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Just be careful - depending on the contract, you may get an adjusted or non-adjusted contract. If you're using the latest versions of 8.x, it's best to create your own adjusted. The easiest way to do this is to use their dialog boxes until you get used to the symbol formats - Right mouse...

futurepathtrading - they have their own proprietary platform. -eLindy

I (We) use Photon every day for our fund. I don't have any experience with their training program though. So, questions about the platform I can answer - questions about the training program I can probably find out about but someone else on here probably has better info. -eLindy

Hi all: I was wondering if there's software out there that will take a stream of monthly fund returns and spit out some basic statistics such as Compound Annual Returns, Worst Peak-toValley drawdown, % positive and negative months, sharpe ratio, annualized volatility etc. It can even be a...

Hi: I've searched through all the threads on IB's EFP and have crunched the numbers in my own spreadsheet. In summary, to earn interest using EFPs, you SELL the efp in TWS. (Right?) Now, here's the real question: How does IB handle the expiration? Do you have to close it out yourself...

It shouldn't require an upgrade since it's written to the .net api but, yes, once I purchase a phone with WM6 on it I'll do whatever changes are necessary to make it work (unless I find something that already works). -eLindy

Updated Build from the programmers. This one fixes a keyboard issue. It seems that each smartphone device may have a slightly different set of keyscan codes for the keyboard. So, a keyboard configuration utiltity was built. The side effect of this is that all the hotkeys for navigation is now...

Hi Oscarmayer: Yeah, the blackjack is great - gotta love the screen and the thin form factor. I have that mobile.quote.com site book marked but, unfortunately, the quotes aren't streaming :(. So I ended up using this program to get streaming quotes (or close to it) on the ocasions where I...

Crude, Corn, Sugar, Gold. For additional financials beyond just the indicies you can look at EC, BP, JY and, of course, bonds and notes. -eLindy

Ok, so I have this nice smart phone (the blackjack) and want to be able to view quotes/charts on it when I am out of the office or home. The need is occasional so I can not justify the costs involved in paying for a dedicated charting application like Quotrek and another set of exchange fees...

Yeah, I don't think you have that much to worry about. They just got an infusion of private equity monies as well with the original RJO owners maintaining a minority interest. (I don't remember where I read that article though.) FWIW - we use their web based platform to execute pit trades -...

$11.20. (That's not a mistake - it is an odd amount) -eLindy

Sugar #11. -eLindy

The TS datafeed on GOLD this morning was running way way behind - about 4 full points behind. The same thing was happening on the COMSTOCK feed. CQG Charting, IB's TWS and Futurepath's Photon Trading platforms were in line. So, if you were using TS prices you were most likely entering a...

I would sum up the difference between IB and Tradestatin as thus: - IB offers more products, more markets, more order types and a stabler/faster trading platform than TS. - TS offers a substantially better charting and analysis software product than IB. In other words, IB is more...

The real-time quotes lagged severely or simply crashed the product. It lost workspaces/files. I had to shutdown and restart the product countless times because of various random stability issues. All were reported and supposedly fixed but I didn't like being a beta tester and I didn't re-test...

I looked at TradeDecision a few months ago. It was extremely unstable especially when used with a real-time feed like e-signal. That could be a good reason for not allowing trials. Just my experience of course. Others may have had a better experience. -eLindy

If using the 24 hour session, consider using tick charts intead of time based charts. This helps smooth out many indicators and provide a much different perspective on price action. As with anything else there are shortcomings but I like the tick charts on the 24 hour sessions better than...

Actually, I think the reason that it's hard to attract money is a bit more complicated than not having connections. I looked at the performance and the first thing that caught my eye was the almost 50% drawdown. The second thing that caught my eye is the corresponding "worst month" performance...

I'm looking for cash data (if available) for most of the US commoditiy markets such as sugar, wheat, corn, beans, cocao, cotton, unleaded etc etc. CSI data has cash data on the metals but not for the softs and AGs. Does anyone know where I could obtain this type of data? Daily timeframe would...