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I just read that the options writer picked to be excersiced (after the broker has been assigned) is random.

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UDon'tKnowMe, I guess you just answered my question :-) ... thanks

thanks for your response. My 4mils is just commissions ... with estimated fees (Liquidity, etc) that makes it about 7mils at the worst - 2mils (if provide liquidity). I am looking for something 5mils or less (with worst scenario fees) so I can get out of trades at penny and come out at...

I am new to trading. The lowest I have heard was about 1.5 mils but if you do very high volume. I am not there yet. Other than that, the lowest I have been offered is 4 mils.

$0.75 per 1,000 shares ?? What brokers can give such low commission ? The lowest i heard was $1.50 / 1000 (0.001 per share)

A couple of ways of doing this. I did not use the OrderID. It changes too many times. You really want to keep the pOrderSent pointer on your code. Cancel it when you need to, pOrderSent->Cancel(). You can also use the "Overfill" option in anvil. Basically if you have an order for a...

go retail ... $25k and do not have to deal with license ... 4:1 leverage ...

More likely becasue an order may hop around exchanges and Anvil can assign multiple ids before it is executed in full. I have done this. I'll dig out my code and post it for you later ..

So I guess you want us to feel sorry ? Is that why all our jobs and secrets are being outsourced to the wonderful country of India ? How nice, we can help them out while we destroy our own economy. I have a better idea, since we feel sorry about India why don't we allow them to come and...

I am considering joining "Lightspeed Professional Trading" in NYC with a retail account .... Anyone that has used them (in Madison Ave, NYC) comments will be greatly appreciated...

I know Anvil does. Usually most platforms APIs allow you to extend the GUI for you to create your own windows .... althought I never worked with REDI

I created this developer Anvil thread. You cna start here for a developer .... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111604

Anvil (from Assent) is pretty good for customization. The API is VC++ so you get top performace (if you have good developers) ....

I never thought of it that way. They all have risk managment policies built into their software. They have settings like "Max loss per position", "max loss per share", etc.... they will liquidate positions automatically once the policies are met ....

Here are my thoughts and why I am chossing retail becasuse a few reasons: 1) No series 7 license 2) I have no real experinece trading full-time. As such having 1MM buying power with 20k of my own capital will only eat my capital quicker. 3) I rather take my 25k and go retail. Since I...

I have to say LightSpeed Financial has retail account services with same technology as Prop firms .... including commission and fees ... except the leverage ...

I do not htink so. But you have to disclose you will be using the API in live mode. The may consider you account a "black box" whihc meas kaching$$$ from you ....

check http://www.buyins.net

I think your best bet is to going retail with $25k until you can resolve your conviction/S7 issues. At least you will be trading until then .... good luck