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I saw their Stockbox program in action a year or so ago when a friend bought it to try it for a month....ultimately he gave it up to learn his own method but he said it helped keep him honest on his entries and exits. In my case last Dec I was part of a joint special deal with DTI and TTM for...

"Efficiency" is dependent on many things - your trading style, market action, trading plans, and so forth. What's "efficient" for you may not be "efficient" for Trader X, Y, or Z -- or vice-versa. As a result, I daresay the "efficiency" of your trades (ie the number of round trips) is based...

No problem trading eminis at OEC - been there since March and have no problems. Great platform, great fills, no worries for me.

Not knowing crossover, I can't offer more helpful advice,but if you're NOT running a "complete" Windows emulator system on your Mac, you may run into problems. That's just my initial thoughts as a geek. Their platform just works well for me on my Mac. Fills and data at OEC? No problems...

OEC works fine on the Mac. Since February, I've been running OEC Trader in an "emulated" XP image [1] under VMWare on my iMac 24" -- no problems to report whatsoever. I let my XP 'system' exist in 1.5GB of RAM and its charts, DOM, and data are all fine for my daytrading activities. Not sure...

First off, while I make no claims of being an expert or all-knowing or infallable, I am not a newbie nor wish to get drawn into a typical pissing match here at ET. And so I won't. I merely pointed out that at times I would see odd fill prices in my DOM - prices that do NOT include, nor...

What do you mean? You get fills on ticks. IE get filled on the ES at 985.25 or 985.50, etc. I have been filled at odd amounts at times inside the bid/ask, though. IE, 985.31 or something weird like that. Not sure why that is, but I'll take it.

I use Open E-Cry. No problems whatsoever and highly recommend them.

Their live platform is, as far as I can tell, fine. Been live for a few weeks (finally!) and am impressed with the data and order fills. A slip here or there (probably due to operator error on the DOM) but nothing I'd worry about as a retail trader.

I second OPENECRY. Great platform, great rates, and few if any problems to report.

Thanks much! I tried that, importing an Easylanguage thing, and I got errors galore when it went to compile. After the 3rd or 4th attempt, I gave up and posted here. I wish OEC would allow an ELD import - gods know there are tons of stuff (indicators and strategies) precompiled already...

Here's what I think is the EL code. Source via Google Cache and some add'l background on the indicator: http://tinyurl.com/6dcay3 Inputs: Price((H+L)/2), Len(10); Vars: MaxH(0), MinL(0), Fish(0); MaxH = Highest(Price, Len); MinL =...

I have what I *think* is the EL code, will dig it up and post back here in a bit. Thx!

If anyone's interested/willing/able, a similar request for OEC Trader --- how about the Fisher Transform? Not being a coder at all makes developing stuff even more challenging, and when I look @ Easylanguage all I see is Greek. Thanks in advance for any help! *puppydog eyes*

Only time I 'freestyle' these days is in the afternoon session during the final hour --- indicators are useless moreso then, s/r can disappear in a flash, and you have to (at least I think) trade exclusively on price action and direction. Might be less precise, but if you wait for a ton of...

Yes, I own the stock already, and would be looking to add to it at some point, but not doign so in this market sans 'protection.' But to your point, being long a vertical spread (ie, w/o owning the underlying) doesn't grant you the right to dividends, though.

Does anyone here have comments/thoughts on the idea of using a collar (short call/long put on top of holding the underlying) as a relatively safe way of parking money to collect dividends? IE -- (1) Buy 100 XYZ at $15. (2) Sell a 6-mo $17.50 call, write the $12.50 put for a credit or...

Yeah OEC is quirky with its indicator development environment, unfortunately. The custom indicator stuff there seems a bit kludgy IMHO.

You may be buying higher IV than you are selling on the spread but you're hedged if there is a huge and lasting downside move to AAPL. Might be safer, but not sure of the r/r value there. As to the short put, if you don't mind owning the AAPL shares if it should drop to (and stays below) 85...