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My office installed 7.4.3 this week. I've been banging on it for three days and like it alot. I think they earmarked this for globex traders...there's a new order entry bar that gbex traders tend to use. it's a cool little entry bar and lets me move around and get orders in even faster...i've...

volatility is the covered call writers best friend and VIX is at a 52 week high. Premium is rich so covered call strategies are bringing in good $$$. that doesn't mean they can keep pace with the market, however.

I agree with Rodney...you're fooling yourself and wasting your time trying to run real time spreadsheets that are huge. even if you have RTD (which is a must) you'll revert back to DDE speed when perform a gross amount of calculations

why in the world would you need more than five levels? i've traded bonds / notes / euros for 15 years and there is absolutely no significant information that far outside of the indside market. I've filled paper in the pit and didnt care what was there outside three (except maybe stops, but...

I've been building some auto order entry systems in excel for the past few months. i use tt's demo platform and it works just fine. you're not likely to develop a 'scalping' methodology this way, but for swing trading (which is what I do), it works great...

I''ve poked around with xstudy 1.4 and its pretty sweet. if you trade fixed income, you'll love the ability to chart yields. i got that going this morning and love it.. i looks like tt is putting more into analytics...i pulled this from the notes they issued on the 1.4 release...i like the...

try asking this on the tt user forum. they get back pretty quick with good direction. http://forums.tradingtechnologies.com/

the dme sour crude contract is a much more accurate gauge of oil prices than nymex cl. the dme contract will be a great contract in time....i watched the open on my xtrader before going home last night. some guys i trade with plan to spread this vs. CL and WTI

zacks.com has some good stuff...they've limited the amount of things you can get for free, but when you register, you can still get worthwhile info...

There are alot of ways to spread Euros. The GE contract is the ultimate spreading contract alive. I've worked this market for years and with the low margin charged, you can do real well. Look at spreading strips to sprips, packs to packs and legging cal spreads while leaning on the implied...

What's the 'Zacks Trading Method? I'm familiar with Zacks Rank and Zacks Indicator. They are very good and predicting stocks on the upside for the next 3 months or so...even better for the immidiate 3 days on changes. Not so good at calling shorts, however.

I haven't found many vendors with the ability to backtest futures strategies. I'm particularly intested in backtesting scalping strategies. Can anyone recommend some software to do this? I've used tradestation...but along time ago, and I've poked around the CQG backtesting but didn't go...

i gave a bad link (typo). try this one. http://www.zackspro.com/index.asp

try www.zackpro.com they have industry anaysis software that will rank stocks with a sector or industry by various metrics including price performance.

acerbits...i is your fcm a new xstudy user or something? we've been running xstudy at my group since it came out and have months worth of data...life of contract....i've got some ge contracts with daily data going back a long ways.... talk to whomever you connect through 'cuase that ain't right

what else does redi have? do they have futures spreading functionality and automated hedging?

nitro and a few others have summed this up nicely. a quant can simply quantify his or her expectations of a market expectations. Quants develop and employ predictive strategies. these strategies are generally heavily influenced by statistics and SOME quants fit the stereotype of...

I'm pretty sure you can do that with their autotrader. a guy in my office is showing me around autotrader and i don't see any real limitations. the tt forum is a good source of info... http://forums.tradingtechnologies.com/

Has anyone compiled a list of API and automatic (black box) trading functionality? I'm starting to build some auto trading apps and would like to see what's already on the market. Who has good API tools for futures and who has good autotrading capablities in futures?

I don't watch them much so i don't know about all the time. I have an ICE GW on my X_TRADER Bids were tight when I went in the other day and execution was flawless. I'm gonna look more at it this week. I'm trying to work up a sugar, corn, ethanol spread and will let you know what it looks...