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They are not not traders. These are a bunch of PhDs who priced out derivatives, mortgage back securities and other "exotics" and the sales people who pushed these packages to other institutions.

Many of the platforms such as MarketDelta and SierraChart offer Bid/Offer in their bars as part of their native features.

We have made a bunch of articles and videos that would help you navigate through the TradingView platform. Here is the main one: http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/tradingview-charting-guide/ Below this article you will find in the "related article" 4 more article that will help...

I can give you a general guideline that when you seek a system, methods, CTA, etc. Make sure you look at the frequency of trading during the day, week, and month. I have found that methods that do not trade frequently would tend to outperform those that have lots of trading, at least those that...

This is related to equities, and as such I will let the equities guys answer, however, the data feed we use for Level 2 DOM Futures is directly from the CME/Eurex/etc. and it does represent exchange numbers.

We have created this article for those who wish to learn a bit about order flow, Market Profile (Volume Profile), etc. http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/order-flow-fundamentals/ If you have any questions, let us know.

The net will always find new niches to promote things, but over time the surfers develop a "blind spot" and ignore it. People learn really fast when they see the same thing over and over again.

I will PM you.

I appreciate the consideration. Someone of the same magnitude in terms of stability would be ADMIS. Nevertheless, I appreciate which ever way you decide and wish you the best with your trading. Thank you for keeping an open mind.

recent blog post we did addresses this. I hope you guys find it useful: http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/stop-loss-orders-based-market-context/

For many institutions out there, the Futures business in just to satisfy a small need and they price it outside the norm. Yes, I agree with @Maverick74 that sometimes the bigger institutions charge a bit more do to their size and many are ok with it, nevertheless, I find that you can get...

We wrote these two articles and I hope this would help you guys with the support and resistance research. http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/why-support-and-resistance-is-not-exact-science/ http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/draw-trade-support-resistance/

I understand. I chose to reply to you based on this concern and giving you the option to stay.

I believe that this relates to the current IB you have, but you have the right to switch to a different IB that clears WB as well. We clear via AMP,TradeStation,ADM, Gain and WedBush. I know R Trader, Rithmic and have worked with the Rithmic crew for many years. This is in terms of...

@Scataphagos If you want to stay at Wedbush, I can help. We clear through them and can keep your account there with the current set up you have. PM or call me if interested.

We good experience with Rithmic and SierraChart, both in terms of market data and execution.

I would not say this is a rule. There are customers with consistent margins calls and this is where the risk department may raise margins. Other instances is where the customers may run large risk not always visible by margins, like in Options selling. However, I do find most FCM do enforce...

Margins are determined by the exchanges. Brokers enforce it. We don't make our own rules. Day trading are determined by the FCMs.

I suggest to avoid funds when it comes to managed futures. I would recommend to choose individual CTAs based on their performance, risk, and method. "funds" have many hidden fees that have nothing to do with performance. Go through the individual disclosure documents as they should disclose the...

We publish on our blog educational articles and we have covered this topic beofre. I hope this helps you. http://www.optimusfutures.com/tradeblog/archives/use-bollinger-bands-day-trading/ We made the illustration over MultiCharts.Net which we supply for free.