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No it's not.

Gotcha.

How about something in Atlanta?

No... he said he made his money playing poker at the online tables when there were still a lot more fish to be fried. Playing TAG (tight aggressive) was an easy way to consistently make good bank back in the day; now you have to open it up and play LAG at higher stakes to do well.

Oanda is a bucket shop, and I suppose that's why I don't get any partial fills there ;) But it's been reliable for me, I honestly don't have any complaints. I only trade the EURUSD and it has a nice 0.9 spread and no commissions like IB. Overall Oanda is fairly reliable and a lot of the better...

I believe that's the free trial account, it's garbage from what I've heard. If you've got an account at IB you can request a real-time paper account.

Yes, I meant an 8 lot order. Partial fills can be positive and you may get filled at a better price. I've seen odd things happen like being filled for 10k, then 50k, and then the rest. As far as the paper trader, I used it at the beginning of this year and it seemed okay, but nothing is...

I've traded up to around 800k on IDEALPRO and average slippage was around 1 - 2 pips. Though I occasionally encountered partial fills.

Sierra Chart is $20/month with a nice forex feed. Great platform and I couldn't say enough good things about it. Alternatively you could sign up for a metatrader bucket shop account and use metatrader for free for charting purposes.

Python is not to be underestimated, and it isn't any less full blown than Java/C++, just a bit higher level. The dynamic/functional aspects make it a great language to do some neat things in. That being said, I've programmed a few trading related apps in python, and most vendors do not provide a...

Language wars are futile. Most people that just jump in and start coding produce horrible code in any language, because they lack foundational understanding. What I'd recommend doing is getting a basic computer science education and then you'll be able to adapt to whatever you end up wanting to...

For example, HSI futures start trading at 9:45am Hong Kong time, which is 9:45pm EST. I trade forex and a couple of future indexes.

Since I'm on an odd schedule, I will often trade the asian session starting around 10pm.

Regarding Linux. You can easily setup a nice cluster connected via 10 gigabit lan, should be fast enough, especially if your application is properly parallelized. You can also check out infiniband, infinipath, myrinet, etc. Infiniband currently provides best latency and bandwidth. I believe...

Love it.

Not a regular poster in this thread, but I do read it every now and then. I've got 1 24" and 2 22". The 22" are on after-market monitor stands and tilted to portrait mode. Everything works quite nicely. When I purchase monitors, I usually browse all the major online retailers. I'm not sure...

How many symbols are you monitoring? For example, tick by tick data for ES comes to around 40 - 50mb / day.

IQFeed, Windows only API. CQG Reuters In order from least expensive, to most expensive. You get what you pay for.

Zing!

Not C#, but this should get you up to speed. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm