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Whoever she is, she must have once said something positive about OptionMonster. They milk that connection by sending the same 'promoted' Twitter message with her name in it at least once per week. Really annoying.

Speaking of indicators - and I'm not picking on anyone that uses them - but the figure in the lower right corner (follow link) jumped out at me. Lots of programming has already been done with the common stuff and the results are given away for free. The secret, I suppose, is figuring out an...

I think it will be a long time. There will be some action at the end of this week with the Nov 8 USDA report (Oct was skipped), but we have large crops and we're entering a period which historically is very quiet. Barring demand shocks, or South American weather scares, the grain markets...

Thanks. I may have asked as early as June or July but I'm certain I was told IB had no plans to add KC wheat (I thought it was odd not to have it once the CME takeover was final). Anyway, good to know that things have changed.

ETA: You CAN change the background color of the charts and the color of the gridlines (or make them invisible) so that's a big improvement to the charting feature. Unfortunately, you can't plot open interest and in two very liquid contracts - the nearby corn and natural gas - there were four to...

Comintel, I just downloaded the Firetip demo from Zumo. Yes, they have options chains but they are stacked (all calls at top of window followed by all puts) as opposed to Ps and Cs side-by-side. I did not see any IV or Greeks in the 'select columns to display' section and you cannot attach HV...

A calculator with 10 or 12 digits, because sometimes when you're punching in share counts or bushels of grain - or your net worth after joining EliteTrader -you really want to see the billions without having to remember, "did I drop three zeroes or six on that last input..." You'll see a...

I think IronBeam has also added 3rd party trading platforms fairly recently. They have Ninja, X-Trader and CQG (sounds like CQG is in-process). So if you're price sensitive and only trade futures and FOPs, and assuming they have good customer service, good trade accounting and financial...

http://www.futuresmag.com/author/michael-gross He penned a late October article. I believe he and Cordier parted ways in December 2012, about five months after Peregrine imploded. "Michael Gross is co-author of McGraw Hill’s “The Complete Guide to Option Selling.” Email him at...

Some more info. It's clear they're trying to attract potential or actual IB customers: http://www.generictrade.com/why/generic-trade-vs-interactive-brokers/ Also, a clarification to a point I made above. IronBeam might own Generic; they force you to do some digging to learn who's who...

The fixed price or first tier of IB's multi-tier structure is 85 cents per side for a futures or futures options contract, before exchange or NFA fees. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=commission&p=futures1#fixed So Generic is 26 cents cheaper after you've traded 227...

BarChart may be having some problems today. I pulled up a "Trader's Cheat Sheet" to look at some canned technical indicators, and the Z (December) commodities contracts had the word JANUARY in front of them. I sent them an email.

I'm not following the DBPhoenix comment about there being no gaps in futures, except for the weekend time gap. While price gaps in futures may be rare compared to individual stocks, they certainly occur, and that's not counting the 'artificial' gaps (for lack of a better word) that regularly...

We're thinking along the same lines - I thought two or three charts per page would do the trick, you thought four. I appreciate the additional comments and especially your confirmation that the templates work. So far I like most of what I see. The price seems fair for someone who's not a...

That's a good comparison document. I've been messing around with the platform too. As a position trader most of the time, the DOM and complex orders are not that important to me. Some discoveries and comments about other features: 1. For now only 1 chart per page can be displayed. You can...

An update of sorts to the original thread topic: CQG has announced a new price for QTrader -- www.cqg.com/Products/CQG-QTrader.aspx $40/mo and 25 cents per filled contract. That's better than the $65 to $90/mo that was being charged, but it's probably not a good choice for a high-volume...

Nope. They announced late last week that the October report is officially cxld. No S&D updates until early Nov.

Rocky, Keep up the due diligence. I glanced through the customer testimonials and at least three of them mention selling options (puts or bull put spreads). http://www.optionsanimal.com/student-success-stories/ First, you don't need to pay that kind of money to learn how to add option...

Re Velocity, that might be the old frying pan - fire thing. See below. http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278540&highlight=velocity

From the price section of the web site. Of course, you have to call to get the full story, and you're probably hoping the person that picks up the phone is the young woman with porn star breasts. http://www.optionsanimal.com/pricing/ On a serious note, I think most people would be better...