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Guessing your Canadian like myself? Thing to consider now and opening an account is the exchange right now. The U.S dollar has come down a bit but is still quite a bit above its historical average on the loonie. Just something to consider at this time since most brokers have an option to hold...

I'd think Ninja Trader would be a good bet. Never used it myself and not sure what exactly is free with it. The adds show kinetic EOD data for free, think theirs other sources you can put into it to for data. Just be weary of something that was pointed to me in Adam Grimes free course in the...

Just a hunch , but think most paper trading accounts that are around usually require the price to move through your order. They don't actually use the bid/ask but use the last trade price for an activation. So say best bid is 10.00 and in a paper trading account you put a limit at 10.00 to sell...

I'll try to add some advice as to how I dealt with a similar situation( not options but stock). I got caught in a earnings drop not long ago in a company that I believe is crosslisted, AYA( I'm Canadian). Their the owners of a few online gaming softwares like poker stars. Anyways, in my...

Yah. It looks interesting. When I get a good chunk of time I plan on trying the trial. I'm all for anyone to learn coding languages. Their very useful tools. I myself use amibroker and AFL as it's intuitive I find as a non programmer and taking on Python or R is just too much with my schedule...

I have checked this out a few times. Edgewonk.com. Don't trade enough to justify it quite yet. It looks very interesting and I've seen some good reviews. It's not that expensive at 119$ for one time licence. They have some training packages but don't think you need it. Free trial is...

I think your better off researching this topic then asking on a forum. Theirs many ways to measure a system. I'm an amateur in this world and maybe someone will have more to add. I use Amibroker myself and have just recently read a book by Howard Bandy called Quantative Trading Systems. Great...

Could you just forward test it with data. I mean IQFeed that I use is like 70$ a month plus exchange fees for realtime. If you don't mind delayed, 70$ a month. They have a 500 realtime symbol limit but that is just realtime. I use amibroker and it's able to change my realtime watches and adjust...

I fooled around with thinkerswim a few years back before ameritrade bought them and their platform had a mostly full demo. Don't know if it still has a free demo. I can't remember how in depth it went but their was a tool called think back and was kind of like a option backtest/simulator. Not...

That wouldn't work. You have to take market makers as providing a important role. They provide liquidity and in turn take the risk. I think I took it from an interview I heard from futurestrader71 when they asked about how some people feel about day traders. His response in short verse was...

Oh. But I would warn that it wouldn't be easy for myself to do. It can get quite complex for someone like myself with no programming experience. Edit. Tried googling two timeframes one chart and didn't come up with any examples so maybe not supported.

Oh. Well it works fine as a charting package. Afl is just the language used for everything. From building custom indicators to chart time frames. Just google amibroker charts and flip through the images. Just thought I'd throw it out there as you'd be surprised and the licence is cheap and it...

Could try Amibroker. They have a free trial which I think the only limitation is it won't save data. They have a esignal real time plugin so that makes the integration easy. Only issue is I'm not sure of exactly what your doing. But afl so far the only limitations are my imagination.

I'd also recommend thinkorswim paper trader. I remember a few years ago when I was fooling around with what options we're. Think it was called "Thinkback" or something but you could basically go to a date on a chart, put your papertrade in with the historical spreads they had and then just go...

I haven't ever opened up a IB account, only account I've ever opened with is my bank. I would assume IB would ask for photo ID or some sort of proof of identification. I'm assuming you can't just make up a name or age or IB be the go to place to launder cash. Between the government and SEC, they...

Good stuff then. I'd recommend giving chatwithtraders podcast episode 40 and episode 28 a listen. Very interesting for options traders and some info on how to manage risk.

Just be very wary of options if your not familiar, I don't dabble because I only know enough to get myself in trouble. Just a warning sign to me was in your title " looking to short oil" and then your referring to options. Just know what your buying or selling. Understand the difference...

Don't have an answer but was curious as to where you found info on the second part. I researched it myself awhile back and couldn't find anything concrete. I found some articles about the cra trying to fight trading in tfsa. But it's a hard thing to fight I'd think. First off if someone is...

I'm hoping that the 2000$ is a hypothetical number. I'm sure someone has traded with this little but myself I'd be terrified. The ES Mini has a multiplier of 50. So for example, the ES Mini had a high of 2075 and a low of 2030.25 on Dec 31. That's a range of 44.75 multiplied by 50 = 2237.5...

I'm not sure of an answer for you but I see your paper trading. I would not short a stock that is about to get de listed. I'm assuming it's a small cap if it's getting delisted, this is just a recipe for disaster. Look up KBIO recently and see what can happen. This stock was practically...