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Are you saying that basically the Fed policy might actually be a little tight now (seen with the lower than expected inflation numbers), and so the yield curve will start to flatten, as the short term (5 year) yield drops in price?

First of all thank you for the reply. As the subject of macroeconomics is new to me, and it is a tough subject, I had trouble understanding your answer. I think you are basically saying that it all is tied to the dollar. However the article I linked (not saying they are right or wrong) seem to...

I read this article today after a friend linked it to me: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-17/were-all-yen-traders-now#comments " The Japanese exchange rate is being influenced by massive distortions with their unprecedented quantitative easing programs. And that’s the rub. The Yen is not...

So Eikon seems to be a good solution, but expensive. What is IFR that you mention? And when you say the full DJ GI feed do you mean some products from here: https://www.dowjones.com/ plus this website https://www.newswire.com/features/distribution ? Edit: For IFR I am guessing you mean the...

Thanks for the detailed reply. How limited is the IB Reuters feed in contrast to Eikon? Also, given I can have live data directly from IB and so only looking for a good news feed, is metastock Xenith worth it?

I'm not aware of this, can you give me a link?

Really? Well I was thinking about trying it. I think I can check a free trial and see how bad things are.

It's possible if I thought that it would be beneficial. Which product/platform do you have in mind?

This might be the wrong question, but even if it is I feel like people will share some knowledge here: I would like to have a trading platform that will have news as well as fundamental data about companies, macro economy news (interest rate decisions etc) etc all aggregated, instead of me...

Ok, but that's also what indicators like RSI, MACD do and which in my opinion are of little use (they just apply a mathematical operation to past data). Quant should probably be defined as something that uses more advanced math and statistics to achieve an edge I think.

I know what it is, but there are a hundred definitions as you say, so I wasn't sure what you meant. It could have been a system based on price/volume etc, or company data for stocks.

Without revealing anything about your strategy, what do you mean by quantitative trading, and what is the difference between just programming a system based on the classic TA indicators? Do you use machine learning?

If the S&P 500 is a weighted average of the top 500 companies, what happens if large hedge funds or investors buy or sell this particular contract in big volume? They will definitely move its price, so then how can the contract be said to follow these 500 companies?

DAW? I don't know what that is, I'm trading directly with them. I also don't trade EUREX, just CME. I do think there is an option for including EUREX though. Their bank is BMO Harris I think. I believe customer's cash should be as safe as in any other FCM I assume. Do you trade with them?

I think that's the same model Dorman have.

Dorman is also in that pdf, with smaller net capital than the average as you pointed out. Of course there are some colossal banks in the list, but still makes me a little concerned.

Yeah that's the thing, I'm not sure if FCM's generally operate like that, or if they are an exception.

Dorman are an FCM, but also operate as a broker. And my account is with them.

Good afternoon, I have deposited my money with Dorman Trading https://www.dormantrading.com/ (so them acting as the broker, not as the clearing house) and have traded futures with them for a couple of months. I took a look at their financial statement...

Would you like to give an example?