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Southall, exactly!... and 1-gallon coke to top it up

Redneck_trader has listed all the important points. Remember, if you don't make maney on atrde simulator, you need to be exceptionally lucky to make money in live trading. ATR is Average True Range

Metastock is still one of the best pieces of software for a serious chartist in the industry. It is "mature", which means working without a hitch isn't sacrificed for weekly new features. It usually comes with Reuters data, wich is some of the faster data feeds but may be unsuitable for anyone...

Is it about the dangeours of low carb diet? I tried looking it up on the Web but had very limited success at finding out what the movie is about....

It also depends on how you define "making living". A manging director from a major investment bank is as likely to spend all the money he/she earns as a street sweeper working for the minimal wage.

The idea is from the movie "Supersize Me". Eye-opening to anyone who belives fast food is actually nutricious, digestible or made from natural ingridients.

... and if you profit, you are a profiteer?

Back to the topic of convincing the spouse... On of the most important parts is to manage expectations right. One thing you don't want is to be under preasure from your close ones to produce returns every day. So, explain you have a dream and you want to take a gap year in expectation to...

You get a quote delay because exchanges tend to charge for real-time quotes. If trades are executed with real-time prices, how is it fare if one of the game participants has real-time market prices while others don't? From the game point of view it's like looking into the future... If you...

EpiphanyTrading, I am guessing you are looking to use point-and-click or hot keys to intiate order entry. So, you'd start order entry and then have to type in the price of a limit or stop order anyway. Consider a platform that allows entering both the order type and the price with a single...

Ninjatrader, Amibroker, Neoticker, Tradestation... the list goes on and on. You need to have more detailed requirements in mind and do some research. http://www.elitetrader.com/so is a good start.

Now I understand what was the question in the opening post about. It wasn't about aggregating the information that comes from the Exchange so that the most up-to-date state of orders and position is effectively "cashed" locally in an easy-to-interpret state. If the question is about handling...

"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York gave up much of its power in high-pressure negotiations with the American International Group’s trading partners last year" "Just two days before the New York Fed paid A.I.G.’s partners 100 cents on the dollar to tear up their contracts with the...

For example, the broker will likely handle partial execution messages coming in the wrong order in such a way that you always get consistent information about the size that has already been executed and the average execution price. On the topic, as I understand you are working on the module...

Are you looking to route order to a broker or directly to the exchange? If yopu route orders to teh broker you'd expect the broker has handled the most difficult issues at the expense of latency...

An emploiyee often signs only an employment contract before they are in the first day of their employment. A contract says that an "emplyee handbook" is a part of teh contract but the employee may or may not receive this huge (sometomes 500 pages) document before they actually start. You can't...

Gabfly1, I think you receive substantial "flaming" in this thread because many may find it difficult to relate your question to their trading experience. The question implies that good trading signal is the key component (maybe 90%) of a trading system. "All equal" implies that improving the...

That's what they have in Afganistan... except farmers prefer poppies. Judge for yourself if it has made a peaceful prosperous nation.

I couldn't answer the question better than propseeker did. One thing to add is there are similar tax implications if the fund management company has offices inside and outside the US.

This question is probably more suited for NinjaTrader forums... but IB should be an easy answer. You can narrow down the list of brokers significantly if you check which of the brokers Ninja supports allow trading Hang Seng and Kospi futures at all. (Hint: not many.)