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    Proper order entry?

    If you trade both markets then you would use 2 different order entry systems. electronic: streaming quotes, point&click (IB TWS, J-Trader, ...) pit: no streaming quotes, fiddling around (RefcoLive, LeoWeb, ...) For this pit trading stuff I try to find myself some reasonable order entry...
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    Proper order entry?

    They have nice manual for FX Online Trading www.alaronfx.com/userguide/index.htm
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    Proper order entry?

    If broker offers online trading then he must supply a manual for his order entry system. If broker is unable or unwilling to do so then leave. www.interactivebrokers.com/html/webhelp/webhelp.htm
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    IB Improvements (Part 3)

    Only useful if you have multicurrency account. Add Datasubscription for IDEAL (at no cost). Add ticker line for what you want: Euro, Yen, ... Now buy the ASK and sell the BID !
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    IB Downtime

    IB TWS Bulletin Board - Thursday March 21, 2002 *** 15:59:04 To GLOBEX users Thu Mar 21 15:59:04 2002 EST Please be advised: GLOBEX is again available for trading. *** 15:03:10 To GLOBEX users Thu Mar 21 15:03:10 2002 EST Please be advised: GLOBEX is not available for trading...
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    IB Front Ends?

    Patsystems has several APIs available, these are: The Trading API for producing end-user trading applications.This is available to clients who own a patsystems Trading Platform and to their customers. The SARA API for uploading risk management information from Back Office systems and for...
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    Tradestation

    I have another link where you can find more links (and so on ...) www.tradestationzone.com
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    IB Quote Problems

    Globex Quotes from IB are usually the fastest I can get, sometimes highpriced CQG lags, but most of the time they are in sync. Maybe there are problems with stock quotes, I do not trade them. There have been problems with CME Globex Quotes for certain days. Most of them were days of record...
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    Gold trading on NYMEX

    There are 2 webbased systems you can look at, maybe other brokers use them with a different name (Lind-Connect = RefcoExpress, for instance) www.refcolive.com www.refcoexpress.com The second can be used as demo. 1) Go to Trading Login 2) Then hit Interactive Demo
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    Tradestation 6 down again???

    No problem at all with CME E-Mini Quotes and Nasdaq Quotes. What do you mean by "down again" ? Most of the time it´s running fine.
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    free daytrading ebooks

    You better do NOT download this stuff. IMHO scanning for virus does not help in this case ! www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=4525
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    Virus Problems

    Yes, that´s the point. It does not contain any code to reproduce itself. It´s just a program that connects to some server in the internet for some purpose that we do not know. The program code will look to any virus scanner not much different as anything like ICQ, mIRC, Real Player, XY...
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    Virus Problems

    The URL was something like http://blahblahebook.tripod.com (don´t want to reproduce it) The filename is "trader.exe" and if you run a viruscheck you might not find anything at all (don´t know why) BUT: They postet the stupid link to really a lot of boards and I heard from several people...
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    Virus Problems

    Must be file "trader.exe" that you downloaded from a tripod.com location. A have it on my desktop and just looked at it´s "properties" (windows context menu, right mouse click). It claims to be a "MMB Runtime" from www.mediachance.com They actually have a tool called "Multimedia Builder (MMB)"...
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    free daytrading ebooks

    Better check this *.exe file before you run it !
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    emini trading

    Hi Craig, I had a look at your J-Trader Demo V2.8.2.0 D You once posted that you recommend to use Stop Limit Orders (instead of Stop Orders) and that they will be held at Globex (instead of J-Trader server). How can you be sure that they are really held at Globex ? Is there any written...
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    Recfo Live ??

    I know what you mean, but Lind Connect comes as www.refcoexpress.com 1) Go to Trading Login 2) Then hit Interactive Demo Funny, isn´t it ?
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    free daytrading ebooks

    Now they crashed Tripod with their e-book. :(
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    Tradestation

    Well, I think he did use this workaround, because there is no easy way to send orders from Tradestation to the outside world. You will have to write your own DLL as an interface between "Tradestation DLL Functions" and IB ActiveX/Sockets API. There is software (DLL) available to do the same...
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