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Which laptop line are you looking at? The Precision line still offers XP Pro installed with a Vista cd in the box if/when you decide to upgrade.

Believe it or not, it is not uncommon for a "full service" brokerage (ie one that provides guidance) to charge more for electronic markets. One broker I looked at: "Globex orders are $5 per side in addition to regular commission rates"

I did find it curious that all of the reviews were about 1 page, with a couple sentences of positives, and then the rest of the page listing everything that was wrong with the platform. And then came the TradersStudio review, which is 25+ pages of positives with almost no negatives...

IB only charges the carrying fee if you are unbundled, right?

I think these rules are great as far as general guildlines, although some are so vague to be almost meaningless. And can anyone interpret #7 (Never let a profit turn into a loss)? Taken literally, this means as soon as a trade moves 1 tick in your favor you move your stop to breakeven...

Because customer service is practically non-existant. Sorry, a joke. I found brokerage customer service to be about average, inline with what you would expect given the commissions you are paying. Software customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Very long wait times, lack of...

You probably made a typo, but it is just the opposite, I think they are all physically settled except for those two.

I couldn't help myself, had some time to waste. From the 2004 Annual report: "Management intends to review various assets for potential acquisition. Specifically, we intend to pursue to potential acquisition of used car sales assets owned by PAACO Automotive Group L.P. On November 12...

I didn't do a exhaustive study, but I only counted 10 days since IPO where the Close was lower than the previous day's Low. And half those are days where the previous day only printed at one price.

Hell, I paper trade backtest with a look ahead bias all the time and I still have down weeks. :mad: :D

I think you are leaving off one important factor. You have considered things that effect expectancy, but one other factor affects profit. Profit = N*Expectancy, where N is number of trades. If you can increase the frequency of trading while keeping expectancy the same, you will generate...

Certainly not me. But the poll question is what it is: Is it possible to "consistently" make 1% a day with no down weeks. That's a 250% return per year (the word consistent implies over several years), without having a single down week. I personally think it is absurd, but I've...

Can you say why you are thinking of going prop? You say you swing trade, are you looking to move to daytrading?

Obviously a great return, but we have no idea if it meets the criteria established in the poll. Was the return "consistent" on a daily basis, and did Seykota never have a down week during this 16 year period?

I would consider this straight forward. I think an experienced TS & EL person could do a rough cut of this in 15 minutes. Of course, it will take you a much longer time to get your feet wet. Unfortunately I can't give you a good estimate - when I first used EL, I already had extensive...

So there is a contract more volitale than NG. Who would have known. Thanks for that list, very good information. This sounds like an interesting journal.

I will just throw in my two cents. Get the futures data as soon as possible. I have seen many systems that are wildly profitable, holy grail type stuff when applied to an index, and then the same exact system is lousy or even flat out unprofitable when applied to the future. Shorter term...

When you say CSV do you mean general CSV support where the user will define what fields are what in their data, or a fixed field layout that you will define?

Personally, I always buy the most active and roll as needed. Yes, you will pay transaction costs for the rollover, but I've found that the execution risk of trading furthur out contracts to be much greater than rollover costs. I do have a couple of exceptions: 1) If I am establishing a...

They are counted after 6 months the same way they are counted the first six months - they are asked. The unemployment number is from surveys done on a sampling of households and then extrapolated. By the way, this is very different from the payroll numbers (ie jobs created/lost) which are...