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For Futures trading: (1) CTS T4 platform for execution, including DOM and order book (2) DTN ProphetX for charting.

At $20 per spin, it's a broker's dream. Another option seller who blew up is Ace Investments out of Virginia. Pretty much any CTA promoted heavily by VISION FINANCIAL is going to be dog sh*t.

You should see the performance of FCI - Financial Commodity Investments. One of my associates [had] an account there, and lost approximately 48% in August. Everything lost. Short calls on Swissie, T-Bonds, Gold; puts on Crude oil. ...and they still added insult to injury, collecting...

If you took all that crap off your screen, and just watched a daily chart, going back two years, in candlestick mode, with nothing else, you'd probably have a better feel for price action. Don't you think silver looks heavy, just like gold? $33 support arriving sometime soon? Great...

In the Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce considered a Fanatic to be one who "Cannot change his mind, and won't change the conversation." I hope JP Morgan takes your rounds down to $20 and you become enraged! >:-)

LOL Thanks for bringing me back to a THomas Pynchon moment. Gravity's Rainbow was not my favorite book, however. Only Dr. Ron Paul will be able to turn this mess around...and a dem/repub congress will fight him every step of the way.

ES STOPS are generally executed as a LIMIT order 3.00 points from your trigger price. So, if you are working an order to SELL 5 ES-U1 @ 1169.75 STOP, should your order be triggered the software will SELL 5 ES-U1 @ 1166.75, which will hopefully fill at 1169.75, your stop price. Therefore...

OP, you're ignorant on this matter. That's not a big fluctuation. For all you know, some of their institutional clients have been long stock index futures, and taking a hit. What you should pay attention to, in my view, is the operating capital and excess capital. I would view...

YOU'RE LAUGHABLY WRONG AND DON'T UNDERSTAND TRADING. If they increased the tick size from 0.25 points to 0.10 slippage would SOAR. Right now the ES is great; generally very little slippage. Your idea is terrible. DO us a favor...instead of ripping on CME, which puts out the only...

Dorman Trading offers the T4 platform. I've used it since I launched our CTA (approx. 13-months ago). It's genuinely exceeded my expectations in terms of stability, ease of execution and aesthetics. Advantage also offers this platform, but I prefer Dorman because they've always treated me...

Cunningham's T4 platform is superb. Personally, my favorite DOM of all, including TT, CQG, OEC and NINJA. You should check it out if looking for alternative. Some brokers offer it white-labeled.

Another great reason for shrewd investors to favor Commodity Trading Advisors, who handle discretionary, segregated accounts...in the client's name, and with the client's preferred broker. =)

While I don't necessarily *like* HFTs, it's important to remember that NOBODY is under any obligation to provide bids and offers. They add liquidity by choice, and I don't hate on them for being quick. I would disagree that HFT is killing the e-mini, however. Right now, Thursday @...

My understanding is you that a client's money management decisions should not change a CTA's performance results. In other words, if the program size is $100,000 USD, whether a client actually deposits $50,000 or $35,000 or $96,000, the performance calculations are based on the account being...

OP, I sent you a private message. Those looking to hedge against DOWNSIDE exposure in the S&P 500 may consider placing funds in a trading program that trades stock index futures with a bearish directional bias. One positive element is that this allocation requires no additional work on...

-1. Successful specs are 'contrary in the extreme'

The building itself is perhaps nothing fantastic, but I've always liked working there. It's an historic art-deco building and part of the appeal is that it IS the Chicago Board of Trade. Sorry to see it's being sold, but I don't think this will sway firms from leasing office space in either...

+1 This is correct.

OP-- Larry LEVIN made most of his money ARBING the big SP with the EMINI; a strategy that is very difficult today to execute. Mostly, it seems, he makes money by selling noobs trader education which costs anywhere from $500 - $5,000. No, I'm not kidding. To his credit, I like his...

::Bump:: Don't any of you guys have thoughts/opinions on this issue? Does nobody else notice?