as an example of whats possible:
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    Best Voip phone system

    it is when you compare it with no monthly subscription and free national and international calls with no connection fees either. with SkypePro you pay the Skype monthly fee, plus you pay a connection fee per call, and you only get "free" calls within your own country, not overseas which you...
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    Best Voip phone system

    Skype is extremely good for PC2PC calls, but they are extremely expensive when it comes to calling landlines or mobiles. Check out the betamax VoIP platform, they have numerous clones, but the one I use most is - www.justvoip.com which is free to call US landlines & mobiles, free to most...
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    IB shortable shares - list in a text file?

    Is the IB list of shortable shares available anywhere as a text file? I see it on their site as a HTML list, but couldnt find anything of the same in plain text I know TS publish their list daily on the website in a .txt file, do IB do anything similar? I need to be able to view all the...
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    I need a new computer to run Tradestation

    thats a sh!tload of processes hogging your CPU. you must have a lot of progs running in the background or in systray that are taking resources up. Do you have a ton of icons showing in your systray next your PC time on the toolbar? if so, these are all running in the background and using...
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    Pictures of your trading stations

    whats the picture quality like on the LFTV Spectre? i was quite interested in that but I heard the pic resolution wasnt really up to much
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    Multicharts User Thread

    what would be a great idea for MultiCharts to implement, would be a seperate features forum on the TSS site in which users can suggest new features or fixes, and other users can vote on whether it would be useful or not. I know TradeStation do this, and it would probably be helpful for you to...
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    Multicharts User Thread

    good luck with TradeStation. They may have a huge team and resources, but try getting through to someone when you really need them - any cursory search of the TS forums will reveal that my prior experience of being on hold for 3 hrs+ while their system is down and your losing money on open...
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    How to invest a billion in futures?

    presumably they are talking about a billion in face-value futures. so a billion would be, for example, in the S&P emini futures, 12,800 contracts, or 10,000 contracts in the 30yr Bonds. whilst this is pretty hefty size, its not unworkably large - on the 30yr bonds I'm seeing 18,000...
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    EBay's Skype Bubble Bursts

    http://checkout.google.com is stepping up to Paypal
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    NYMEX/ICE interexchange spread margins...

    why would you want to trade CL vs BC inter-exchange, when you can trade WTI and BC on both exchanges. Nymex and ICE quote both markets. I believe ICE also quote a WTI/BC spread differential market also.
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    Back-ups vs Smart-UPS

    two different types of technology. Back-UPS is whats called an "offline" UPS - it means that its not doing anything much until theres a powercut - when the mains fails, a relay closes, the rectifier based battery charger reverses to become a basic squarewave inverter that creates a...
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    Prop Firms pay per trade results or set salary?

    depends on the shop. I know some guys who get a basic salary and a cut of the profits. But most futures prop firms you only get a cut of the profits. Those who are paid a salary get a lower share of the profits from what I gather. Biggest advantage is the tiny commissions and the...
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    block trading...how is it?

    depends on the context: "block trading" in futures is an institutional order that is transacted off the book - ie: not through the market, but rather conducted directly between the two participants who then notify the exchange of the block trade. I dont know if a block trade in that context...
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    ER2 no longer on IB

    IB give access to ICE traded markets, so surely its doubtful IB would pull the whole contract... ER2 is gonna be on CME or ICE via IB surely - either or both? anyway, ER2 trades on CME in parallel with ICE till Sep 08, it really wouldn't make any sense for IB to pull ER2 when they could offer...
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    Can one negociate to better rates @ IB

    so you need to investigate the different options for seat lease or purchase if your clipping enough size/spins to make the exchange fee's significantly more competitive
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    Prop Shops in Europe?

    its a Limited by Guarantee incorporation run for the benefit of the members. To trade there you have to become a member of the firm. The benefits of membership are that you get to trade at the lowest rates I've come across in the industry. Example: Eurex financial futures you would pay 0.24c...
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