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You want the platform to allow your strategies to track individual orders in the market, see partial executions, cancel open orders. Ideally, you want all this mechanics to work in backtests... including partial executions. I looked at AmiBroker and Multicharts a couple of years ago. So, feel...

Yes, and McKeever was there.

mcgene4xpro, given your interest in 100-millisecond bars expresses in a different thread, it's quite interesting that you narrowed the platform short-list to the 2 platforms with the most concise language but the least tools for handling orders and executions at a low level. I can't comment...

As Eight and other have pointed out, the problem is most "retail" trading platforms and data feeds don't support millisecond precision. The possible solutions: 1) Use 1-tick bars 2) Configure the platform to run your trading strategy on timer (say, every 100 ms) or on arrival of every tick.

Interesting effort! I tried the gateway out of interest only and my iprssion was its memory use was in teh range of 30mb... which is very good compared to TWS. Maybe the memory use grows a lot when one streams quotes or does lots of trades.... IBcontroller here is an Amibroker autotrading...

In fact, creating money from thin air is excatly what the banking system is allowed and supposed to do. You put $100 on a bank account. The bank leaves a regulatory sum in reserve (say, for simplicity, 20%) and lands $80. The $80 is deposited in a bank which again lands $80-20% = 64% and so on...

I'm sure you are well aware of call centers outsourced to foreign companies. Why can't forex brokerage be outsourced the same way?

Here is a post on this forum about TWS freezing in the last few days. The OP is doing something extreme (for TWS capacity) though.

100 lines of quotes is likely stretching TWS quite hard. Using an alternative source of data like eSignal may be a better option. Good luck!

You are welcome! The idea regarding laptop is good. Perhaps you could use your "live" TWS for sending oders (and, maybe, feeding data in Excel) only... and use, say, a papertrading account for charts, T&S etc...

Isn't a stop order just a conditional market or limit order?

1) Most short sellers buy the stock back. If you looks at the volume of shortselling, very few if any expect the company whose shares they sell to run into banklruptcy . 2) Those who ran their short positions into bankruptcy, nationalisation etc are in fact quite unfortunate. They will be...

If TWS froze in the sense it had you had to kill and restart it.... then it's either because your computer ran short on memory (maybe you have only 2 GB and use the same computer for web-browsing etc) or because you have been running TWS with charts open for a long time without restarting...

Oops, zdreg was first to post regarding equivalence of forward and short sale....

This is not true! Think of the nature of short-selling... Short-selling is selling an asset the seller doesn't own in expectation to aquire the asset at alter point. So, short-selling in essence is the same as selling a future or a forward. (Whether a 3rd party who lends the asset is involved...

Splitter cable is what it says. From the view point of the computer it's just one monitor because the computer has only 1 VGA port. DualHead2Go is great but it's somewhat more expensive than a usb-to-vga adapter and it's must to run testing tool from matrox before buyinbg the device. Beware...

It's not superior level of service that is the unique selling point here.

`The chairman of the Police Federation, which represents thousands of rank-and-file officers, warned yesterday of mass 1970s-style social disorder were Britain to suffer a similar crisis to the one that has hit Greece. Pointing to the recent violence in Athens, Paul McKeever said he was...

What OP suggests is after you have been dealt 2 aces... and won, you might say: "I am done with poker for the. I am leaving the table and am gonna enjoy the winnings"

You can interpret the OP differently... You have had a good day, you have had a few profitable trades, you have hit (and posiible exceeded) whatever daily target you might have. Now, should you put another trade on or is it better to call it a day?